The main birds we have visit our garden are blue tits, great tits, finches, pidgins, doves, and robins. But we have seen some wood peckers, king fishers, herons, and also a buzzard.
Yes, I am enjoying the bird pictures too, they are so uplifting, and such a welcome sight.
I don't know where you live Giddy, but you have a wonderful selection of feathered visitors. I would love to see a wood pecker or kingfisher in our garden, but I think I have more chance of seeing a flying pig than one of those rare visitors.
For some reason I can now only get fat balls here. No peanuts or fat blocks with insects of fruit. That means that at the mo all we're getting are sparrows and great and blue tits. No chaffinches despite loose seed and shelled superfluous seed for them on the ground.
I've seen blackbirds and robins but not at the feeders in the last week or so. There are owls about and starlings. I hope things improve soon as we used to have so many more in our Belgian garden.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Lovely visitors Giddy. Buzzards are really common up here, although we only get them in gardens that are a bit more rural. No matter how many I see - I still love it
We have kingfishers near where I work. Great if you get them coming in the garden though. Someone else on here had some visiting too. Beautiful
Trust the old 'grey tree rats' to get in on the act Johnny. glad I'm not the only one who carries cereal bars in the camera case
Perhaps the previous residents didn't encourage them too much Obelixx? I'm sure you'll get more in once they see your restaurant menu
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It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
These photos are amazing! People have birds nesting too, that's brilliant!
My bird feeding station visitors are - in order of most frequent to least: squirrel, wood pigeon, magpie, robin, blue tits, crow!! Quite annoying really. Tried Fairygirl's suggested Robin mix which is brilliant and has brought more robins, but alas the greedy pigeon and squirrel tend to get there every time and scoff it all :-(
I hate those spellchecker things - they're clearly created by idiots!
You need a cage wakeshine. That stops the greedy b***ers. hang a feeder inside. The robins (and other ground feeders) learn to perch very quickly. The big birds get the scraps thrown out
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hmm, okay I will try this. I wasn't sure if it would keep them out!! They're relentless and they behave like monkeys. They dig up everything, go in the car port and make a big mess, and on the dining room windows and keep scratching. I do feed them also but I wish they would leave the bird feeder alone! Sigh...
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Enjoying the bird pictures.
It snowed overnight and things got crazy at one of my feeding stations.
I worry when a chickadee hops around on my bike. Last week one left a deposit on my camera/fruit bars carrying case. lol
The main birds we have visit our garden are blue tits, great tits, finches, pidgins, doves, and robins. But we have seen some wood peckers, king fishers, herons, and also a buzzard.
Yes, I am enjoying the bird pictures too, they are so uplifting, and such a welcome sight.
I don't know where you live Giddy, but you have a wonderful selection of feathered visitors. I would love to see a wood pecker or kingfisher in our garden, but I think I have more chance of seeing a flying pig than one of those rare visitors.
I'm in Suffolk. We don't see kingfishers often but woodpeckers we see quite often. We have woodland behind our house.
Its the great spotted woodpecker that we see
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For some reason I can now only get fat balls here. No peanuts or fat blocks with insects of fruit. That means that at the mo all we're getting are sparrows and great and blue tits. No chaffinches despite loose seed and shelled superfluous seed for them on the ground.
I've seen blackbirds and robins but not at the feeders in the last week or so. There are owls about and starlings. I hope things improve soon as we used to have so many more in our Belgian garden.
Lovely visitors Giddy. Buzzards are really common up here, although we only get them in gardens that are a bit more rural. No matter how many I see - I still love it
We have kingfishers near where I work. Great if you get them coming in the garden though. Someone else on here had some visiting too. Beautiful
Trust the old 'grey tree rats' to get in on the act Johnny. glad I'm not the only one who carries cereal bars in the camera case
Perhaps the previous residents didn't encourage them too much Obelixx? I'm sure you'll get more in once they see your restaurant menu
Last edited: 23 February 2017 18:10:04
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
These photos are amazing! People have birds nesting too, that's brilliant!
My bird feeding station visitors are - in order of most frequent to least: squirrel, wood pigeon, magpie, robin, blue tits, crow!! Quite annoying really. Tried Fairygirl's suggested Robin mix which is brilliant and has brought more robins, but alas the greedy pigeon and squirrel tend to get there every time and scoff it all :-(
Why did the spellchecker change sunflower to superfluous? That would reduce the menu even more!
I hate those spellchecker things - they're clearly created by idiots!
You need a cage wakeshine. That stops the greedy b***ers. hang a feeder inside. The robins (and other ground feeders) learn to perch very quickly. The big birds get the scraps thrown out
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Hmm, okay I will try this. I wasn't sure if it would keep them out!! They're relentless and they behave like monkeys. They dig up everything, go in the car port and make a big mess, and on the dining room windows and keep scratching. I do feed them also but I wish they would leave the bird feeder alone! Sigh...