I thought I was start a new thread dedicated to our beautiful wee Dunnocks and hope you will share all your fabulous Dunnock pics aswell. These wee birds don't get the credit they deserve and are often mistaken for allsorts of other birds.
Please feel free to add your pics
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
I know a few women like that ...
Dunnocks have some unsavoury (to us) sexual habits. The male will peck at the cloaca of the female in order to remove the sperm of a previous male. I guess it's all about wanting to pass on their genes above another male.
Here's a not very good photo of it happening.
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Tony
My Flickr Photostream
Linda257 said:Ain't nature fascinating!
Yes, it is.
Whoever the father is they are still going to feed it. Something we can hopefully look forward to in a few months
I did say the poor wee dunnock was a very underrated bird, well guilty as charged, or have I stabbed myself in the foot to coin the phrase.
I took an age to find a photo of a wee dunnock, and even more challenging there were regular dunnock visits to the garden, but the little blighters were staying out of the rain, yes, its been raining all day here, but of course, that's no surprise.
So I couldn't get a piccie of a wee dunnock!
They were challenging me..... was it judgement day I ask myself?
Holly Molly, it is judgement day!
So it was search my photo library and I found one, hiding under the chimera!
I won't even think what could have been going on under the chimera after reading someone's post.... I'm toooooo, well, you know....
Saved...
Mike
Flickr: Peak Rambler
Mines from today...in the dry and sunny intervals lol
Linda257 said:Every little helps.....therse always tomorrow Mike!......Rain again!!!.....surely no!!! Thanks fir your addition ;-)
Tomorrow is supposed to be good, and guess what, more of that retirement outing stuff again!
That white mass of cloud to the south of the UK, is the rain and its heading north, with that Sahara sand!
Thank goodness for the Sahara its only a once a year thing, or they'd be running out of sand!