No Boxing Day Turkey

[Keith]

Thought I'd continue Amy's (now deleted) thread about how much birdlife you can see whilst riding your bike.

I set the rollers up in the kitchen so I could see the birds on and around the feeder in the garden Anything's worth doing to ease indoor training hours.

Birds seen included blue & great tits, collared dove, jay, house sparrows, dunnocks, blackbirds, song thrushes, coal tit, and a wren. It's very easy to see where the term pecking order comes from. The podium of pecking order, in my garden at least, goes;

3rd Robin
2nd Starling
1st Greater Spotted Woodpecker. Basically nobody f***s with the woodpeckers when they're feeding.

A good session on the rollers. 90 minutes soon went by.

[Antloony]

Spot on with the pecking order. We have the same in our garden, the woodpecker is a right bully and will terrorise any other birds attempting to feed.

We don't get dunnocks or song thrushes but squadrons of gold finches and long tailed tits and a few green finches. Great tits are a plenty but no coal tits. Costs me a small fortune in bird food but I enjoy watching them come and go.

Squirrels are a pain though.

[Marek]

Air rifle would be much more fun.

[Snoop Doug]

I've noticed a few jay birds lately too - stunning, well for a crow at least. And we get a green woodpecker and yep - the rest all seem to leg it when he is around. Herons feature highly too - no other birds like them and they get mobbed.

Occasionally we get a sparrowhawk enjoying dinner.

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[Amy]

[quote="Snoop Doug"]Occasionally we get a sparrowhawk enjoying dinner.

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[Snoop Doug]

the pic is for real - here's the same bird a few mins later, both pics by Mrs Snoop

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Living close by to Little Woodcote Estate and not far from Oaks Park we are spoiled for choice in the bird department. Always something interesting whizzing about - or stopping by

[Sylv]

Tour of Turkey stage ends have been good

Today's was a belter

[youtubewww]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dPHTMawyug[/youtubewww]

[Andrew G]

It was an amazing finish, I was so glad he won. Award for the coolest cyclist of the year...no rush, check where the bunch is, oops chains off flick it back on, right off we go again. Class act.

[Keith]

Arise zombie thread.....

Great stage finish though

[Paul H]

I think he thought that was it.

[Antloony]

Best finish to a race I've seen in a long time.