Do some birds not like gardens? We get those finches with the red faces and gold bars on their wings in the street, and on the local park which is only two streets away there are what i assume to be fieldfares (like thrushes but in a flock?) But ive never got them in the garden.
Heather, did you do the RSPB Bird Count? You would have had a super count. I'm with you on the Tree Creepers, love watching them, little white tufts on each side of the branch as they fossick their way up.
I think fieldfares and redwings prefer open ground and seem to stay(often together) in flocks - I see them in the fields round here but never in the garden.
Saw what I think was a Buzzard being mobbed by 3 Crows. They flew West to East horizon-to-horizon then East to West a few minutes later, then finally the Buzzard flew West to East again on it's own (probably thinking it had shaken the Crows off) only to be followed about 20 seconds later by 3 furiously flapping Crows!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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And I forgot the Pheasants!
And the chaffinch's! Strangely I haven't seen one today, but on a good day there are too many of those to count too!
Anyone been missing Siskins this winter? This might explain why.
We're woodland not Farmland Alan Up North so that explains why we don't see any of those!
No Alan, no siskins. But I associate them with bad weather here and we haven't had any, likewise bramblings (is there a 'b' in that?)
No sitka spruce round here
Plenty of oil seed rape for the pigeons
In the sticks near Peterborough
Would all the sparrows put the others off?
Heather, did you do the RSPB Bird Count? You would have had a super count. I'm with you on the Tree Creepers, love watching them, little white tufts on each side of the branch as they fossick their way up.
I think fieldfares and redwings prefer open ground and seem to stay(often together) in flocks - I see them in the fields round here but never in the garden.
Saw what I think was a Buzzard being mobbed by 3 Crows. They flew West to East horizon-to-horizon then East to West a few minutes later, then finally the Buzzard flew West to East again on it's own (probably thinking it had shaken the Crows off) only to be followed about 20 seconds later by 3 furiously flapping Crows!