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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: Carol on March 24, 2004, 22:33:57
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Had quite a day with the bins. watching the birds. I spotted little birds up in the silver beech trees and sure enough, the pair of birds which landed on the nuts were the Siskens. I know they usually turn up in my garden every year around this date. They are neat little birds and tend to eat hanging upside down.
So I have had all my winter visitors now. Roll on april when I welcome the arrival of the Swallows. My eyes will start looking for them from the first week in April but it is usually around the 28th april when I see them in the village.
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Carol, Saw swallows today at my allotment in Whitley Bay. They were such a lovely sight. I love the way they swoop and the chattering noise they make, they always look as though they are having such a nice time. ;D busy_lizzie
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That is early BL. I looked up the BTO site for any reports of the arrival of the Swallows and there has been one sighting so far in Northumberland. So I would say you have been lucky in seeing the swallows so early and if you are a member of the BTO please let them know.
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Siskins are around all year long, but prefering pine woods they're not a bird we can all enjoy seeing. If you want to help them consider what they make their April/May nests from; wool, moss, lichen covered twigs, plant fibre, grass, hair and thistledown.
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We have had loads of Siskins visiting our garden for a number of weeks now. We have alot of conifers on our property so do you think they would be nesting in them Ken?
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They love pine and if they're in your area and can find the stuff to make nests, why not? One give a-way to nesting is to watch the male bird fly really high, almost straight up and followed by the female. To a sisken that's heavy courtship.