Winter Bird Watching, what have you seen today?

[thifasmom]

Is this normal or somewhat unusual?

Siskins

For a few months now about 20 Siskins have been regular daily visitors to the feeders. It gradually increased and two weeks ago about 50 were coming each day. In the last few days this increased to 70 and today the numbers increased to over 100. I could not count them all.

By the way they really prefer Sunflower hearts and rarely eat the Niger seed.

wow you are lucky i would love to have seen such a big flock.

last year when they arrived to my garden they went straight for the niger feeders as well as the redpolls, but you are also right as both of these along with the goldfinches are certainly partial to sunflower hearts but so far in my garden they still concentrate on the niger feeders with only little snack visits to the sunflower heart feeder. the redpolls haven't made an appearance as yet but i also find they split their feedings equally between the niger feeder and ground feeding, i hope they return.

[Gardengirl]

Is this normal or somewhat unusual?

Siskins


By the way they really prefer Sunflower hearts and rarely eat the Niger seed.

That is strange Toadspawn as I find that I attract more Siskins since putting out niger seed. I hardly ever saw them before.

[papay]

OK, it ain't my garden, and it ain't now. But it's my camera and I think it's beautiful. Just 12 months ago, Jervis Bay, New South Wales. Lorikeets in abundance, wild and free. Sweet memories.

[tonybloke]

about a hundred swans in the same field!!

[ipt8]

We have an egret in the area, and the usual Mandarin ducks on the Millpond that our house overlooks, about twenty of them, lots of pheasants and the usual blackbirds, robins and a songthrush.

[SamLouise]

Not in my garden (sorry) but laying in bed last night, about 1.30am, I was listening to an owl hooting away!  I was very excited as I live in quite a built up over populated town and have never heard one here before!!  We have a cycle track about 200yds from our house and I'm thinking it was probably in the trees over there 

[tonybloke]

all these swans in one field!!

[woodypecks]

Blue tits are flying back and forth above my bedroom window ,through a little gap that goes into the roof . They come back every year . .....and I love to feed and watch the birds.  Debbie

[thifasmom]

the siskens have stuck around you should see he fights that are occuring around the two niger feeders

[shirlton]

We had some fieldfares at the allotment today. Must be cold up North. Haven't seen any before today this year, Some golfinches were flitting around too.

[Plot69]

Spent all weekend down our boat on the river Nene and spent a good hour watching the Red Kites circling above.

[Robert_Brenchley]

No longer winter, but there was a buzzard soaring (and calling) over the allotments today. That's the second I've seen there in the last year. There was a comma butterfly sunning itself on my plot as well.

[thifasmom]

yep winter is truly over i think, bar the odd cold week or two ahead I'm sure. time to start a new thread me thinks .