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Post by WildlifePaul on Mar 4, 2019 21:26:54 GMT
I don't know if anyone as ever seen this its a 20 minute documentary made about blue tits am guessing many years ago this was made.
However very interesting watch, I am going to make it a sticky page on here.
New youtube link, Old one was removed by the uploader.
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Post by natalie on Mar 4, 2019 22:34:27 GMT
Thank you wildlifepaul I must give this a watch
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Post by Deleted on Mar 5, 2019 9:24:49 GMT
I think this was made and broadcast in 1974. It was made by Anglia TV and was one of the "Survival" wildlife series. It was called "Inside Story" but may have had a different broadcast title.
At that time I was 14 and had been building nestboxes for blue tits and sparrows for 4 years. I remember thinking it was the most magical thing I had ever seen on TV. After watching this, I tried sticking a "backless" nestbox to our families garage window with putty but got no takers!
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Post by blueeyedchick on Mar 5, 2019 9:52:54 GMT
Sometimes it's good to look back to see how far we have come when it comes to us helping bird survival. More people feed and provide boxes now than every before and yet some of our species are still in decline. I remember when I was young we could only buy 'Swoop' bird food and my Mum hung a piece of beef suet on the washing line for the Blue Tits. My Dad made a box or two from old off cuts which were fixed to a pole & the other in our apple tree. We have a long road in front of us to reach our destination.  Nice little find Paul & interesting account Benn. |
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Post by WildlifePaul on Mar 5, 2019 11:59:01 GMT
Interesting Benn, I knew was old by the quality of it and the talking in it just sounded like an old film. However didn't think it be that old 16 years before I was born I suddenly feel younger, Hitting 29 this year was depressing me 1 year till 30 etc.   Wonder how it made it on youtube after all those years?  Just thought I'd post it anyway because I found it an interesting watch!  |
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Post by Ann70 on Mar 5, 2019 15:04:47 GMT
I've enjoyed watching, i so remember seeing the milk tops frozen and raised up and the tops spilt open by the bluetits.
i was 20 in 1974, at 29 you are a spring chicken Paul.
im home early enough today the first time for a week so whether i will see anything remains to be seen, so far only the pr on the feeders
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 8:16:40 GMT
Interesting Benn, I knew was old by the quality of it and the talking in it just sounded like an old film. However didn't think it be that old 16 years before I was born I suddenly feel younger, Hitting 29 this year was depressing me 1 year till 30 etc. Wonder how it made it on youtube after all those years? Just thought I'd post it anyway because I found it an interesting watch! You are still a spring chicken Paul. My thirties were probably the best times of my life. Earning really good money for the first time, getting married, new house, daughter born and great holidays. Survival made some brilliant award winning wildlife documentaries in those days. They were the first ones to follow the migration of Snow geese using a powered hang glider. They won countless awards over the years. This was pre Attenborough. Great you found it though. Brought back memories. |
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Post by YorksherLass on Mar 6, 2019 11:25:51 GMT
 Paul for that video, I'll watch it later as I'm behind with housework - spent all day yesterday demolishing all the ivy on a fence & I've still got to go and tidy up the fence now before painting it. Nothing outside today as it's bucketing it down, but just before I go - you're all spring chickens compared to me, as I was 30 in 1974. That age & my 40's were the best ones for me, then the 50's. Things started going downhill in my mid sixties, no longer being able to do things as much or as quickly as I used to do. 
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Post by WildlifePaul on Apr 28, 2019 11:22:11 GMT
Noticed the uploader removed the video, Thankfully I have found it again uploaded by a different youtube channel.
I have edited the new link into the first post so its watchable again.
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Post by tommyg1 on Jan 24, 2020 15:10:59 GMT
There is also a book: Window into a nest written by Flanagan and Morris, 1975. The nestbox is situated to a window from a house in Oxfordshire. The writers were watching the tits behind black curtains. Time flies..now we have webcams for watching..
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Nice little find Paul & interesting account Benn.
Paul for that video, I'll watch it later as I'm behind with housework - spent all day yesterday demolishing all the ivy on a fence & I've still got to go and tidy up the fence now before painting it. Nothing outside today as it's bucketing it down, but just before I go - you're all spring chickens compared to me, as I was 30 in 1974. That age & my 40's were the best ones for me, then the 50's. Things started going downhill in my mid sixties, no longer being able to do things as much or as quickly as I used to do. 