Shouting at Springwatch

Ahhh... it's that time of year when we get to sit with Dad and chill out watching the antics of Kate Humble, Bill Oddie, Simon King and assorted other wildlife on Springwatch. Mostly this involves kipping on the back of the sofa, as baby birds still in the nest don't do a lot for us. But there is the occasional treat like tonight when they showed some pheasants displaying, calling and then sparring (or should that be "spurring"?)

Naturally we weren't having pheasants challenging us in our own living room, so they had to be told. This involved lots of bouncing around, standing on the nearest high point (Dad's shoulder and neck) and yelling at them to shut up. In Dad's ear-'ole.

And your point is?....

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Streaming or Screaming?

At this time of year, Dad is glued to Springwatch on BBC2; lots of footage of birds rearing babies in their nests, foxes, badgers, otters, the Island of Islay etc etc. The Beeb also lay on a service where they run webcams on various nests and you can stream the action live, 24/7 into your PC. So Mum decided to have a click around and see what was on offer.

She's been studying, so Haggis and I were crashed out on the put-me-up bed. Mum found a Jackdaw nest, where all was quiet, as 3 replete, sated baby Jackdaws were sleeping silently. Thinking there was something wrong with the sound track, Mum tweaked up the volume. Just then Mum-Jackdaw came back and the chicks awoke and started such a catawauling crescendo of raucous noise, H and I were up, leppin' off the bed and charging down the stairs a-woofing and carrying on, with Mum yelling "Oy! Silly dogs!, It's only me and the PC! It's on here!".

Tonight had us glued to the TV downstairs,as a bit of footage of foxes, making that all-too-familiar noise that usually has us going tearing down the garden , this time has us racing round the living room to find where the foxes are hiding. Today's pics show me glued to Bill Oddie and Kate Humble, with the second pic showing a fox in a garden. In this case it's about to be whacked by a tawny owl on it's rump.

Entertainment.

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