Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?
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I'm noticing a lot of changes this year in the Garden. Seen more of.. Robins Wrens Sparrows Crows Blackbirds All Tits Seen less of.. Chaffinch's Woodpeckers (none at all - very unusual) There have been Sparrowhawks in the nearby wood but they seem to have been concentrating on the Pigeons more than anything else, feathers around the edge of the field everywhere. I'm hoping to see a Chaffinch soon, the Rose Hips are getting ready for a good take away! How are your birds doing? Richard New Member? Get more from the Forum and join in 'Members Chat' - you're very welcome
Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?Due to the failure of our peas and brassicas I've been neglecting the hoe. So we have seeds for the Goldfinches.
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Sunny Clucker enjoyed Folk music and song in mid-Cheshire Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?All those you have seen Richard.
Plus Magpies, Collared Doves, Wood pigeons Jay Peregrine Falcon, [who dines on the feral pigeons]............. in my garden Hardy ever see Starlings. http://www.busheyk9.co.uk
If you can't be a good example........ you will just have to be a horrible warning Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?Buzzards over our heads.
Dance caller. http://mo-dance-caller.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-i-do.html
Sunny Clucker enjoyed Folk music and song in mid-Cheshire Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?we have a lot of starlings, I have a feeder of growers pellets near the house & their
fledgings tuck in regularly! We have buzzards and kites in the fields too, and house martins but not so many as usual. Less tits, finches and thinking about it we haven't heard the woodpeckers for a while either. Perhaps the buzzards have scared a few things off. "He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
--Immanuel Kant
Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?Interesting.
I haven't seen a Starling at all, but rarely do anyway. Wendy - forgot, we're overloaded with Magpies as well, noisy so and so's !! Richard New Member? Get more from the Forum and join in 'Members Chat' - you're very welcome
Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?this may not be classed as "garden birds"....but we recently had a pair of Canada geese with their four little ones stop off in our garden...they had a nice hour sunbathing, driving the chucks crazy, chewing the grass, then following their tiny offspring back into the adjoining field and into oblivion....
Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?Wonderful Katiee
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Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?Seen an extra lot of magpies and crows.
Also collared doves blackbirds A pair of woodpeckers great tits redstarts We never see starlings or sparrow but do enjoy watching a pair of red kites that regularly fly overhead. The pheasants are going up in number and are regularly seen in the green area opposite my home. Not garden birds, but watched from my garden, so as good as. I am now a widow and live with my memories.
Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?Havent seen Starlings since we moved here in 2006 and yet there were lots of them when we lived in a town.
Just thought, we havent seen any Blue Tits or Great Tits this year either. Our garden visitors are:- Robins Sparrows who are getting quite rotund eating Dally the ducks food All kinds of Wagtails who regularly nest in the barns Collared Doves Wood Pigeons Racing Pigeons gone wild Crows in their hundreds, looks like a scene out of the film called The Birds, I think it was called, when they are in the paddocks Jackdaws Sparrowhawks Buzzards Red Kites Blackbirds Song Thrushes Wrens who regularly nest in the washouse Bull finches Chaffinch Yellow hammers Barn Owl Tawny Owl Little Owl Kestrels who nest in the large tree in one of the paddocks Green Woodpecker, but only odd visits from them Swallows in their hundreds, pooping everywhere Egrets (poss sp) but they are white and smaller than the Herons Herons Magpies Wild ducks that sit on the lawn and talk to Dally now and again There is another bird that is a mottley brown, not too big and they migrate in winter and usually eat any fallen apples off the tree before they go......cant remember their name though. Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?How big is your garden Gwen? The size of Northumberland?
Michael
Re: Garden Birds '14 - Seen more of, seen less of ?Not quite, Fabindia. LOL
I do count the paddocks that surround our garden and house as garden though, so approx 5 acres. |
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