I’m surprised you’re getting ravens in Birmingham. I’ve never seen them in my garden.
A couple of yards either side of my bird feeder are two shrubs - a small privet bush on the left and a viburnum on the right. Oddly the multitudinous sparrows always flit back to the privet whereas the tits and finches favour the viburnum.
Lots of little insects in puddles and amongst the gravel and bark used for plantings around car parks. Pied wagtails are insectivores and frequently seen in such places, and on flat roofs that have gravel on them.
Gulls are big birds who need large pieces of food and they're opportunist scavengers, not seed eaters ... chuck some lumps of bread or fatty meat on a flat roof and see how soon the seagulls spot it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
They love hanging around hill summits - they've cottoned onto the fact that hillwalkers have sandwiches I was a good couple of hundred feet away when I took this. Those rocks are about 12 to 15 "
Zoomed in though - he's a smart chap
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I generally feed sunflower hearts. Most birds and the squirrels love them, even the fox cubs like a bit of muesli. However the greenfinch gang somehow skin them and drop the outer skin on the floor, so no mess it aint. Most mixes are bulked up with wheat or oats, so this order I have peanut halves, sunflower hearts , red suet pellets and a bag of dried mealworms to mix up. Yes, my birds are spoilt.
I've just filled up two sunflower heart feeders @fidgetbones. All the birds here love them. We get a lot of coal tits, and I've seen them doing something very odd which I keep meaning to ask about. I've seen them carefully choose a s'flower heart, chucking a couple out until they get the 'right' one, and fly across to one of the pots and bury it. Repeat - often in a different pot or in a border. It's exactly like squirrels burying peanuts. I've never seen them do that before, and I thought I was imagining it, but I watched for quite a while, and I've seen them do it on many occasions recently.
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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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
And for the seagulls.....
Pied wagtails need water
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
A couple of yards either side of my bird feeder are two shrubs - a small privet bush on the left and a viburnum on the right. Oddly the multitudinous sparrows always flit back to the privet whereas the tits and finches favour the viburnum.
Gulls are big birds who need large pieces of food and they're opportunist scavengers, not seed eaters ... chuck some lumps of bread or fatty meat on a flat roof and see how soon the seagulls spot it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ravens are huge birds of crags and cliffs ... they measure nearly 70cm from beak to tail-tip,
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Couldn't eat a whole one.
There's no mistaking ravens. Completely different from crows. Stunning birds.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I was a good couple of hundred feet away when I took this. Those rocks are about 12 to 15 "
Zoomed in though - he's a smart chap
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We get a lot of coal tits, and I've seen them doing something very odd which I keep meaning to ask about. I've seen them carefully choose a s'flower heart, chucking a couple out until they get the 'right' one, and fly across to one of the pots and bury it. Repeat - often in a different pot or in a border.
It's exactly like squirrels burying peanuts. I've never seen them do that before, and I thought I was imagining it, but I watched for quite a while, and I've seen them do it on many occasions recently.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...