Lovely pictures of the baby wagtails. We had a decent flock of long-tailed tits in the conifers in the front garden this morning. No wagtails visit our garden, but we seem them frequently on the sea front at Sidmouth, both pied and grey varieties. There were four oystercatchers ‘grazing’ on the cricket pitch this morning.
I love long-tailed tits but they only visit the suet balls, not the seed feeders and last year really favoured the slightly more expensive paler suet balls from Wilco rather than the yellower ones. Always amused by the wagtails running across the bowling green even when we're bowling - (they never get hit).
@philippasmith2 I think there is something in your supermarket theory. I have seen these birds near our fish pier. I actually thought that they were some type of small coastal bird.
@SueAtoo we have a couple of long tailed tits. We have what I call a family of tits which nest in our bat box. There will be other members who nest nearby as the number of them when they congregate would far exceed the space they need in the bat box. In the family, we have long tailed tits, coal tits and grand tits. They all seem to appear together and go together.
@WillowBark your garden when you moved into your home sounds very much like mine was when we bought ours. Our garden was very overgrown with weeds, the lawn was like a hay field and ot was just a wreck. Once it had all been levelled we discovered all the flower beds had been covered in layers of black membrane and gravel. We shifted all that and established bird feeding stations. At first, not many birds visited (apart from the family of tits) for days food would be left untouched. Slowly, we got visitors and word seemed to get round that our garden was a food oasis. The trick is to always have food out, experiment with different seeds, food types etc...
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@SueAtoo we have a couple of long tailed tits. We have what I call a family of tits which nest in our bat box. There will be other members who nest nearby as the number of them when they congregate would far exceed the space they need in the bat box. In the family, we have long tailed tits, coal tits and grand tits. They all seem to appear together and go together.
@WillowBark your garden when you moved into your home sounds very much like mine was when we bought ours. Our garden was very overgrown with weeds, the lawn was like a hay field and ot was just a wreck. Once it had all been levelled we discovered all the flower beds had been covered in layers of black membrane and gravel. We shifted all that and established bird feeding stations. At first, not many birds visited (apart from the family of tits) for days food would be left untouched. Slowly, we got visitors and word seemed to get round that our garden was a food oasis. The trick is to always have food out, experiment with different seeds, food types etc...
I enjoy looking at the birds in the garden.