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Some film footage of some of the birds that come to dine on the windowsill of my tiny top-floor flat in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Featuring beautiful starling hooligans, a feather weight collared dove boxer with a strong left hook, puffed up corvids, a wood pigeon doing his courtship dance and a feisty male and female blackbird emboldened by the prospect of cold, green grapes.

Starlings are amazing mimics. They learn to mimic the sounds of their environment. This is Stanley the starling. He’s been visiting my windowsill for over 3 years now and during those three years I have been fascinated to hear his repertoire develop. In this film you will hear Stanley mimicking a variety of other birds as well as my voice (saying something that sounds like “My pig sweats”), my ...

A recording of the dawn chorus outside my flat. Please note: The film footage was recorded at a different time that the audio. The birds featured in the film are a few of the beauties that come to dine on my windowsill.

I started feeding the birds on the windowsill of my tiny 3rd floor flat during lockdown in 2020. I now have a flock of regulars who come to dine every day and feel so lucky that I am able to observe (and film) the birds in such close proximity. Their behavior and the way it changes with the seasons is fascinating. I have learned a lot. These birds are all individuals with distinct personalities...

I started feeding the birds on the windowsill of my tiny 3rd floor flat during lockdown in 2020. I now have a flock of regulars who come to dine every day and feel so lucky that I am able to observe (and film) the birds in such close proximity. Their behaviour and the way it changes with the seasons is fascinating. I have learned a lot. These birds are all individuals with distinct personalitie...

I started feeding the birds on the windowsill of my tiny 3rd floor flat during lockdown in 2020. I now have a flock of regulars who come to dine every day and feel so lucky that I am able to observe (and film) the birds in such close proximity. Their behaviour and the way it changes with the seasons is fascinating. I have learned a lot. These birds are all individuals with distinct personalitie...

I started feeding the birds on the windowsill of my tiny 3rd floor flat during lockdown in 2020. I now have a flock of regulars who come to dine every day and feel so lucky that I am able to observe (and film) the birds in such close proximity. Their behaviour and the way it changes with the seasons is fascinating. I have learned a lot. These birds are all individuals with distinct personalitie...

I started feeding the birds on the windowsill of my tiny 3rd floor flat during lockdown in 2020. I now have a flock of regulars who come to dine every day and feel so lucky that I am able to observe (and film) the birds in such close proximity. Their behaviour and the way it changes with the seasons is fascinating. I have learned a lot. These birds are all individuals with distinct personalitie...

Starlings are now on the red list of endangered species. Here's a short film of my precious mini murmuration.

Every day the starlings come to my windowsill to dine, swear, glitter, re-arrange the 'bird crockery' and jump on the bigger birds backs

If you like 'slow tv', here I offer you just over 2 minutes of Ivan the wood pigeon staring at Little Brown Betty, my favorite (and Elvis's) and most sociable female blackbird...there are no explosions, cliff hangers or plot twists, just two birds staring at each other with a poignant soundtrack that suggest something bad is going to happen

Elvis and the starlings, 2

Elvis the wood pigeon announces the arrival of dawn, 2

Making sunday dinner for Elvis the wood pigeon

Elvis, King Henry & the art of mindfulness

The Art Of Kulning

The Alchemist

The Elwick Mill Dragon, 2

The Elwick Mill Dragon

Shapinsay Community Members talk about Elwick Mill's future

2014 baking competition

seasoned

someone should tell her mother she's taking drugs

baking comp 2013

A Complicated Way Of Being Ignored. The Grist poets at Ted Hughes festival 2012

Halifax eurovision-style baking competition 2012 (3).wmv

rowing and prancing at Rhubarb

save tha last sofa dance for me

Chaz T live.wmv