Songbirds have gone
 

This is the second day in a row when the air is spookily silent around here.
There are usually lots of birds in the trees at the front and back of my flat.
For two days I have seen very few and the ones I have seen aren't singing.

It is unsettling - the sort of phenomenon you get just before an earthquake.

Has anyone else noticed this where you live?

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Turn your hearing aid on you daft thing that will make a difference.

;)

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I am being serious here
There have been more mini dogfights too.
It seems like birds and animals are feeling tension about something

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There are quite a few Kestrels and Sparrow Hawks about Margaret, more than usual, maybe that's keeping them quiet

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Havn't noticed any difference to the ducks, they are still happily quacking away to each other.

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The roosters on the allotments were calling at dawn as usual, but I am still missing the cheeping of the wild ones.

Maybe it is the heaviness in the air - we need a good lightening storm.

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After July most birds go silent, we still have the same number of sparrows and blackbirds visit the garden, but they don't make as much noise. We have shallow water dishes and a patch of dry earth for them to bathe in, the sparows spent ages yesterday giving themselves a bath.
In spring they squabble like heck, but the breeding seasons over.

Retlaw.

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So all those henpecked males have shut up as they were told :D
....thanks for the explanation - feel less anxious myself now

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That's because they're Quackers kate:D

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LOL .. maybe .. but they give me hours of entertainment with their funny little antics.

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Could explain why I've been quiet for years!!:hehetable

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Me too. Just been to watch them with my nephew.

(I'd better not mention we also fed them, for fear of being told off for giving them the wrong food.):rolleyes:

I was still awake for today's dawn chorus, and down here it seemed fairly normal, though as was pointed out, not quiet as manic, or as loud as in the springtime.

I used to accuse my Italian friend's grandmother for the declining numbers of our birds. At least those that migrate south in the winter, and risk being caught and baked in a pie by all those latin nonnas.:D

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Everything as normal this morning [bird wise].
Parrots,lorikeets,honey eaters,magpies ,noisey miner birds,piping shrikes galahs,sulphur crested cockatoos ,cockateels,all up early and making plenty of noise.
The pelicans were a bit quiet though!:)

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Not quite right Margaret, its the males who select the pecking order, put out some of those fat balls and watch who gets first peck, females have to get out of the way when the boss turns up as do the young males.
Male sparrows have a black throat.

Over to you.

Retlaw

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So am I, as has been pointed out if you are up early enough for the Dawn chorus all seems well.
:tongueout

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Where I live the 'dawn chorus' is a dozen roosters.
I have only seen one wild bird today -
it must be the predatory birds about that makes them hide (see Jaysay's post)

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Read it, digested it, didn't panic about it, already knew what wakes me up about 5.30 each morning, or was it an 'Earthquake'?

Get real, the birds thankfully are still with us.
:cool:

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5-30, your getting up late these days Less :D:D

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And they taste soooo good;):D

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Don't be mean ... :p Actually, never tasted it.

I expect the dogs are getting bad tempered due to the lack of dog pooh in your street Margaret … sniffing each other’s is one of their great pastimes whilst out on a walk.
Also, expect (during the breeding season) your birds have to twitter louder to be heard above the mini bikes, so their silence is more noticeable now.

It is a fact though, that animals do have better senses than ourselves, and could sense dangers before us mere Human Beings. Look at this … I can google to.:D

Can Animals Predict Disaster? - Introduction | Nature

Have noticed a profusion of cabbage whites flying around in pairs at the moment, still they are very quite with their love making, so wouldn’t notice if they calmed down.

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Animals are more sensative than humans ... both in the sense that some of their senses are more accute .... that pile of dogshlt contains a lot of info for a dog .... and in the sense that they (may) have more senses (a lot of "sense" in this, eh) Cattle "predict" storms .... ahead of active weather they will group in the most sheltered part of the field and put thier backs to the oncoming storm etc .... there are lots of examples .... cancer sniffing dogs ..........................

And what kind of wine would you like with your duck? May I suggest something that goes well with the odd bits of lead shot:D:D:D

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Animals can predict disaster kate:confused::confused: Ha, looks like they have even sussed out Gordan then:D