We put suet blocks out for the starlings - they can access them fairly easily and they leave the suet in the feeders with cages around them for the smaller birds.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We need the starlings - they eat the leather jackets/chafer grubs etc in the meadows and lawns, and they don't tear up the grass to get them like the rooks do.
Last edited: 26 January 2017 18:36:08
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have a nice mix usual garden birds, blue, great, coal, long tail tits black birds, robins have 4 of those always fighting with the other small birds over the food. Wrens , dunnocks, goldfinches, bullfinches, chaffinch and greenfinch all coming for the sunflower hearts
I now have 3 bird tables and 3 feeding stations. Sometimes it looks like a Disney film with all the birds feeding and bathing in the pond! We get starlings, doves, wood pigeons, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, sparrows, black birds, gold finch, robins, that's it off the top of my head!
We also have red kites swooping around the sky all the time but they never land in the garden.
My worse visitor is a huge heron which i fear has had all my gold fish.
I did a trial one hour bird count today ready for the real thing over the w/end. Just 8 birds seen, and one very naughty ginger cat sitting on the bird table. Never mind spending pounds on food and feeders - a water pistol is next on my shopping list. Sorry Percy .........
Bit of netting over the pond BM - that'll keep the fish safe.You can leave some openings for other creatures to get in and out.
You can also get interlocking plastic rings which you can put round the edges too. They're wading birds so they don't go in too far, and that stops them.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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We put suet blocks out for the starlings - they can access them fairly easily and they leave the suet in the feeders with cages around them for the smaller birds.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We need the starlings - they eat the leather jackets/chafer grubs etc in the meadows and lawns, and they don't tear up the grass to get them like the rooks do.
Last edited: 26 January 2017 18:36:08
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks guys - especially Aym - will try your recipe!!!
Happy Bird Watching all!
We have a nice mix usual garden birds, blue, great, coal, long tail tits black birds, robins have 4 of those always fighting with the other small birds over the food. Wrens , dunnocks, goldfinches, bullfinches, chaffinch and greenfinch all coming for the sunflower hearts
I now have 3 bird tables and 3 feeding stations. Sometimes it looks like a Disney film with all the birds feeding and bathing in the pond! We get starlings, doves, wood pigeons, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, sparrows, black birds, gold finch, robins, that's it off the top of my head!
We also have red kites swooping around the sky all the time but they never land in the garden.
My worse visitor is a huge heron which i fear has had all my gold fish.
I did a trial one hour bird count today ready for the real thing over the w/end. Just 8 birds seen, and one very naughty ginger cat sitting on the bird table. Never mind spending pounds on food and feeders - a water pistol is next on my shopping list. Sorry Percy .........
Bit of netting over the pond BM - that'll keep the fish safe.You can leave some openings for other creatures to get in and out.
You can also get interlocking plastic rings which you can put round the edges too. They're wading birds so they don't go in too far, and that stops them.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I can't believe it! Today the Nuthatches have decided I'm cool! Made me so happy.
how beautiful, I am so jealous! am going to encourage my littlies to do the birdwatch today
I think I'm going to do my birdwatch early tomorrow morning