You're all showing off..(wink) I've been trying to entice birds into my garden for months, with i assume, no joy. That is to say, they may be visiting when I am at work. However I did have my 1st two at the weekend... a cheeky wood pidgeon, who somehow sat in my hanging bird station (this is triangular with a mesh tray in the middle)and a crow. Still if any of the other birds saw them they may realise there is food there. But i will not be beaten, come 2 come all I say.
I have many interesting birds in my garden, as we back onto fields & marsh. But the one I love most is a Pheasant, I call him Rodger. When I put food out I call him and he runs across the field. Last year he came into my garden with his mate and five young. He even sits on the bird table. Only thing is he wakes us up in the morning with his call, waiting for his food.
I love looking at all the birds that visit my garden. The woodpeckers, finches, pheasant and even the heron that seems to visit my pond but thankfully not taking any of my fish. The only bird that annoys me is the pigeons that make a horrible song (if you want to call it a song) in the morning.
I had lived in my previous house for 16years without seeing a goldfinch, I then started to put out nijer seed in the special feeders, it took 6 months to attract them but I ended up with at least 10, I then had to move house and a neighbour said that they would carry on feeding them, I now live out in the sticks, and with nijer seed and aniseed table mix as well as black sunflower seeds and nuts and fat balls, I enjoy the gold finches, wood peckers long tailed tits and at least a dozen yellow hammers, so never give up, they will find the food in the end. I also have three cats and agree that there is safety in numbers.
We have squirrels as well and they eat alot of the peanuts and sunflower seeds we put out. BUT when they have had their full the blue-tits, great-tits,at al come along for their feed. They all seem to get along harmoniously; each having their turn. We try to make our garden welcoming for all wildlife, although the occasional cat does get a ferocious stare and fierce hand-clapping from me; that most often works and the cat cowers and slinks away.
I have never seen a Goldfinch before, but 2-3 weeks ago 2 arrived in my garden (in Rayleigh, Essex) to feed on the nut feeder that is hanging in my tree. I checked on the internet to see what they were, as I didn't recognise them - they are really beautiful birds.
We have a good sized garden in Heren Bay with 20 trees including a sesile oak and this spring have noticed several goldfinches in the oak tree, they are unmistakable,
I live in an over developed town, but over the past 18 months I have been feeding the birds throughout the year, I have now been rewarded, with Goldfinches, a pair of Bull finches, Coal tits, Great tits, Blue tits and all the other more commonly known birds, a woodpecker also came to call last winter and a black cap in the spring, I love watching and waiting for new a new visitor to visit.
Posts