Fairy, we saw a Golden Eagle on Skye - it was a glorious June day after five days of torrential wind and rain and I think he had a hungry family to feed. We also went to the Outer Hebrides and saw a corn crake - a real once in a lifetime sighting. Unlikely to get those on our bird table
Great photos Johnnycanoe - good to see birds from 'over there' :-)
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
2 robins who stayed close to me when I was planting our new dwarf fruit trees, blue titsm great tits, long tailed tits, sparrow and a wren, we've 5 feeders up, 1 sunflower harts, 1 niger seeds, 2 mixed feed and fat balls, we haven't as many birds as I'd like or expect, I never really tidy up and leave piles of big twigs, I wonder if it's because there are lots of cats around, who I always chase off if I see them!
We have a diffent birds we have a weaver which the male is yellow and he builds the nest which they enter from the bottom and if the female wwhich is dark brown does not like the nest he has to build a new one their eggs are pale blue. WE then get the red bishops the male is red until about the end of feb and then goes brown they like to be near the dam and built on the reeds. our wagtails built a nest on my fresh air plant and we got 4 babies last yr they got eaten so this yr we were luckly. we also get the pigeins ,i will try and get a photo of them on the birdfeeder.Johnnie i loved your bird photos and if you can send some snow to us in south africa i will send the sun and hot weather
There are lots of birds in my area! Saw some lovely birds this morning as I headed out. I got a fair few in my garden in the summer, but now it's winter and I bought a load of bird feeders of different sorts, none are in my garden! I think that as it was a new garden last year I only had annuals, and now they are all gone my garden is too bare for any birds to feel safe in there. I've bought a bunch of bare roots that she currently in a pot waiting to hopefully be planted up next week! Next year hopefully I'll get them in my garden!
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Fairy, we saw a Golden Eagle on Skye - it was a glorious June day after five days of torrential wind and rain and I think he had a hungry family to feed. We also went to the Outer Hebrides and saw a corn crake - a real once in a lifetime sighting.
Unlikely to get those on our bird table
Great photos Johnnycanoe - good to see birds from 'over there' :-)
Last edited: 26 January 2017 08:25:46
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
2 robins who stayed close to me when I was planting our new dwarf fruit trees, blue titsm great tits, long tailed tits, sparrow and a wren, we've 5 feeders up, 1 sunflower harts, 1 niger seeds, 2 mixed feed and fat balls, we haven't as many birds as I'd like or expect, I never really tidy up and leave piles of big twigs, I wonder if it's because there are lots of cats around, who I always chase off if I see them!
We're getting more and more birds as the shrubs we've planted are growing - the birds seem to feel more secure if they've got cover nearby.
When I was making the coffee earlier there were at least 8 goldfinches on the feeders, plus the usual bluetits gt tits, blackbirds, robins etc
Last edited: 26 January 2017 09:02:13
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
oh, forgot blackbirds! no sign if goldfinches for a year
We have a diffent birds we have a weaver which the male is yellow and he builds the nest which they enter from the bottom and if the female wwhich is dark brown does not like the nest he has to build a new one their eggs are pale blue. WE then get the red bishops the male is red until about the end of feb and then goes brown they like to be near the dam and built on the reeds. our wagtails built a nest on my fresh air plant and we got 4 babies last yr they got eaten so this yr we were luckly. we also get the pigeins ,i will try and get a photo of them on the birdfeeder.Johnnie i loved your bird photos and if you can send some snow to us in south africa i will send the sun and hot weather
There are lots of birds in my area! Saw some lovely birds this morning as I headed out. I got a fair few in my garden in the summer, but now it's winter and I bought a load of bird feeders of different sorts, none are in my garden! I think that as it was a new garden last year I only had annuals, and now they are all gone my garden is too bare for any birds to feel safe in there. I've bought a bunch of bare roots that she currently in a pot waiting to hopefully be planted up next week! Next year hopefully I'll get them in my garden!
Love starlings, beautiful and intelligent birds and very much on the decline across Britain. We nearly got one feeding from our hand last summer
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have to confess to shooing them away from our feeders. They bully smaller birds out of the way.
We used to have lots of starlings but haven't seen any for a couple of years or more.
We don't get them here either, Joyce.