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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAVE! XXXX

We've no cake but there's an egg custard in the fridge, we can stick a candle in that!

OKIDOKS BRO: youve got a decent bird at last so thats sex covered -heres the other 2 essentials.




happy birthday FFS...

Aura best la

Have a great day

Kept that quiet ya sneaky barstool!
Have a top cake day Dave

How special are you to get a greeting on the actual day?

Appi bufuffdi

Happy birthday!

Happy Birthday Dave! See you at the next UK Sisters date.

Awwww thanks folks we went to Howl Bar in town to celebrate on Friday, amazed to discover it actually is a rock bar, rock as in nosebleed thrash metal. Noisy but decent!

Steve, less sneaked in and more never got round to refilling in details when the new HL layout thingy occurred

Darling Charlie, oopsie the egg custard got too scoffed too quick to be worriting about candles we'll try harder on Tuesday

Happy B-Day

Well done, lad!

Oh, rather late I am ... however, congrats and all the best wishes of course to you ... ...

Happy belated Birthday to a fellow Ornithologist

Happy birthday !

Thanks folks

Si - there was a fooking ginormous bird of prey doing it's distant circling overland manouevres above us the other day - dunno what it was but it was very very high up and very visible so clearly huuuge. Love that s**t! last night the local wildlife was scattered by a motorbike being burned out on Burley Village Green

late birthday wishes sorry about that pal.

Belated Happy Birthday PD. It sounds like you had a good one

Planet Dave wrote: ↑11 Oct 2021, 13:53 Thanks folks

Si - there was a fooking ginormous bird of prey doing it's distant circling overland manouevres above us the other day - dunno what it was but it was very very high up and very visible so clearly huuuge. Love that s**t! last night the local wildlife was scattered by a motorbike being burned out on Burley Village Green

There's often a Sparrowhawk sneaking through the Trees in my part of the Park, so my Flock are always on a constant lookout but the local Pigeons are usually the first to give warning. Otherwise they usually have their heads cocked looking up towards the University Clock Tower (there's a Pair of Peregrines that made it their home many years since)....

Big Si wrote: ↑12 Oct 2021, 23:23

Planet Dave wrote: ↑11 Oct 2021, 13:53 Thanks folks

Si - there was a fooking ginormous bird of prey doing it's distant circling overland manouevres above us the other day - dunno what it was but it was very very high up and very visible so clearly huuuge. Love that s**t! last night the local wildlife was scattered by a motorbike being burned out on Burley Village Green

There's often a Sparrowhawk sneaking through the Trees in my part of the Park, so my Flock are always on a constant lookout but the local Pigeons are usually the first to give warning. Otherwise they usually have their heads cocked looking up towards the University Clock Tower (there's a Pair of Peregrines that made it their home many years since)....

Sorry to hijack the post but talking of things that fly, I've had a huge owl visit my garden lately. A Sparrow hawk often visits in the day but the owl in the evenings is a sight to behold.

Funnily enough our university clock tower has a pair of peregrines nesting up there too. And they're on webcam!

https://sustainability.leeds.ac.uk/our- ... eregrines/ (although there was a pigeon in the peregrine nest when I looked )

A most excellent hijack, indeed more of an evolution, no worries Laura owls are magnificent

Charlie reckons she's seen what may have been a peregrine falcon around, maybe one of the Uni dudes then, only up the road innit I saw something earlier in the year flying overthe trees that had a inwardly curved tail arc and maybe kinda zigzagy / layered patterns underneath its vast wingspan, closest I could find was maybe a buzzard, prolly too small for a red kite but they are abroad, or the cover of the Love album by The Cult the blue and coal tits that come to feed always have their heads on swivels but usually it's the magpies that're around and about causing that. We got a brief sight (and sound) of a woodpecker the other day too, which was awesome. And with that memory Charlie is off to dig out her Young Ornithologist badge

Planet Dave wrote: ↑13 Oct 2021, 10:23 And with that memory Charlie is off to dig out her Young Ornithologist badge

Yep found it, still have it! After all these years!



Awwwwwww brings back memories of going to Leighton Moss bird reserve with my dad as a little kid!
Not sure i'd qualify as a 'young' ornithologist anymore!

... lovely.