I've just read @jamesholt's posts re the hummingbird. How sad. I think that [meat for red kites] might be a dripping roast @TheGreenMan. Literally! I keep meaning to go to Argaty to see them. Only about an hour away from me, with a good tail wind...
The buzzards were out yesterday here - could just pick them out through the clouds. I got a pic but I really need one of those high falutin' cameras to get them. Mine has a 36x zoom, but you can't get a focus on them well enough.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've just read @jamesholt's posts re the hummingbird. How sad. I think that [meat for red kites] might be a dripping roast @TheGreenMan. Literally! I keep meaning to go to Argaty to see them. Only about an hour away from me, with a good tail wind...
The buzzards were out yesterday here - could just pick them out through the clouds. I got a pic but I really need one of those high falutin' cameras to get them. Mine has a 36x zoom, but you can't get a focus on them well enough.
it's ok. There are humming birds in Sussex now. A very clever, multi talented published author has identified them in her garden. Unfortunately they were " robbing all the nectar" from her flowers and depriving HER bees.
Sparrow hawks, I really wish they would nest just a little bit closer to my berry bushes, I might actually manage to get some berries that way. (they nest in the windbreak)
Song thrushes have a snail stone by our front gate which is always fun to go and count the shells by.
I don't feed birds deliberately but we have a huge and untidy garden, we have everything from kites and sparrow hawks to wrens and siskin
Loads of buzzards round here, even get them occasionally in the garden. They never stay long as there will be a crowd of smaller birds ready to chivy them off. My favourite are the jays. We put a few cashew nuts on the windowsill each morning for the jays waiting in the tree outside. Just amazing colours, particularly the blue striped wing feathers. Our previous garden was visited by big numbers of goldfinches which would come for the niger feeders. Only seen three or four of them in the 16 years we have been here, although we do see them in nearby fields. We do get bullfinches on the feeder though, I’d never seen them before.
Cheeky beggars aren't they @Ergates We don't get them here, although they're present in other parts of the country as far as I know. We get bullfinches now and again, mainly when food's scarce. They're everywhere in the hedgerows/trees nearby though. We haven't had the nuthatches back in the last year or so, which is a shame. They're not terribly common in Scotland, so it was lovely when we had them in regularly a few years ago. There'll be loads in the NT garden nearby.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Loads of Jays here, the village is in what used to be an oak forest, and most of the existing oaks now have TPOs. I read somewhere about the incredible number of acorns buried by jays each year and their contribution to future forests. Our visitors get cashew nuts, and I have seen them tucking them into the bark on the branches of the conifers in the front garden. lovely picture of a bullfinch. We do see nuthatches, and have had them nesting in the garden some years.
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I've just read @jamesholt's posts re the hummingbird. How sad.
I think that [meat for red kites] might be a dripping roast @TheGreenMan.
Literally!
I keep meaning to go to Argaty to see them. Only about an hour away from me, with a good tail wind...
The buzzards were out yesterday here - could just pick them out through the clouds. I got a pic but I really need one of those high falutin' cameras to get them. Mine has a 36x zoom, but you can't get a focus on them well enough.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A very clever, multi talented published author has identified them in her garden.
Unfortunately they were " robbing all the nectar" from her flowers and depriving HER bees.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The kites are loving it as it’s so warm and the wind has calmed (21 here today).
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
My favourite are the jays. We put a few cashew nuts on the windowsill each morning for the jays waiting in the tree outside. Just amazing colours, particularly the blue striped wing feathers. Our previous garden was visited by big numbers of goldfinches which would come for the niger feeders. Only seen three or four of them in the 16 years we have been here, although we do see them in nearby fields. We do get bullfinches on the feeder though, I’d never seen them before.
Sorry if I’ve posted this photo before.
We don't get them here, although they're present in other parts of the country as far as I know.
We get bullfinches now and again, mainly when food's scarce. They're everywhere in the hedgerows/trees nearby though.
We haven't had the nuthatches back in the last year or so, which is a shame. They're not terribly common in Scotland, so it was lovely when we had them in regularly a few years ago. There'll be loads in the NT garden nearby.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
lovely picture of a bullfinch. We do see nuthatches, and have had them nesting in the garden some years.