am sooooo excited!!! we had a pair of nuthatches in the garden yesterday for the 1st time!!! they kaept flitting back for most of the afternoon using 3 different feeders, am reminded of the film wayne's world " if you build it they will come" ! now we just need the goldfinches back and I'll be a v happy bunny!
I went back yesterday to feed my new nuthatch friends and I watched a nervous one finally land on my hand, take a sunflower seed, fly over to a spruce tree and start hammering away at the trunk of the tree with it's beak. I thought it was trying to hide it's seed like a chickadee will do. No, I just read that they wedge the seed into the bark so they can then brake the seed open. Chickadees just grab the seed and smash it against anything.
I went back yesterday to feed my new nuthatch friends and I watched a nervous one finally land on my hand, take a sunflower seed, fly over to a spruce tree and start hammering away at the trunk of the tree with it's beak. I thought it was trying to hide it's seed like a chickadee will do. No, I just read that they wedge the seed into the bark so they can then brake the seed open. Chickadees just grab the seed and smash it against anything.
Sitting here in our sitting room watching a pair of wrens investigating the Clematis cirr. 'Freckles' on the trellis fence by the front window - they've been doing this for a week now - are they going to nest there ? This could be very exciting
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well done Hostafan, please post an update if you have a blue tit family in it won't you?
So that's where my Goldfinches have flown to Zenjeff - we had 9 or 10 last year, but are lucky to see just two at irregular intervals so far this year. I am hopeful that more will visit in the Spring/Summer.
We have work going on close to our bird feeders for a few weeks, so there isn't much activity during the day, but as soon as the men down tools the birds come back. Needless to say, most of the bird food is being scattered in quieter places around the garden.
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a little off piste, but I found this this morning.
I'm going to make some and have a go.
https://www.bto.org/about-birds/nnbw/make-a-nest-box
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if I got a drill and learned to use it I'd be unstoppable!!
dare I post a photo of a finished article??
yes it will encourage the rest of us
I went back yesterday to feed my new nuthatch friends and I watched a nervous one finally land on my hand, take a sunflower seed, fly over to a spruce tree and start hammering away at the trunk of the tree with it's beak. I thought it was trying to hide it's seed like a chickadee will do. No, I just read that they wedge the seed into the bark so they can then brake the seed open. Chickadees just grab the seed and smash it against anything.
Nuthatches do cache food as well, often in gaps in the bark of trees and in holes in trees. So nice to have one take food from your hand.
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Sitting here in our sitting room watching a pair of wrens investigating the Clematis cirr. 'Freckles' on the trellis fence by the front window - they've been doing this for a week now - are they going to nest there ? This could be very exciting
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Pouring down here in the North East but asnt deterred the birds
Well done Hostafan, please post an update if you have a blue tit family in it won't you?
So that's where my Goldfinches have flown to Zenjeff - we had 9 or 10 last year, but are lucky to see just two at irregular intervals so far this year. I am hopeful that more will visit in the Spring/Summer.
We have work going on close to our bird feeders for a few weeks, so there isn't much activity during the day, but as soon as the men down tools the birds come back. Needless to say, most of the bird food is being scattered in quieter places around the garden.