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Bird bullies

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Squirrels another introduction down to humans.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    The jackdaws need feeding too. 

    Let them all get on with it. 


    Absolutely.............we get the Jackdaws which live in the Bell tower of the old Church just a few yards away.  They have a problem balancing on most of the feeders but hoover up dropped seeds on the ground. Plenty left for a variety of small ( and large ) birds.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2023

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It's more likely to be jackdaws than anything. Certainly not ravens - and no, you can't mix them up with any others from that family - they're very, very big. Even at a distance, they're big  ;)
    We have plenty of crows round here [ jackdaws too] but they rarely come in the garden - usually just in severe weather in winter. They're very big too, but the rooks are as well. Jackdaws are quite small by comparison  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • RekusuRekusu Posts: 125
    I have no problems with any birds eating whatever seeds are on the ground, it is the fact that they are smart enough to have learnt how to grasp the feeders and are taking  the seeds, nuts and fatballs and keeping the small birds away.  It's like a Hitchcock movie!
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Put out lots of small dishes, take the feeders in at night. The jackdaws here drink the feeders in the early morning, and laugh loudly as they egg each other on 😄 so I bring them in at night.
    We have a couple of crows here every now and then, but their beaks are too big to eat from the saucers. 
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