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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: Palustris on December 23, 2009, 21:09:45

Title: A few birds!
Post by: Palustris on December 23, 2009, 21:09:45

(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/fieldfare2.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/fieldfaresmall.jpg)
(http://i703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32/Owdboggy/femaleblackbird2.jpg)
Taken yesterday in the cold and frost!

Title: Re: A few birds!
Post by: kt. on December 23, 2009, 22:40:00

They are fun to watch at times in the back garden.  I am not too good at breed names but we get loads of different birds on a daily basis.  We have 5 separate bird feeding areas around the garden - 2 nut feeders,  1 seed feeder,  1 bird table, and last but not least... the ground ;D (some birds prefer to ground feed).  Always busy. 

Today was my first attempt at making seed fat-balls. I will tie them to the bird table tomorrow and see how they go; hopefully they won't fall apart after the first peck ::) ::)

Title: Re: A few birds!
Post by: Ninnyscrops. on December 23, 2009, 23:06:31

Lovely pictures, I find watching birds one of the best time wasters in my book.

We've had great tits, blue tits, robins (chasing off both of those), nuthatches (trying to bury sunflower seeds in any crack underneath the garden table!), a cheeky magpie, a daft pigeon still working out how to get down to the feeders, but this week but my favourites were a few longtailed tits yesterday and 3 coal tits today (only ever seen the latter one at a time) plus the ever present squirrel. Sparrows and blackbirds on the ground and the wren is still hiding out in the conifer by the pond. Who said the garden slept in winter?  :)

Ninny

Title: Re: A few birds!
Post by: lorna on December 23, 2009, 23:11:01

Great photos Eric. I only get sparrows, blackbird, goldfinches, starling and collared doves. I usually go out early and put food on ground so that my blackbird can feed before the others wake up.

Title: Re: A few birds!
Post by: Carol on December 24, 2009, 20:45:00

Super pics of the FieldFare Eric.  I must try and attract them this winter. 

Merry Christmas to you and Ann.

Carol  x x

Title: Re: A few birds!
Post by: theothermarg on December 27, 2009, 16:36:20

had Goldfinch,chafinch,greenfinch sparrow ,bluetit greatit, robin ,wren woodpidgen,blackbirds starlings,the magpies,jackdaw,rooks and crows and blackheaded gulls
sit on the roofs and mug the starlings for the scraps as they don't like to come too close to the house ! and for the first time I saw a songthrush with it's pale spotty front and all a few feet from my front window on a big houseing estate
marg

Title: Re: A few birds!
Post by: Paulines7 on December 29, 2009, 18:07:58

Good pictures Eric.   :D

Title: Re: A few birds!
Post by: star on January 04, 2010, 22:43:24

Lovely pics :D. I put out peanuts in their shells for the squirrels....to keep them off the bird table....hah! Nope it dont work! Instead the magpies took the nuts (all of them) and the squirrels just went for everything else.

I put lots out in different places though, so the smaller birds did get something.

Title: Re: A few birds!
Post by: Garden Manager on January 08, 2010, 15:28:33

Hi Eric. Great Pictures.

Just one question are the top 2 both of field fares? If not what bird is the middle picture of?

Seeing your pictures i am more and more convinced I have just seen at least one in the garden.

Thanks

Title: Re: A few birds!
Post by: Palustris on January 08, 2010, 17:44:44

Almost certainly Fieldfares. The last one is a female blackbird.

Title: Re: A few birds!
Post by: Garden Manager on January 09, 2010, 15:22:11

Quote from: Garden Assistant on January 08, 2010, 15:28:33

Hi Eric. Great Pictures.

Just one question are the top 2 both of field fares? If not what bird is the middle picture of?

Seeing your pictures i am more and more convinced I have just seen at least one in the garden.

Thanks

Thanks Eric. Definitely got a couple of them in the garden then. Along with Redwings and at least one type of Thrush.