Greater Spotted Woodpeckers have been much more eveident in the last few days,have seen 3 different ones,also yesterday had a Jay and Woodpecker on the feeders at the same time.
The house we've just moved into doesn't have many feathered visitors at the moment. I've only seen a magpie and a few crows. But the garden is bare, totally unloved with no bushes / plants etc for them to feed off. The food I've put out is untouched, the birds watch me putting it out but don't seem to trust me enough to come and eat it. Soon as the spring comes I'll start making it wildlife friendly. My last house ( 2 streets away ) had so many different birds every day, it cost a fortune feeding them ! Maybe I should have left them a map to the new place lol
Young Christmas Island frigate bird. Critically endangered. Only eats fish. Domestic and feral cats are being eliminated from the Island, but I cant see many cats tackling this one.
So pleased , spotted a coal tit on one of my bird feeders today. I also had duck in the back garden, didn't know my garden was that wet even the lawn is very puddly!
My local wildlife group have a garden bird survey over the Christmas period and I have managed to record 22 species in the garden with four other 'fly-overs'!
The feeders have been busy all year although not as busy as this time last year.
Best species at the moment are 2x Black Cap, 2x Reed Bunting and 3x Jay, all of these are daily visitors currently.
Sunflower hearts are the most productive feed for me and I get Goldfinches and Greenfinches all year round on them.
Below is a Christmas Day Blackbird..
And my Reed Bunting pair...
The other bird that I get plagued with are Collared Doves and they've even worked out how to feed from a seed feeder as you can see below!!...
Not a lot of bird activity here (Bedfordshire) at the moment - but pleased to see more sparrows than we have in recent years, otherwise blue and great tits, the occasional long tailed one, robins (up to 6 at a time) and the crows that remove large chunks of bread and the pigeons that hoover up at ground level. We normally have gold finches and redpoll but they don't seem to be in evidence yet - perhaps it needs to get a lot colder?
Our goldfinches are singing as they flitter about in the branches of the big ash trees in the morning, but they're not visiting the feeders very much at the moment - there's plenty of other food out there in the woods, fields and grazing marshes still.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Greater Spotted Woodpeckers have been much more eveident in the last few days,have seen 3 different ones,also yesterday had a Jay and Woodpecker on the feeders at the same time.
Perhaps you could visit the old place and invite them Deb.
They do need a place of safety close by when they're feeding so get a few shrubs planted this winter
In the sticks near Peterborough
I've found that birds often need several weeks of having the food available before they notice it/ trust it.
Young Christmas Island frigate bird. Critically endangered. Only eats fish. Domestic and feral cats are being eliminated from the Island, but I cant see many cats tackling this one.
So pleased , spotted a coal tit on one of my bird feeders today. I also had duck in the back garden, didn't know my garden was that wet even the lawn is very puddly!
My local wildlife group have a garden bird survey over the Christmas period and I have managed to record 22 species in the garden with four other 'fly-overs'!
The feeders have been busy all year although not as busy as this time last year.
Best species at the moment are 2x Black Cap, 2x Reed Bunting and 3x Jay, all of these are daily visitors currently.
Sunflower hearts are the most productive feed for me and I get Goldfinches and Greenfinches all year round on them.
Below is a Christmas Day Blackbird..
And my Reed Bunting pair...
The other bird that I get plagued with are Collared Doves and they've even worked out how to feed from a seed feeder as you can see below!!...
So yes still busy here!!
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Not a lot of bird activity here (Bedfordshire) at the moment - but pleased to see more sparrows than we have in recent years, otherwise blue and great tits, the occasional long tailed one, robins (up to 6 at a time) and the crows that remove large chunks of bread and the pigeons that hoover up at ground level. We normally have gold finches and redpoll but they don't seem to be in evidence yet - perhaps it needs to get a lot colder?
Our goldfinches are singing as they flitter about in the branches of the big ash trees in the morning, but they're not visiting the feeders very much at the moment - there's plenty of other food out there in the woods, fields and grazing marshes still.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We lose our goldfinches in the winter, and only see them in summer - not sure why?