Wrens are lovely to have in the garden. Mine are very shy, never go to the feeders, they spend most of their time searching amongst my many containers and dry stone walls. They remind me of mice popping up and disappearing.
I have a cat so do not encourage ground feeders but the jays come in at daybreak and wreak havoc with the fat balls, spreading the crumbs far and wide so the rodent population, as well as ground feeders are catered for. I have noticed far more black caps this year, also my long tailed tit numbers have definitely increased. The blue tits and great tits are already inspecting the nest boxes so Spring is in the air. The family of buzzards are still around, increased to 4 from 2 now. I love the sound of them overhead when they call to each other.
Buzzard calls are lovely, especially on a clear sunny day, when you look up they are circling up there, quite unlike any other bird we see regularly.
What lovely pictures Johnny, that Nuthatch must be so hungry with the cold and snow. You are lucky to be able to feed them like this - I am not sure our birds would be so tame, although the robins are probably our closest, oh and those damn pigeons too.
We always have dunocks/dunlins - similar to sparrows, that are quite solitary birds like the wrens. They tend to eat from the floor - so what the seed eaters drop these little sparrow like birds eat up. I think they also nest in our garden, but goodness knows where.
Seems the birds have finally decided that our garden is a safe place to dine out, it has taken them ages to accept that i moved our feeders. On sunday i watched them dance about after sunflower hearts etc, robins,blue tits, coal tit, possibly had a lot of black on head, green finches, blackbirds, and the pigeons clean up whatever drops to the floor, just lovely to see them?
We have more birds this year than every before. So lovely to watch. The Sistine are back, didn't have any last year we put a tit box up on a nearby tree and there is a lot of interest but haven't seen anyone actually go in yet
yesterdays thrill was watching both male and female great woodpeckers creeping up and down the birch tree. Only for a few seconds but quite a sight.
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Lily Pilly, what a wonderful site - the woodpeckers would be in our garden, you are so lucky.
We have all the common birds, and some beautiful Gold Finches too, with often a buzzard floating high above the other birds (we had 8 at one count earlier this year).
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Wrens are lovely to have in the garden. Mine are very shy, never go to the feeders, they spend most of their time searching amongst my many containers and dry stone walls. They remind me of mice popping up and disappearing.
I have a cat so do not encourage ground feeders but the jays come in at daybreak and wreak havoc with the fat balls, spreading the crumbs far and wide so the rodent population, as well as ground feeders are catered for. I have noticed far more black caps this year, also my long tailed tit numbers have definitely increased. The blue tits and great tits are already inspecting the nest boxes so Spring is in the air. The family of buzzards are still around, increased to 4 from 2 now. I love the sound of them overhead when they call to each other.
Buzzard calls are lovely, especially on a clear sunny day, when you look up they are circling up there, quite unlike any other bird we see regularly.
What lovely pictures Johnny, that Nuthatch must be so hungry with the cold and snow. You are lucky to be able to feed them like this - I am not sure our birds would be so tame, although the robins are probably our closest, oh and those damn pigeons too.
We always have dunocks/dunlins - similar to sparrows, that are quite solitary birds like the wrens. They tend to eat from the floor - so what the seed eaters drop these little sparrow like birds eat up. I think they also nest in our garden, but goodness knows where.
Seems the birds have finally decided that our garden is a safe place to dine out, it has taken them ages to accept that i moved our feeders. On sunday i watched them dance about after sunflower hearts etc, robins,blue tits, coal tit, possibly had a lot of black on head, green finches, blackbirds, and the pigeons clean up whatever drops to the floor, just lovely to see them?
We had a pair of greenfinches this morning, only the second time this year - plus mr & mrs bullfinch, lots of goldfinches and a jay.
We have more birds this year than every before. So lovely to watch. The Sistine are back, didn't have any last year we put a tit box up on a nearby tree and there is a lot of interest but haven't seen anyone actually go in yet
yesterdays thrill was watching both male and female great woodpeckers creeping up and down the birch tree. Only for a few seconds but quite a sight.
A A Milne
Lily Pilly, what a wonderful site - the woodpeckers would be in our garden, you are so lucky.
We have all the common birds, and some beautiful Gold Finches too, with often a buzzard floating high above the other birds (we had 8 at one count earlier this year).
Just Mrs today, bit windy for her tho
A A Milne
Nice, Lilly P. what a joyful sight. Is the round wired cage thingy a fat ball holder? I have never seen anything like that before.
yes it is. We hadnt seen one before either. The starlings use it quite a lot which frees up the nit's for the finches and Woody
the metal one on the left holds the niger and we have huge numbers of siskins and goldfinches this year?
A A Milne
nits? Nuts!!
A A Milne