Jays impersonating buzzards

[Neal 1,929]

I stopped using the app for a while as I found it was making a few mistakes. In my area it was mainly thinking that blackbirds were something else as their call is a bit "jazz."

However, I still use it a lot for those times when you find yourself hearing something you can't remember.

[comanche 3,263]

On 16/04/2025 at 18:11, pesky1972 said:

When I was a kid we had a telephone in the house identical to the one in the photo. Those of a certain age will remember the trill sort of tone it made rather than the bell sound of other phones. Anyway, my mum used to do her nut as a starling would sit on the fence outside the kitchen window mimicking the sound of that phone, and she’d run off to answer it.

"Trim phone"- l remember them,  and the starlings copying it!

[Greyman 31,211]

Myrna birds and starlings are the same family I think hence the mimicking behaviour 

[Bosun11 537]

Will keep my ears out for that.

Round here we have plenty of both Buzzards and Jay's. The buzzards are a nightmare on the leverets in the area, and need culling. The Jay's, although prolific, put down more trees than tree rats could ever do....

[tatsblisters 10,927]

8 hours ago, Bosun11 said:

Will keep my ears out for that.

Round here we have plenty of both Buzzards and Jay's. The buzzards are a nightmare on the leverets in the area, and need culling. The Jay's, although prolific, put down more trees than tree rats could ever do....

I believe buzzards have a detrimental effect on the brown hare population and the buzzard is not as common around me these days though i am seeing more hare's now.