Lovely photo @Hostafan1, beautiful bird! Bit suburban for them here but the red kites certainly make all the birds scatter, including the jays and not much will make them move.
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Glad I'm not the only one missing the birds. We have a couple of blue tits and goldfinches just in the last few days, but the blackbirds, robins and sparrows don't seem to be around. I must shamefully admit though, we don't get up early so maybe they've visited while we're still fast asleep!
I have been looking all season and there are very few birds in my St Albans green suburban garden. Not like this at all last year. I have a put out a bird feeder about six weeks ago, with nuts, fat balls and seeds and the only thing I see on this is one magpie. There is one robin nest only. we do get the occasional pigeon.
I don't hear the same racket at dawn and dusk anymore.
Last year I had coal tits, blue tits, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes, wrens and probably more. We have red kites overhead and I am wondering if this is the cause, also we have acquired two cats Oscar and Oddball (who don't hunt) I wonder if this may be the cause? I have a friend with cats and her bird table is always active.
Still getting 20+ Goldfinches coming to the feeders everyday, adults bringing in lots of youngsters for a feed and a drink, sometimes we get the odd adult and juvenile Greenfinch mixed in with them, but only if we are lucky.
Unfortunately we don't get any Blue, Coal or Great Tits visiting, even though they are close by, because I think the feeders are too exposed ( out in the open ) but it doesn't bother the Goldies or the Greenies.
These are from this morning.
and there is always a Collard Dove lurking, waiting to pick up any fallen seed.
A pair of perigrine falcons over at 4pm yesterday. Could set your watch by them
The last of the swallows ready to fledge. We have had more than we could count this year but they are getting cheeky and dive bomb us if we go near them!
Crows are our bug, they really can take over!
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
I must admit when I saw this thread title, I was reminded of the Scottish footballer, and serial womaniser, Frank McAvennie, and the way all the impressionists 'carried him off' with the catchphrase 'where's awrra birds?' .... Plenty of sparrows and dunnocks here, and the blue, great and coal tits are also well in evidence. Robin has also been present. Lovely pix as always Sheps - those two species are thin on the ground here, or on the feeders anyway, but there'll be plenty in the adjacent NT garden a few hundred yards away
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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" well you go and buy better feed then"
I have a put out a bird feeder about six weeks ago, with nuts, fat balls and seeds and the only thing I see on this is one magpie. There is one robin nest only. we do get the occasional pigeon.
I don't hear the same racket at dawn and dusk anymore.
Last year I had coal tits, blue tits, sparrows, blackbirds, thrushes, wrens and probably more.
We have red kites overhead and I am wondering if this is the cause, also we have acquired two cats Oscar and Oddball (who don't hunt) I wonder if this may be the cause?
I have a friend with cats and her bird table is always active.
Opinions?
Unfortunately we don't get any Blue, Coal or Great Tits visiting, even though they are close by, because I think the feeders are too exposed ( out in the open ) but it doesn't bother the Goldies or the Greenies.
These are from this morning.
and there is always a Collard Dove lurking, waiting to pick up any fallen seed.
The last of the swallows ready to fledge. We have had more than we could count this year but they are getting cheeky and dive bomb us if we go near them!
Crows are our bug, they really can take over!
A A Milne
Even the crows are keeping to themselves!
Plenty of sparrows and dunnocks here, and the blue, great and coal tits are also well in evidence. Robin has also been present.
Lovely pix as always Sheps - those two species are thin on the ground here, or on the feeders anyway, but there'll be plenty in the adjacent NT garden a few hundred yards away
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...