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got these little cuties nesting on my alarm box next to my bog window.

they don't half make a din when they see their mam coming with food, and they've crapped all over the place.

was watching them this morning getting ready for a flight - flapping their little wings like mad in the nest, jumping up & down!
there was 3 of them but can only see 2 now - there's loads of cats around here waiting for them to crouton up.

dunno what make they are, never been much good with birds me

Swallow....gulp


Had one flew through the back door ,through the kitchen and into the living room (lounge if yer posh)a few weeks back,managed to catch it on the window sill ,it flew away ok when i released it ootside.

get rid before they sh1t on your pride n joy!

bikerpiker wrote:Swallow....gulp


Had one flew through the back door ,through the kitchen and into the living room (lounge if yer posh)a few weeks back,managed to catch it on the window sill ,it flew away ok when i released it ootside.

yes they are swallows - just been watching them having a fly around
one of the babies got in the bathroom the other day (need the window open when ive been in there lol)
quite naturey here - i live right next to a forest / reserve thing and there's foxes, hedgehogs, loads of different birds, bats etc... seen some mega massive dragonflies hovering over my pond as well, huge fkers lol, about 8" long!
we got invaded by hundreds of frogs not long ago, breeding in my pond, shitloads of em, all rivetting at night it's like being in the bleedin jungle

Me too but Housemartins are Pests. They swoop up the face of the walls and crap all over the place (caught one on the cheek the other day!) and they make a right din. Were between two nests and they had one under our eaves. But these things are protected so you can only get rid of the nest during the winter months when vacant. We prefer the yellow breasted blue tits that nest in (and pop more chicks out of) oor bird house.

Rivettin' frogs, you should count yourself lucky, we've got midwife frogs, they 'beep', I kid you not, it sounds like an electronic beep. First time I heard them I wondered if I'd left something on! Then when you get a few of the little buggers together they make a right din. All bloody night! I end up gathering them up in a box and ferrying them down the road a few miles and putting them in a field. I think they've made an apperance in the south of England someone said. I've got a pic somewhere, if I can load it on, but don't know how. We get a fair few swallows - they are called 'hirondelles', they fly in and out of my workshop crappin' over everything. Especially the honda,(do they know something?). There's also a black and yellow snake that can be found under things in the garden sometimes, I found my ct chewing on something one day, and it turned out to be this 'coeur de levre' i think it's called, it was about a metre long, and pretty thick, it's a good job it wasn't warm or tiddles would have been lunch!

I don't know why, I expected someone to shoot it! Red one too, makes a change from those furry grey rats. Don't see greys over here, they shoot everything.

We've got birds nesting in every part of the house and garage, the feckers are everywhere.

Twinpotter wrote: We prefer the yellow breasted blue tits that nest in (and pop more chicks out of) oor bird house.

Found this wee guy outside the front door last year. Popped him back in the nest, hope he survived OK.


I don't have giant hands before the smart butt comments start.

FirestormMike wrote:

cupasoop wrote: I don't have giant hands before the smart butt comments start.

Just a tiny wee body.

Just glad you didn't say boaby

Good wee video Mike ,well done ,i liked that

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always loved that tune since valerie singleton days - we used to do a metal version of that and the hamlet cigar tune with me old band the fornicators

at my old house we used to get loads of squiggles.
one time i was outside and i kept hearing a bang every few minutes....
it was a squirrel next door lifting the lid up on the bird's nut box and pinching the food inside.
it kept running back along the fence to the same place, eating it like the one in your vid, then going back for another!

i was in delamere forest once with a gf looking for somewhere for a crafty shag, when i noticed a bunch of red squirrels eating mushrooms - they were picking them and holding them like giant pizzas!
i picked one and tempted one up, grabbed it and the little fker sunk it's teeth in me finger and locked on!!!
aaaagh said i.
i managed to pry it loose and it pulled what looked like a piece of raw bacon out of my fingertip
little bastid. i sh1t meself, thought i'd got rabies or sumat

yeah, but did you get what you went for?

Although that looks like a mean 'dude' looking bird

futterbingers wrote:yeah, but did you get what you went for?

got nettled to crouton & about twenty fkin horsefly bites on me butt lol, fkt it off as a bad idea and went and got a room instead - it was like ere luv, suck the poison out of this

you da man!