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Nov 17, 2023 9:36:38 GMT
Post by bjd on Nov 17, 2023 9:36:38 GMT
We finally heard some cranes flying south the other evening. I guess they are later than usual because the weather was mild. They do make a real racket as they fly so if it's during the day, you see people looking up. Geese make some noise too obviously.
Where is your balcony, Mark? Are you still in Sarajevo?
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Nov 17, 2023 10:02:08 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Nov 17, 2023 10:02:08 GMT
I haven't seen a flock that big in ages.
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Nov 17, 2023 11:34:33 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Nov 17, 2023 11:34:33 GMT
I have two balconies in our apartment because we're posh. One faces south, the other west. We are on the second floor of three floors with two apartments on each floor. There was a Fawlty Towers sketch about having a sea view. Well I have a river view if I do the same, i.e. crane my head out the window and peer between other buildings to see a sliver of the Rhine/Rhein. That doesn't answer your question bjd but I've not been in Sarajevo since the beginning of the summer. Mrs M is though to complete her contract until Christmas when she will join me and a daughter south of Bonn.
Mrs M has been recalled to her HQ because of spending so long abroad, there is a limit, but after 3 to 4 years we can slip away again. Theoretically. Moving back to Germany suits us for this period because we can support a daughter who has decided to go back to Uni/College for three years to upgrade her qualifications and into a new field. We can kill two birds with one stone, with having to return and the daughter issue, and the plan is when we go away again we will not need to return before Mrs M retires. We can maybe fit another three or so countries in before then.
The birds were heading south up the river. I'd seen a few flocks of them but that was the biggest.
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Dec 5, 2023 8:54:14 GMT
Post by mickthecactus on Dec 5, 2023 8:54:14 GMT
Spot the birds
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Dec 5, 2023 15:34:50 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 5, 2023 15:34:50 GMT
The shivering darlings! Great picture.
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Dec 5, 2023 19:59:01 GMT
Post by lugg on Dec 5, 2023 19:59:01 GMT
Great video K2 of the migration.
Mick I can see 4 but there may be more ?
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Dec 5, 2023 20:08:23 GMT
via mobile
Post by mickthecactus on Dec 5, 2023 20:08:23 GMT
Great video K2 of the migration. Mick I can see 4 but there may be more ? There are 5 lugg. 3 pigeons on the right and 2 blackbirds on the left.
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Dec 5, 2023 20:15:50 GMT
Post by lugg on Dec 5, 2023 20:15:50 GMT
Ah yes, I can see them now ...great photo Mick
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Dec 24, 2023 15:35:12 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 24, 2023 15:35:12 GMT
5:20 yesterday afternoon. This is a color photograph.
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Dec 24, 2023 15:42:46 GMT
Post by htmb on Dec 24, 2023 15:42:46 GMT
A perfect capture! Looks like something that should be included in a specialty collection and certainly doesn’t appear to be a color photo.
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Dec 24, 2023 16:28:12 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 24, 2023 16:28:12 GMT
I wonder how the birds decide the distance that they should stay from each other.
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Dec 24, 2023 18:00:53 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 24, 2023 18:00:53 GMT
Thank you so much, Htmb!
There were way more and closer together when I first saw them from upstairs. Came downstairs, picked up the phone & went to the gate to give a dirty look to whomever was out there texting with his truck chugging out fumes. Dirty looks work better here than in Oaxaca, as he immediately took off down the street. When he did, all the birds on the lines took off en masse and went wheeling away over the top of my house. And then, as I stood there, this chosen few came back & took up their positions.
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Dec 26, 2023 8:07:34 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2023 8:07:34 GMT
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Dec 26, 2023 16:04:34 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Dec 26, 2023 16:04:34 GMT
The bird in flight in that picture manages to look like one of those decals people put on glass doors to keep birds from flying into them.
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Dec 26, 2023 16:09:06 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Dec 26, 2023 16:09:06 GMT
Yes, I thought the bird in flight looked incredibly fake, but there must be a valid reason for those decal designs.
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Feb 18, 2024 17:45:02 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Feb 18, 2024 17:45:02 GMT
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Feb 18, 2024 17:59:03 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Feb 18, 2024 17:59:03 GMT
Superb pictures
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Feb 18, 2024 19:35:11 GMT
Post by lugg on Feb 18, 2024 19:35:11 GMT
Fab - starlings are so beautiful and not appreciated as much as they should be
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Feb 18, 2024 20:32:59 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2024 20:32:59 GMT
Darling loud, bold little bird!
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Feb 18, 2024 20:50:04 GMT
Post by cheerypeabrain on Feb 18, 2024 20:50:04 GMT
I love it when the starlings come chattering and whistling into the garden. Beautiful photos Kerouac.
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Feb 18, 2024 22:43:02 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Feb 18, 2024 22:43:02 GMT
This starling seemed very happy to pose for photos on a bicycle handlebar and patiently waited to fly away until I finished.
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Feb 19, 2024 6:58:22 GMT
Post by bjd on Feb 19, 2024 6:58:22 GMT
Great picture but I admit I am not a starling fan. When they come into the garden, there are usually about 40 of them at a time.
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Feb 19, 2024 10:28:47 GMT
Post by onlyMark on Feb 19, 2024 10:28:47 GMT
The magnificent and much maligned common pigeon. Source of sustenance, communication and leisure time activity -
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Feb 19, 2024 10:42:34 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Feb 19, 2024 10:42:34 GMT
My grandfather would wring the pigeons' necks and then we would pluck them with my grandmother. One of them woke up and flew out the window once, so he got his shotgun and took care of it on the neighbour's roof. (The pigeons had been bought at a pigeon farm rather than hunted.)
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Feb 23, 2024 16:30:30 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on Feb 23, 2024 16:30:30 GMT
Nice pigeon portrait, Mark.
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Apr 3, 2024 19:30:05 GMT
Post by lugg on Apr 3, 2024 19:30:05 GMT
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Apr 3, 2024 19:33:59 GMT
Post by lugg on Apr 3, 2024 19:33:59 GMT
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Apr 3, 2024 20:49:07 GMT
Post by kerouac2 on Apr 3, 2024 20:49:07 GMT
We called them sandpipers when I was in the United States. They always fascinated me since they would run away from each wave and yet be attracted to each new one.
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Apr 5, 2024 19:49:15 GMT
Post by lugg on Apr 5, 2024 19:49:15 GMT
We called them sandpipers when I was in the United States. Yes same species
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