I've seen more variety this Autumn compared to Spring and Summer.
Summer was mainly House Sparrows with the odd gathering of finches but it's a fairly consistent mix just now with the sparrows, great tits, coal tits, blue tits, gold finches and green finches.
I had a bird on the feeder today I'm having a job to identify. A very plump round bird, about twice the size of the goldfinches, but with a similar beak as far as I can make out.
Just two bright yellow flashes on the wings, possibly a bit of white, but the breast and underneath a very pale beige/grey. Rest of the bird just a plain mid brown. Was eating sunflower seeds but also picked the debris off the ground. I thought I also saw another much smaller similar bird with it. First thought maybe a greenfinch?
The nuthatches are my favorite birds to feed, I just love listening to them talk. What is interesting this fall is that the larger white breasted nuthatches are hand feeding from me now. I only have been hand feeding the smaller red breasted ones but over the past two weeks several of the whites have decided, after a couple years, to trust me enough to take seed from my hand. https://youtu.be/3agnJtT5904
Well it depends on the bird, Chickadees and the small red breasted nuthatches are pretty comfortable with us. I was amazed with the Mr. Woodpecker, I didn't even know he was around watching me and one day suddenly he was perched on my hand staring at me.
We have both the large white breasted nuthatch and the smaller red. The reds are very easy to have eating from your hand. I even hand one settle into my hand for about five minutes because it sensed some threat, all the birds hid and he counted on me to protect him. That was so cool.
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Summer was mainly House Sparrows with the odd gathering of finches but it's a fairly consistent mix just now with the sparrows, great tits, coal tits, blue tits, gold finches and green finches.
I had a bird on the feeder today I'm having a job to identify. A very plump round bird, about twice the size of the goldfinches, but with a similar beak as far as I can make out.
Just two bright yellow flashes on the wings, possibly a bit of white, but the breast and underneath a very pale beige/grey. Rest of the bird just a plain mid brown. Was eating sunflower seeds but also picked the debris off the ground. I thought I also saw another much smaller similar bird with it. First thought maybe a greenfinch?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Your nuthatch is difefrent from the European version -
https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/nuthatch/
Well it depends on the bird, Chickadees and the small red breasted nuthatches are pretty comfortable with us. I was amazed with the Mr. Woodpecker, I didn't even know he was around watching me and one day suddenly he was perched on my hand staring at me.
We have both the large white breasted nuthatch and the smaller red. The reds are very easy to have eating from your hand. I even hand one settle into my hand for about five minutes because it sensed some threat, all the birds hid and he counted on me to protect him. That was so cool.