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Birds... New Worrying Behaviour.

  • 26-04-2020 04:49PM
    #1
    Sam Quentin
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    Trust me I'm not going crazy!?
    But has anyone noticed the birds are trying to feed on what's left in roof gutters,really pecking hard into them and also pecking hard into exposed timber on sheds and similar.
    I'm starting to put 2&2 together and I'm concerned that there isn't any food around any more for our feathered friends.


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  • #2
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    Sam Quentin wrote: »
    Trust me I'm not going crazy!?
    But has anyone noticed the birds are trying to feed on what's left in roof gutters,really pecking hard into them and also pecking hard into exposed timber on sheds and similar.
    I'm starting to put 2&2 together and I'm concerned that there isn't any food around any more for our feathered friends.
    It's the time of year for making nests.


  • #3
    RebelButtMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭RebelButtMunch


    Sam Quentin wrote: »
    Trust me I'm not going crazy!?
    But has anyone noticed the birds are trying to feed on what's left in roof gutters,really pecking hard into them and also pecking hard into exposed timber on sheds and similar.
    I'm starting to put 2&2 together and I'm concerned that there isn't any food around any more for our feathered friends.
    It's the time of year for making nests.


  • #4
    barney shamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 870 ✭✭✭barney shamrock


    Really thought this thread was going to be about something else when I saw the title...


  • #5
    Temptamperu
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    Birds arent real.


  • #6
    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    barney shamrock wrote: »
    Really thought this thread was going to be about something else when I saw the title...

    Take my bird, for instance...

    No, somebody please take her!


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  • #7
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    If anything, birds are prospering in this. Insect/bug count is high, due to the lack of greens been cut (only can confirm my area).


  • #8
    Kylta
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,457 ✭✭✭✭Kylta


    barney shamrock wrote: »
    Really thought this thread was going to be about something else when I saw the title...

    Me too, I was thinking about the tan bird in the bikini


  • #9
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    **** them, we've got bigger fish to fry at the moment.

    The Human Being takes precedence over all other creatures on this planet.


  • #10
    HeidiHeidi
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    I have a veritable biosphere growing in the gutter outside my bedroom, and the birds have always had a ball hammering into it - but the feckers won't take away the clumps of stuff they pull out, they just drop it all over the front patio :(

    Definitely more of it at this time of year, as others have said I assume it's because it's nesting season.


  • #11
    HeidiHeidi
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    **** them, we've got bigger fish to fry at the moment.

    The Human Being takes precedence over all other creatures on this planet.

    Charming :(


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  • #12
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    Charming :(
    It's the truth of nature.

    We're the top of the foodchain. We rule the roost, pardon the pun.


  • #13
    Leg End Reject
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    It's the truth of nature.

    We're the top of the foodchain. We rule the roost, pardon the pun.

    All creatures play a role in ecosystems, why do think there's concern about the decline of bees?

    We rely on animal life a lot more than they rely on us.

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  • #14
    Sam Quentin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,285 ✭✭✭Sam Quentin


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    Take my bird, for instance...

    No, somebody please take her!

    Am defo using this 😁


  • #15
    Auguste Comte
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    **** them, we've got bigger fish to fry at the moment.

    The Human Being takes precedence over all other creatures on this planet.

    That's probably not going to work out real well, long term.


  • #16
    peasant
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    We rule the roost, pardon the pun.


    Some bit of RNA in a spiky shell might disagree :D:D:D


  • #17
    Spanish Eyes
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    As others have said they are gathering stuff for nesting.

    It's great to watch alright, we throw out (brace yourselves) the hair left in the hairbrush every day, we are all losing it now lol. And it is scooped up big time. I also cut the tops off the dandelions (the seed bit) and leave them on the path, gone very quickly, whether that's the wind or the birds I don't know either!

    There is something going on in the bushes alright. It's great, especially this year with everything locked down, to see that nature copes and carrries on.

    Bits of moss are also carried away.


  • #18
    suicide_circus
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    all the cities and towns are empty so theres no discarded taco chips or kebabs so the poor birds are half starved


  • #19
    Harry Palmr
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    suicide_circus wrote: »
    all the cities and towns are empty so theres no discarded taco chips or kebabs so the poor birds are half starved

    Their diet is being improved no end. The gulls can rediscover the art of fishing and coastal foraging.


  • #20
    Spanish Eyes
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Their diet is being improved no end. The gulls can rediscover the art of fishing and coastal foraging.

    When we can, it will be safe to buy fish and chips in Howth so, and eat al fresco :p


  • #21
    Akrasia
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    I have a veritable biosphere growing in the gutter outside my bedroom, and the birds have always had a ball hammering into it - but the feckers won't take away the clumps of stuff they pull out, they just drop it all over the front patio :(

    Definitely more of it at this time of year, as others have said I assume it's because it's nesting season.

    If anyone is bored during the day, leave an old tennis ball in the garden on a patio or other hard surface and watch the birds come to it to try to take some of the fibers for their nest

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  • #22
    Akrasia
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    It's the truth of nature.

    We're the top of the foodchain. We rule the roost, pardon the pun.

    And yet we're all locked in our houses because we have no other way of fighting off an attack by an organism so small it can't even be seen by an optical microscope.

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  • #23
    begbysback
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    I feel it for the seagulls in and around Dublin docklands who usually survive by stealing food from office workers, poor fcukers don’t know what a fish actually looks like, they must be starvin


  • #24
    corner of hells
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    HeidiHeidi wrote: »
    I have a veritable biosphere growing in the gutter outside my bedroom, and the birds have always had a ball hammering into it - but the feckers won't take away the clumps of stuff they pull out, they just drop it all over the front patio :(

    Definitely more of it at this time of year, as others have said I assume it's because it's nesting season.

    I might be able to help.

    They are eating insects out of your biosphere.


  • #25
    Spanish Eyes
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    So many BIG bees around at the moment. Great to see.

    There was a fella who was on RTE for a long time, but he passed away recently and he was passionate about bees. Can't remember his name, but he was incredibly knowledgeable.

    Can anyone remember?


  • #26
    corner of hells
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    Spanish Eyes wrote: »
    So many BIG bees around at the moment. Great to see.

    There was a fella who was on RTE for a long time, but he passed away recently and he was passionate about bees. Can't remember his name, but he was incredibly knowledgeable.

    Can anyone remember?

    Bumblebee man from the Simpsons?


  • #27
    Spanish Eyes
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    corner of hells wrote: »
    Bumblebee man from the Simpsons?

    Ha no, he was on RTE occasionally, great chap. May he RIP. I'll think of his name eventually.


  • #28
    cj maxx
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    Sam Quentin wrote: »
    Trust me I'm not going crazy!?
    But has anyone noticed the birds are trying to feed on what's left in roof gutters,really pecking hard into them and also pecking hard into exposed timber on sheds and similar.
    I'm starting to put 2&2 together and I'm concerned that there isn't any food around any more for our feathered friends.
    I can hear them battering away at the spouting fom the garage where I am.
    I noticed today little blue egg shells on the ground.
    Hatching season?


  • #29
    Spanish Eyes
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    Was Philip McCabe the bee expert. He had a great accent and such a listenable voice.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/philip-mccabe-ireland-s-bee-man-1.3674382


  • #30
    Giraffe Box
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    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    Take my bird, for instance...

    No, somebody please take her!
    Sam Quentin wrote: »
    Am defo using this 😁


    Yeah you should. It hasn't been used since Henry Youngman back in the 1950's.
    So it'll defo sound new to most people!:D


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  • #31
    uch
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    I'll tell you one thing, they love blue mouldy burger buns, threw a couple on the shed earlier and there was a bird riot, even the cat was afraid

    22/25



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