Garden birds.
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- Avocet
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Garden birds.
Male bullfinch just been in feeding on sunflower hearts first for a long while , dunnock feeding a youngster , blackbirds still eating the tadpoles , 4 swift seen regular .
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- Avocet
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Re: Garden birds.
Juvenile Goldfinch on the sunflower feeder yesterday. They soon learn, don't they!
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- Goldeneye
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Re: Garden birds.
I had male woodpecker on fat ball feeder for 1st time in a while today.... also had nuthatch and coal tit
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- Raven
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Re: Garden birds.
Blackbird alarm calls at 6.40pm alerted me to regular early evening visit for past two weeks of a Jay chasing house sparrows out of the shrubs. Trying for novice flyers presumably, though I've not witnessed any downings.
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- Sparrowhawk
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Re: Garden birds.
We have nuthatches every year nesting in the same hole in a dead oak tree. For the past week or so the birds have been busy backwards and forwards to the nest but, all of a sudden they are gone. This happens every year. I don't think they have come to any harm (although a woodpecker was having a look at the nest site earlier today - after they had gone). We never see the young birds; they just seem to transfer operations to a new site once they have fledged until they start returning as independent birds.
Apart from the usual tits and finches etc the highlight at present is a pair of bullfinches that come, often together, and take sunflower hearts from the feeder just outside the kitchen window.
Prize for cheek goes to two mallard that come either singly or together many nights and walk up to the patio and wait to get fed, spend five minutes with us and then fly off back to wherever.
Hedgehog and fox are regular night time visitors.
Apart from the usual tits and finches etc the highlight at present is a pair of bullfinches that come, often together, and take sunflower hearts from the feeder just outside the kitchen window.
Prize for cheek goes to two mallard that come either singly or together many nights and walk up to the patio and wait to get fed, spend five minutes with us and then fly off back to wherever.
Hedgehog and fox are regular night time visitors.