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Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
edited May 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
So I'm sitting here in the computer lab in college, and I'm not getting anything done cos it's such a fucking beautiful day outside, and I keep getting distracted by the birds flying and poking around outside. It's mesmerising. :)

Anyone else into birdwatching? I used to do it a lot as a kid, cos my entire family's really into it, but I kinda grew out of it around 10 years ago. But right now, I'm looking outside, and wondering if there's anything more beautiful than watching a pied wagtail just hovering around.

*prepares for onslaught of "birdwatching = girlwatching" puns*
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Not into them, but I enjoy taking pics of them... here's some I took a few weeks ago at Stephens green :)

    http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v287/18/125/648930914/n648930914_1252321_778.jpg

    http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v287/18/125/648930914/n648930914_1252329_3238.jpg

    http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v287/18/125/648930914/n648930914_1252331_3861.jpg
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Not into them, but I enjoy taking pics of them... here's some I took a few weeks ago at Stephens green :)

    http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v287/18/125/648930914/n648930914_1252321_778.jpg

    http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v287/18/125/648930914/n648930914_1252329_3238.jpg

    http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v287/18/125/648930914/n648930914_1252331_3861.jpg

    I love those pics. :)

    For me, that's nature at its most beautiful. There's something so free about birds... so energetic, yet they never really seem to move faster than they have to...

    I need sleep. :o

    I also totally expected a good slagging over how absolutely innocent and non-cynical this thread is. :p
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    I love those pics. :)

    For me, that's nature at its most beautiful. There's something so free about birds... so energetic, yet they never really seem to move faster than they have to...

    I need sleep. : o

    I also totally expected a good slagging over how absolutely innocent and non-cynical this thread is. : p
    :D well generally I don't like anything that's smaller than me and moves... especially if it has the capability to fly :eek: although I did have fun taking those pics... it was sooo relaxing.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    So I'm sitting here in the computer lab in college, and I'm not getting anything done cos it's such a fucking beautiful day outside, and I keep getting distracted by the birds flying and poking around outside. It's mesmerising. :)

    Anyone else into birdwatching? I used to do it a lot as a kid, cos my entire family's really into it, but I kinda grew out of it around 10 years ago. But right now, I'm looking outside, and wondering if there's anything more beautiful than watching a pied wagtail just hovering around.

    *prepares for onslaught of "birdwatching = girlwatching" puns*
    :D pied wag tail. Birds hav funny names :p

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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :D well generally I don't like anything that's smaller than me and moves... especially if it has the capability to fly :eek: although I did have fun taking those pics... it was sooo relaxing.

    I know what you mean. I'm taking my own thread slightly off-topic here, but a few months ago, me and a friend were wandering around the old Maynooth campus, and we found this little garden... just perfectly tended to, flowers everywhere, and trees that looked like they were made to have people reading books under them. So we went in and had a look around, and found a group of squirrels, just poking around the place. We sat there for about half an hour, just taking pictures of everything that caught our eye.

    And missed an English lecture to do it. :)
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    :D pied wag tail. Birds hav funny names :p

    Bouncing tits: http://images.vunet.org/Bouncing_Tits.gif

    Those are some Great Tits!

    :D

    Note: they're actually Blue Tits. :p
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    I know what you mean. I'm taking my own thread slightly off-topic here, but a few months ago, me and a friend were wandering around the old Maynooth campus, and we found this little garden... just perfectly tended to, flowers everywhere, and trees that looked like they were made to have people reading books under them. So we went in and had a look around, and found a group of squirrels, just poking around the place. We sat there for about half an hour, just taking pictures of everything that caught our eye.

    And missed an English lecture to do it. :)
    :) It's lovely, I must do that more often. It was a great hangover cure too.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    :) It's lovely, I must do that more often. It was a great hangover cure too.

    If only we got more of a summer to enjoy days like that. Student gripe: summer always happens when exams are on. :p
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    If only we got more of a summer to enjoy days like that. Student gripe: summer always happens when exams are on. :p
    but then in the winter you get the pretty little robins and stuff :)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    but then in the winter you get the pretty little robins and stuff :)

    I fear if Hitch gets excited about Blue Tits, the robin red breast will be the death of this thread. :p

    Also: you're htting 29,000 posts. :eek: Congrats! :D
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  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    I fear if Hitch gets excited about Blue Tits, the robin red breast will be the death of this thread. :p

    Also: you're htting 29,000 posts. :eek: Congrats! :D
    Innuendo overload!!!
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    I fear if Hitch gets excited about Blue Tits, the robin red breast will be the death of this thread. :p

    Also: you're htting 29,000 posts. :eek: Congrats! :D
    :) thank you... and I'm going to waste that milestone in pointing out that it doesn't seem to take much to get hitch going these days :D
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    Innuendo overload!!!

    "Look at those tits, right near the pussywillow!"

    Nature is great. :D
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  • Hitch-HikerHitch-Hiker Posts: 2,873
    Any post with my name in it is not a waste!

    Back on topic though. I love the crow family. Where I used to live there was a samll wooded area behind my house where rooks and ravens and such nested. Occasionally babies would fall into our back garden when learning to fly. We had quite a few temporary pet rooks over the years :)
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Hitch-Hiker wrote:
    Any post with my name in it is not a waste!

    Back on topic though. I love the crow family. Where I used to live there was a samll wooded area behind my house where rooks and ravens and such nested. Occasionally babies would fall into our back garden when learning to fly. We had quite a few temporary pet rooks over the years :)

    We used to have a pet budgie. When I was about... 5, I think, it got some disease that was slowly killing it. :( The night I found out about it, three other budgies flew into our back garden! :eek: And we kept one as a pet, first as a companion for the other one, and then on its own. :)

    It was so weird to have THREE budgies just fly in randomly like that.
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  • Heineken HelenHeineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    We used to have a pet budgie. When I was about... 5, I think, it got some disease that was slowly killing it. :( The night I found out about it, three other budgies flew into our back garden! :eek: And we kept one as a pet, first as a companion for the other one, and then on its own. :)

    It was so weird to have THREE budgies just fly in randomly like that.
    Is that what your parents told you happened? :D awww... cute story!
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    Is that what your parents told you happened? :D awww... cute story!

    No, I saw all that myself. :) It's one of those memories that never really faded.
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  • Slip KidSlip Kid Posts: 1,175
    i like birdwatching
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    With a name like, Tybird.....don't think that I might do a little birdwatching....:D...seriously, very much into the birding thing. I have probably seen around 300 species in the wild this calendar year....two weeks in Costa Rica accounted for 226 of those species. :cool:
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  • electronblueelectronblue WPB Florida Posts: 3,460
    birds...~

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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    We used to have a pet budgie. When I was about... 5, I think, it got some disease that was slowly killing it. :( The night I found out about it, three other budgies flew into our back garden! :eek: And we kept one as a pet, first as a companion for the other one, and then on its own. :)

    It was so weird to have THREE budgies just fly in randomly like that.


    Budgies will inherit the earth. I had a budgie called Barney. He was a genius, and my best friend.
  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    eddie's Tone rocks wrote:
    birds...~

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    Great pics. :)
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    Budgies will inherit the earth. I had a budgie called Barney. He was a genius, and my best friend.

    They're excellent beasts. Whenever I get off my ass and move out of the family house, I'm gonna get another budgie.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    eddie's Tone rocks wrote:
    birds...~

    <3<3<3

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    White Ibis and Eurasian-Collared Doves...nice :cool:
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  • rebornFixerrebornFixer Posts: 4,901
    Absolutely ... I've done it since I was a kid as well, and have started up again recently, in earnest. I spent roughly half of my recent trip to the Pacific side of Mexico trying to ID seabirds.

    The frigatebirds and boobies were easy ... The petrels and terns, not so much.
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