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getting ready for the great Garden Bird Watch

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,136

    Well, I hope they've improved their website then - it couldn't cope with the traffic last year - heaven knows what attention a tv advert will bring image


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





  • TootlesTootles Posts: 1,469

    Lots of sparrows, yellow tits, collared doves and blackbirds here. Gorgeous to see from the kitchen window.

  • Peat BPeat B Posts: 441

    Collared doves are slowly working their way oop north, year by year. By the end of the century , they should be on Orrkney and Shetland as resident birds !

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,136

    Just been on a trip to Homebase for decorator's dust sheets, so I picked up some suet/mealwork pellets to scatter on the ground - those together with the Waitrose Essential Raisins will get some of the ground feeders interested image


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





  • Blackbirds are having a wonderful time with the fallen apples - I was going to clear them away but realise they like them when they are going soft!  Green woodpecker still making a daily visit, and amused to see a tiny wren hopping from pot to pot .

  • Peat,

    Collared Doves have been on Orkney and Shetland since for 40+ years. They even bred in the Faeroes and Iceland in the early 70s.

    Tootles, what are yellow tits?

  • Peat BPeat B Posts: 441

    Wal I never ! Land sakes ! I am now officially ornithologially stunted.   But seriously folks, Yellow tits live in Taiwan. Doesn't EVERYBODY know this ????  More to the point, what are Yellow Tootles ?

     

  • They're what Noddy has on his car.

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