Aye the birds are going mental this year. I have holly berries but the crows have been ripping my lawn (and the neighbour's!) to shreds when they've never done that before.
Aye the birds are going mental this year. I have holly berries but the crows have been ripping my lawn (and the neighbour's!) to shreds when they've never done that before.
Yes, there's another thing, my lawn has been devastated too by summat. I'd assumed foxes but maybe birds again? Don't see many crows in the garden, but we gets scores of magpies. Same family.
Magpies dig about in the grass too. The ones in my garden seem to be coming up with worms and slugs. I suppose the wet weather has brought them to the surface.
We are in Shropshire, and I think this is our best ever year for holly berries. Our daughter lives 5 miles away however and they have no berries. I agree it is due to birds eating / not eating them. Since retirement my husband has been providing every form of bird feed known to man, filling the feeders every morning and topping up as required - the birds are just not interested in holly berries, although the blackbirds and starlings had all the berries off what I think is a pyracantha. Even the pigeons lurk under the tree which most of the feeders hang from and pick up what's fallen down!
@pansyface Things will only get worse, I'm afraid. Word gets round quickly in the avian community so we have far more birds visiting the garden than we ever had when working and this means more feed has to be purchased to keep up - just hope the pensions will stretch to accommodate them!! On the plus side though, we are regularly visited by a woodpecker and a pied wagtail (terrible bully) as well as all manner of finches, tits and the usual lbjs.
That's something I've been wondering. I wonder things. That's my thing. If a tit or a sparrow finds a new bird feeder, do they rush off and tell their friends or do they keep it to themselves?I
Ps. I think herons are really creepy - especially when they are flying
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Don't see many crows in the garden, but we gets scores of magpies. Same family.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If a tit or a sparrow finds a new bird feeder, do they rush off and tell their friends or do they keep it to themselves?I
Ps. I think herons are really creepy - especially when they are flying