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Had a day off doing a bit of spring cleaning, and kept spotting birdies in the garden.
First there was the robin, watching ffrom a bamboo cane.

The I found out why. There's building going on!  This is the ivy-covered tree at the foot of the garden, and robin with a beakful. It was going in and out all afternoon with incredible amounts of leaves and twigs!

Then the picky eater coal-tit was back - caught taking off.

The bluetit was happy to sit and eat at the fly-by restaurant...

And the dunnock was hoovering up the flirted-out seeds!


moonbells

What lovely pictures Moonbells ;D I just lurve SPRING!!!!!! 8) 8)

Wow. Great photos Moonbells. Really enjoyed.

Really great pictures moonbells.  ;D ;D ;D

excellent m ;D

lovely snaps moonbells.  i never tire of watching the birdies.

Beautiful moonbells, isn't spring such a fab season!!!

I MUST become a digital-camera-post-piccies-on-A4A-person...

...feel I am missing out big style, not being a picture competent person

Debs (computer-dunce) :'(

Thanks Moonbells, now I know what a Dunnock looks like, I can spot them amongst the Chav sparra's.

What great picrures, my Mum loves robins! Dan :-)

Wonderful pix! Been back and looked at them over & over again...a real flavour of the busy life in your garden. Congrats :D - Lishka

Such enjoyable pics to look at moonbells.

Hope you managed to finish your cleaning  ;D, Its amazing how fast an hour goes by when you are stood gawping at the birdies from the kitchen window, i am so guilty of that  :-[

Quote from: honeybee on March 28, 2006, 12:59:02
Such enjoyable pics to look at moonbells.

Hope you managed to finish your cleaning  ;D, Its amazing how fast an hour goes by when you are stood gawping at the birdies from the kitchen window, i am so guilty of that  :-[

& i thought it was just me ::) ;D

Quote from: froglets on March 26, 2006, 11:26:53
Thanks Moonbells, now I know what a Dunnock looks like, I can spot them amongst the Chav sparra's.

:)

I think we've a nesting pair of them, too. I have a trio of twined trees at the end of the garden that are covered in ivy and though they'll have to come down in the near future (one's growing through the shed and another is dead, and wobbles in wind alarmingly) I don't want to take away the nesting sites. Dilemma. I think they are a block of flats for birds at the mo.  (and flipping squirrels...) Did have a tawny owl who used to come and perch on the dead one and hoot at me, but not for a year or two  :(

I shall have to invest in a lot of bird boxes!

Had a long-tailed tit stuck in the shed yesterday - poor little thing got in the gap between doors (shed's a disaster area thanks to tree knocking it wonky) and couldn't get out again until hubby opened the door.  Birdie shot out peeping it's head off.

moonbells

I just had to save the picture of the dunnock. I have (at least) one in my garden for the first time this year, and i think their song is lovely (but not of course as good as the blackies song ;D).

I dont see them much but there seems a lot of different birds around my garden this year, judging by all the different songs and calls i keep hearing. The dunnock and great t*t's calls are about the only ones i have put a 'face' to as it were.  I have though actualy seen both green and goldfinches fleetingly recently, though i couldnt tell their 'songs' apart from any others.

This is in addition to the sparrows, pigeons collared doves, blackbirds, robins, magpies, crows, and chaffinches which onece rare in the garden have become nearly as common as the sparrows are