Are some sparrows more clever than others? I have some leaky feeders with sunflowers seeds in them, the birds feeding on them inevitably drop many on the ground. There are always 7 or 8 sparrows sitting on the yew edge, when there is enough on the ground the squadron lands! Then they go back up waiting for next time. They make me smile.
@Fairygirl, the local blackbirds are depleting my holly. There will be none left for Christmas day for the table decs unless I cut a few now. 😄
The ones round here are stuffing their little faces with hawthorn and cotoneaster. Don't think they've had a go at the hollies - they all seem fine, including mine
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I feed this little guy on my morning walks. I get to this point and he/she always hops along and waits for some food from me. Heart warming. I get so worried when he doesn't turn up some days 😄
My daughter sent these to me,of a rescued Jackdaw,he had been abandoned by the flock as he has a twisted beak. The villagers are feeding him,and he's just living wild as it were,but being fed. He had no tail but it's starting to grow now.
The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
Detective work - My daughter came in from putting out more meal worms, announcing cheerfully " A murder has been committed!" Near the waterbutt she had spotted a tuft of black feathers, then some blood spots. One fewer blackbirds, then, but why so cheerful?
Not the usual suspects, sparrow hawk or corvids, as there were footprints in the snow, too small for fox, and signs of where the victim had been dragged. The blood spots continued at intervals and she tracked them across the yard, under the fence, past the empty chicken house, into the sheep field and down the field towards the stream that borders the boggy triangle.
She could follow no further, so went to check the hole in the wall where she had seen a stoat about a week ago. Lots of footprints and there was a clear trail that started from the compost heap at the end of the veg garden.This heap has been left undisturbed since we found a hedgehog sleeping in it early in the year. The stoat clearly liked it too and she tracked his prints, about a foot apart as he bounded up the veg garden path, over the gate rail, out of the field and snuck up behind the oil tank to where he was able to pounce on his unsuspecting victim.
We've had ring parakeets flying free, for some years in Kent, but I still find it strange seeing them with -5°C of frost on the ground, I had a flock of 30+ birds flying over , on this morning's dog walk.
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The ones round here are stuffing their little faces with hawthorn and cotoneaster. Don't think they've had a go at the hollies - they all seem fine, including mine
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I feed this little guy on my morning walks. I get to this point and he/she always hops along and waits for some food from me. Heart warming. I get so worried when he doesn't turn up some days 😄
Could it be a fake??
When you don't even know who's in the team
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