We see the odd Coal Tit, but it is mostly Blue, Great and Long Tail in our Berkshire garden.
We would probably see a lot more Tits if our thug pack of Sparrows, between 30-50 did not bully then off the seed & peanut feeders. The Sparrowhawk visited today, but failed to capture anything. It lives locally, so knows exactly where to swoop. Unusual that it did not get anything. Then again the Red Kites dwarf everything.
Here in Cornwall we have all the tits and finches, gold and bull, which I am thrilled to see, but no sparrows. Blackcaps and dunnocks,wrens and siskins also visit now and then.
I feed the birds all year round.I buy my seed from Vinehousefarm.co.uk.Next day delivery if ordered before noon and no delivery charge.Check them out.Please make sure there is a plentiful supply of water for the birds.When frost is forcast turn birdbaths upside as the water will only freeze.re-fill in the morning.
Lovely to hear about all the Tits - not sure about feeling them though 'spookeyfox'.....! We also have a selection of lovely Tits and Sparrows and I'm waiting to see if we'll get any Fieldfares or Redwings this year as we did last year - a real treat! At the nursery where I work we've still got a few Red Admirals, Commas, Peacocks and Bumble Bees flitting around.....as well as a family of foxes who have after-hours parties in one of the greenhouses - I'm sure they have a lovely time but it can be very smelly in there the next day!
Richard, I agree - it is soul crushing when you see yet another garden being turned into a grey rectangle. When I look out of my upstairs window (being the nosey person that I am, looking for Tits and the like....ahem), 99% of the surrounding gardens are just a rectangle of grass with no plants, no borders, no trees, nothing - oh, except for maybe a BBQ.....this tempts me to make mischief and go around by night scattering wild-flower seed.......is there a name for people who do that? Over and out.....
Reply to Mrs P The trouble with mown lawns is that you can do nothing to improve them except...don't mow them. Guerilla gardening is all very well, but if the plot of land to be targeted is a bit of 'waste' land, it is probably already far better for wildlife than if it were gardened.
I have had a severe reduction in the number of birds visiting my garden since August, and although a few are returning I am at a loss to know why so many have disappeared. |I know that there is always a time when they are more scarce but have never been so bereft of birds for so long. I now have a few tits, blue, great and long tailed, and the odd robin and blackbird but very little else.
Could it be there is lots of more easily available food than normal in your district, linda? There has been a wonderful crop of fruit and berries this year.
Dear all, I am amateur gardener and so far this year went for me in by both front and back balcony garden, My Begonias were the most fruitful plant I had, however I am attempting to make it live longer so I brought indoors, I don't want it to die however I believe it's dying, it's growing a sort of white later in its leaves, like fungus, will it die anyway? also why my indoors plants are growing a kind white layer at the soil level, is that a disease? need help and advise please, thanks
A few days ago I watched a crowd (well about 7) coal and longtailed titmice chirruping their way around a lone London plane tree outside Forest Hill Railway Station. They're obviously all over the place. Now that I've got my eye in.
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We would probably see a lot more Tits if our thug pack of Sparrows, between 30-50 did not bully then off the seed & peanut feeders. The Sparrowhawk visited today, but failed to capture anything.
It lives locally, so knows exactly where to swoop. Unusual that it did not get anything. Then again the Red Kites dwarf everything.
Richard, I agree - it is soul crushing when you see yet another garden being turned into a grey rectangle. When I look out of my upstairs window (being the nosey person that I am, looking for Tits and the like....ahem), 99% of the surrounding gardens are just a rectangle of grass with no plants, no borders, no trees, nothing - oh, except for maybe a BBQ.....this tempts me to make mischief and go around by night scattering wild-flower seed.......is there a name for people who do that? Over and out.....
The trouble with mown lawns is that you can do nothing to improve them except...don't mow them. Guerilla gardening is all very well, but if the plot of land to be targeted is a bit of 'waste' land, it is probably already far better for wildlife than if it were gardened.
however I believe it's dying, it's growing a sort of white later in its leaves, like fungus, will it die anyway? also why my indoors plants are growing a kind white layer at the soil level, is that a disease? need help and advise please, thanks