Bushes and Birdsong

[Andy in Sig]

Along the river bank outside my flat grow fully mature trees. Between them until the day before yesterday were bushes up to about ten foot high. Then the council came and cut the bushes down to soil level. This makes the whole place a lot lighter but now the robin which has been singing every morning for the last few weeks as I left for work has fallen silent. In fact he's probably buggered off looking for a new bush. It just makes me a bit sad. I suppose the bushes will grow back though.

 

[upsidedown]

Always saddens me to see stuff cut down. My neighbour cut down a huge ivy bush that ran the whole length of the garden, thousands of moths flew out of it. It's now a bare breeze block wall, shame.

 

[Mange-tout]

Aw, that's too bad, for you more than the Robin as he'll just find another tree and lucky neighbours to sing too.

I positively encourage birds to my garden and am building it up from a bare lawn to a bush filled garden. We now get lots of birds, and hedgehogs, some birds I'd never identified before (goldfinches, siskins, dunnocks), but I do worry that the noisy starlings will annoy the neighbours - I've moved their feeder as far away from the neighbour's windows as possible - they make such a racket when they fight over the fat balls but I love the noise.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Can you put a bird box on the tree? - you can get ones for small birds.
Might get your robin back.

 

[Andy in Sig]

I've got some wood with the specific idea of knocking out some bird boxes but I think the robins and other birds like blackbirds really need the bushes, not just to nest in but as part of their habitat.

 

[Fnaar]

I love having birds (feathered variety) in the back garden... we used to use the bird table, provide fat balls etc a lot, but they were attracting rats... kept the bird table clean, but the missus saw a rat (deff not a squirrel) hanging off the container of fat balls.... but we have a fair few trees and bushes... loads of lovely little singing chirping feathered friends. And we get housemartins n the summer, which are always a pleasure to watch.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I love having birds (feathered variety) in the back garden... we used to use the bird table, provide fat balls etc a lot, but they were attracting rats... kept the bird table clean, but the missus saw a rat (deff not a squirrel) hanging off the container of fat balls.... but we have a fair few trees and bushes... loads of lovely little singing chirping feathered friends. And we get housemartins n the summer, which are always a pleasure to watch.

Do you not have fat balls any more Fnaar?


*snigger snort*

 

[Fnaar]

Do you not have fat balls any more Fnaar?
*snigger snort*

No I found they attracted so many pests that the birds couldn't get near them to have their due.

 

[Globalti]

Hmmmm... our pussy goes for all the birds.

 

[Keith Oates]

That's nature for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!