A pair of mallards have decided they've had enough of the lake at the bottom of the garden and would much prefer the intimacy of our small pond near the terrace.
My own fault as I'm sure she's the same bird I used to hand feed when we moved here 3 years ago.
Now the garden is planted ,I'm not so keen to have them in "the garden" as they're fond of settling down to sleep on nice lush new growth of herbaceous plants.
We dont see a huge array of birds in our garden, mainly robin, blackbird, starling, blue tits and collared dove. Not a fan of the wood pigeon who gorge on most of the feed. I was excited to see a blackbird building a nest in a shrub a few weeks ago, but after laying its eggs something must have attacked it and both eggs and blackbird gone.
Just been sat having morning cuppa and can see two blue tits have made a home in our nesting box too.
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A pair of mallards have decided they've had enough of the lake at the bottom of the garden and would much prefer the intimacy of our small pond near the terrace.
My own fault as I'm sure she's the same bird I used to hand feed when we moved here 3 years ago.
Now the garden is planted ,I'm not so keen to have them in "the garden" as they're fond of settling down to sleep on nice lush new growth of herbaceous plants.
We dont see a huge array of birds in our garden, mainly robin, blackbird, starling, blue tits and collared dove. Not a fan of the wood pigeon who gorge on most of the feed. I was excited to see a blackbird building a nest in a shrub a few weeks ago, but after laying its eggs something must have attacked it and both eggs and blackbird gone.
Just been sat having morning cuppa and can see two blue tits have made a home in our nesting box too.
Max - Do you get magpies and/or jays in your area? They'll take eggs from blackbirds nests.
Hopefully your blackbirds have started another nest in a more secluded spot
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.