Wild birds and the cold.

[dogmandont 9,916]

I get a lot of finches, green, gold, bull, and Chaffs all coming for the niger seed when the feeder empties their gone, sparrows and tits on the mixed seed and fatballs and a handful of mealworms on the windowsill for the pair of robins. 

[scothunter 12,609]

Going through a shit load of bird food.full bag of no mess seed. Half a feeder of sunflower hearts and fastballs . Diet pellets and mealworms go within in an hour lol.

For some reason the peanut's last for weeks.

Need to stock up again tomorrow. 

Got few wagtails visiting never really see them in my garden until recently. They just eat what's on the ground. 

[South hams hunter 8,934]

We have a eucalyptus tree in the front garden and I have put a cut branch coming down from a main branch. It's got several feeders, a bowl, fat blls, suet blocks and the filled half coconuts. Also put a few hooks in the tree for two other feeders.

We only feed sunflower hearts in the feeders and also a bit under them and on the main path we put mixed seed for the grubbers  (feral pigeons)

the feeders get ; goldfinches ( mainly and they have started roosting in the tree) sparrows, blue Tits, great tits, greenfinch 

The bowl gets woodpigeons and collard doves

The suet block has a pair of black caps and the long tail tits 

Fat balls are mainly eaten by the starlings 

On the floor we get chaffinches, dunnocks, a Robin and some wagtails 

Oh and a crow which doesn' bother the others but seems to chase of magpies, sparrowhawks and cats.

These are the 16 species we get visit daily and then we get the odd other guests as wll; the 2 year old loves it, they'e her pride and joy and she watchs them out the window, feeds them daily and even helped put up the bird boxes. She's also started to tell the difference between the types that come down

 

Forgot to say she goes through 12.5kg of sunflower hearts every week to 10 days

[Kerny92 1,246]

I'm trying to find the episode of Winterwatch where they put a selection of seeds in different trays next to each other. 

[peterhunter86 8,627]

I got to see a spar make a kill today,I was making the kid's breakfast this morning when I noticed all the bird's leave the feeder's and head for the bushes when I looked out I seen the spar on a fence, there's 3 bushes about ten feet from each other and the spar kept flying from bush to bush to bush trying to get the birds to break cover,after a minute or two a couple made a break for it but one went the opposite way over the neighbors fence and the spar went after it and as the spar landed on the fence the bird came back over and the spar jumped in the air and out stretched it's leg and grabbed the bird and was gone,I've seen spars take birds before but never like this,they always just came out nowhere and dived on their prey.

[sussex 5,777]

See this under the feeders today , never seen one in the garden before ...

yellowhammer .

[scothunter 12,609]

Just bought 3 new feeder's today. Put them@ front of house so now as well as back garden costing me a fortune lol

[lurcherman 887 13,264]

3 hours ago, peterhunter86 said:

I got to see a spar make a kill today,I was making the kid's breakfast this morning when I noticed all the bird's leave the feeder's and head for the bushes when I looked out I seen the spar on a fence, there's 3 bushes about ten feet from each other and the spar kept flying from bush to bush to bush trying to get the birds to break cover,after a minute or two a couple made a break for it but one went the opposite way over the neighbors fence and the spar went after it and as the spar landed on the fence the bird came back over and the spar jumped in the air and out stretched it's leg and grabbed the bird and was gone,I've seen spars take birds before but never like this,they always just came out nowhere and dived on their prey.

What a lovely dream 

[forest of dean redneck 11,722]

1 hour ago, W. Katchum said:

I had seen a spar a kestrel an a buzzard all before lunch time today around the yard, birs are going into over drive now up dales

Drove to Abergavenny an back today seen 2 red kites an probably dozen buzzards ?

[fireman 10,995]

Just don't anyone waste their money on dried mealworms,no nutritional value in them and your better off buying maggots from the fishing shop,keep them for a few days in bran till the black spot goes,pour boiling water over them,then quench them in cold water then freeze them until needed as such.You can buy them as frozen pinkies from some bird food suppliers but make sure there maggots and not baby mice when buying frozen pinkies,good for captive birds as well..

[Kerny92 1,246]

3 hours ago, forest of dean redneck said:

Drove to Abergavenny an back today seen 2 red kites an probably dozen buzzards ?

Only two, they are as common as muck nowadays.

[Meece 1,958]

Until recently I'd never even seen a buzzard. There were four wheeling above us when we took the dog out for a walk around the orchards at the weekend.

[Kerny92 1,246]

4 minutes ago, Meece said:

Until recently I'd never even seen a buzzard. There were four wheeling above us when we took the dog out for a walk around the orchards at the weekend.

All over the place now.

[peterhunter86 8,627]

p.

Edited March 22, 2018 by peterhunter86

[peterhunter86 8,627]

4 hours ago, lurcherman 887 said:

What a lovely dream 

And I was enjoying it till you're Mrs rolled over and farted and woke me up.