Not the usual customer for our bird feeders. This one stayed around for 3 days hovering up all the spillage from the bird feeders mainly caused by goldfinches. That is usually the blackbirds job and they were very upset about it!
Pheasants certainly aren't my favourite garden visitors.....we have a few resident ones in the field opposite.....lost a lot of bulbs in the Autumn due to their liking for tulips!!
Photo below was taken yesterday....was 2 feet from this Robin.They love the suet block,Wilkos is doing a roaring trade!!
Just had a bird of prey on the comopst heap again, i only saw the back and tail as it flew away, it was dark brown with rows of lighter brown, could it have been a kestrel?
Not telling you off little-ann please don't think that - I'm probably not at my most sociable as I've got a really horrid cold - just coughing and sneezing all the time - sorry - hope you don't catch it
Great photos by the way
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Not the usual customer for our bird feeders. This one stayed around for 3 days hovering up all the spillage from the bird feeders mainly caused by goldfinches. That is usually the blackbirds job and they were very upset about it!
I'm very envious! Our usual pair of visitors have been AWOL since Christmas, not even shouting in the distance. Sad.
Pheasants certainly aren't my favourite garden visitors.....we have a few resident ones in the field opposite.....lost a lot of bulbs in the Autumn due to their liking for tulips!!
Photo below was taken yesterday....was 2 feet from this Robin.They love the suet block,Wilkos is doing a roaring trade!!
It could have been - have a look here https://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdguide/name/k/kestrel/ have you got mice/voles around your compost heap?
Sparrowhawks are bigger and have distinctive barring on the breast https://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdguide/name/s/sparrowhawk/
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Kestrel today
That's a male sparrowhawk, not a kestrel.
Apart f rom the other distinctive markings its eyes are yellow - a kestrel's eyes are totally dark.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Here are some pictures of the distinguishing features of various birds of prey. http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdguide/name/s/sparrowhawk/identification.aspx
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I will consider myself told off
Great photos by the way
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.