aym280: Most of the photos I took of the tits were blurred but just about managed to get one decent photo. That photo was taken from indoors on a very long zoom
Lovely jays - we don't get them in residential gardens round here, or at least, I've never seem them in any garden I've had,but I expect they're more visible in rural locations. I've seen them on the lower slopes of the hills, but only the southern ones - they don't get too far north.
My nuthatches are visiting every day - often the two together. I think they're a pair as the males seem to be quite stroppy with each other, from what I've read. They're very messy but the other birds benefit from the stuff chucked on the ground
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Blackies were waiting for me this morning Dove. Great to see them isn't it? They seem to visit more at this time of year here - when their normal food sources are a bit more scarce. Have you got frost today? We've gone from subzero and car scraping yesterday to rain and about 7 or 8 degrees today.
aym - the cage is constructed from the shelves from one of those plastic greenhouses. The holes will be around an inch and a half/3 or 4 centimetres I guess. It's just big enough to let all the small birds in but keep starlings and anything bigger out. The starlings had a go when I first put it up, but they didn't like it. I saw one trying recently, but he chickened out!
It will get constructed more robustly this year hopefully - didnt have time last year. It'll get a proper roof as I didn't have enough of the shelves at the time so used some netting, but the squirrel made a hole in it and got in. I stuck a few bits of timber on top as a temporary measure!
The nuthatches are bigger than tits and finches - about the chunkiness of a robin, but longer. I thought they wouldn't get in when they first visited - he/she spent a minute or so sitting on the top and looking down at the feeder. Just as I was feeling guilty, he dropped down and slipped in no bother
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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Hi Fairy...the cat is eyeing up a Male and Female Reed Bunting.
Hi Sheps - I've missed your bird knowledge!
Don't think we get those up here, but perhaps in certain areas. I'll have to investigate. Very pretty
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They're certainly resident here Sheps. I've probably just never been in the right area to see them.
Quite similar to the Meadow Pipits which are all over the hills. They're really common up there.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We get Great tits
Robins
Jays
Plus magpies, blue tits and blackbirds
lovely pic of the jay.
aym280: Most of the photos I took of the tits were blurred but just about managed to get one decent photo. That photo was taken from indoors on a very long zoom
Lovely jays - we don't get them in residential gardens round here, or at least, I've never seem them in any garden I've had,but I expect they're more visible in rural locations. I've seen them on the lower slopes of the hills, but only the southern ones - they don't get too far north.
My nuthatches are visiting every day - often the two together. I think they're a pair as the males seem to be quite stroppy with each other, from what I've read. They're very messy but the other birds benefit from the stuff chucked on the ground
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I got quite a few the first time they visited
Once he/she had figured out how to get in, he/she was quite acrobatic - standing on one leg and pulling the food out with the other
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've just counted at least 12 blackbirds in our back garden! They're tucking into the porridge oats, chopped apples and vine fruits I put out.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Blackies were waiting for me this morning Dove. Great to see them isn't it? They seem to visit more at this time of year here - when their normal food sources are a bit more scarce. Have you got frost today? We've gone from subzero and car scraping yesterday to rain and about 7 or 8 degrees today.
aym - the cage is constructed from the shelves from one of those plastic greenhouses. The holes will be around an inch and a half/3 or 4 centimetres I guess. It's just big enough to let all the small birds in but keep starlings and anything bigger out. The starlings had a go when I first put it up, but they didn't like it. I saw one trying recently, but he chickened out!
It will get constructed more robustly this year hopefully - didnt have time last year. It'll get a proper roof as I didn't have enough of the shelves at the time so used some netting, but the squirrel made a hole in it and got in. I stuck a few bits of timber on top as a temporary measure!
The nuthatches are bigger than tits and finches - about the chunkiness of a robin, but longer. I thought they wouldn't get in when they first visited - he/she spent a minute or so sitting on the top and looking down at the feeder. Just as I was feeling guilty, he dropped down and slipped in no bother
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...