Birds and garden visitors...

[Baggy]

In the last few days a fieldfare has appeared in the garden, am wondering if it is the same one that visited last year. It's a feisty bugger! It keeps chasing the blackbirds away, but suppose it must be hungry after flying all the way from Scandiwegian parts.

Have also seen a lesser spotted woodpecker dangling off the fat peckers.

Am just pondering the blurb on bird seed that says "attract species x by putting y in the garden". If you've never, ever had a particular variety of bird in your garden is it really likely they're going to spot whatever it is you've put out, and start visiting?

 

[rich p]

We had a solitary redwing but nothing else of note from the usual tits, turdidae etc.

Plenty of meerkats, sorry, mere cats

 

[Baggy]

We had a clump of long-tailed tits here last year, hopefully they'll come back as they were ver' cute.

There's been one lesser spotted siamese in the garden...

 

[bigtim]

15 long tailed tits on a fat ball feeder all at one time this week.

 

[biggs682]

just blackbirds, robins, starlings , dunnocks and pigoens so far not forgeting a mouse

 

[Arch]

Have also seen a lesser spotted woodpecker dangling off the fat peckers.

That sounds painful....!

I've got a large ladybird riding a bicycle on my window box, but that's there all the time...

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

40 Waxwings the other day !!! Only the second time I've ever seen waxwings. Apparently there is an "eruption" on.

 

[heretic]

There's a pied wagtail taken over our garden table and defending the food against all comers. So far he's had the robin, a male blackbird and a coalition of 3 doves. For some reason he doesn't mind the resident dunnocks.

 

[Baggy]

We have a solitary wagtail too, but he knows his place. Mind you, Binky the Robin is well 'ard.

Three fieldfares at dusk!

 

[ComedyPilot]

Just tits.............

And sparrows, crows, pheasant, robins........

 

[albal]

40 Waxwings the other day !!! Only the second time I've ever seen waxwings. Apparently there is an "eruption" on.

Yes , similar numbers seen down here, tho when i went to view them they'd gone. Very unusual.

 

[DrSquirrel]

In the last few days a fieldfare has appeared in the garden, am wondering if it is the same one that visited last year. It's a feisty bugger! It keeps chasing the blackbirds away, but suppose it must be hungry after flying all the way from Scandiwegian parts.

Have also seen a lesser spotted woodpecker dangling off the fat peckers.

Am just pondering the blurb on bird seed that says "attract species x by putting y in the garden". If you've never, ever had a particular variety of bird in your garden is it really likely they're going to spot whatever it is you've put out, and start visiting?

Strange you say this as someone mentioned it in the chatroom the other week, and we saw one here the other day too (although I cannot ID many birds and someone else pointed it out).

We get some woodpeckers too now, seen a mother and baby at the same time.

We get a huge amount of birds and we have 4 cats... yet some people seem to say cats scare away the birds.


If there is food, you have a chance, how else will that bird find its food... still might never get some though.

It's lovely to see all the hundreds and hundreds of foot prints in the snow

Found a rat sitting on one of the bird trays recently, and now its taken up home under our shed...

 

[Basil.B]

Had a kestrel a few weeks ago at the bottom of the garden.

 

[Norm]

Have also seen a lesser spotted woodpecker dangling off the fat peckers.

I saw a woodie on the ground this morning, the closest I have ever seen one. It was one of the green ones with a red head - is that a green woodpecker or something like that? It stood out very well against the snow, it can't have been more than 6 or 7 feet away.

 

[Soltydog]

We had a woodcock in our garden last week whilst the snow was on the ground, well out of it's usual comfort zone
Seen loads of waxwings whilst working & more buzzards than normal, but not seen any barn owls for a week or so & we normally see them most days round here hope they mananged to find food during the snow