Cycling Naturalist
Guru
- Location
- Llangollen
I followed the Bruce Jenner guide. It was a bit painful.
feeding the birds
- Thread starter Levo-Lon
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I followed the Bruce Jenner guide. It was a bit painful.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I got some of those coconut halves filled with fat and seeds for the birds around here, after Pat 5mph told me off for giving them bread.
They finished them off in a week, so i got some of those fat balls, which aren't lasting too long either. We don't get anything exotic like some of you. It's mostly starlings and the odd robin, blue tit and blackbird. They don't always get health foods though. The other day i threw some chips from the chippy onto the kitchen roof. They were gone the following day.
They finished them off in a week, so i got some of those fat balls, which aren't lasting too long either. We don't get anything exotic like some of you. It's mostly starlings and the odd robin, blue tit and blackbird. They don't always get health foods though. The other day i threw some chips from the chippy onto the kitchen roof. They were gone the following day.
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
Anyone here doing the RSPB bird survey on Jan 31st st ?
If you go onto their website they will send out a free pack for you to record all the birds you see in the garden on that day then you can send your results in.
If you go onto their website they will send out a free pack for you to record all the birds you see in the garden on that day then you can send your results in.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
I just get the standard set, so lots of sparrow (they prefer fat balls at the front of the house), other than that the rest are mainly at the back, robins (very friendly), wren, blue tits, great tits, coal tits and in winter the long tailed tits (very noisy in their little gangs), dunnocks, and blackbirds. I don't tend to see starlings.
OP
OP
Levo-Lon
Guru
yes.. we get the RSPB emails as we are members..
nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
I live in a suburban area so there are quite a few starlings and house sparrows around. But they almost never come in my garden, not sure why. I have one feeder that I stock with sunflower hearts. Every day I see blackbird, robin, dunnock, blue tit, great tit, coal tit, long tailed tit, goldfinch (there's a group of 6 that devour the sunflower hearts), lesser redpoll in the winter, chaffinch, magpie, jackdaw, wood pigeon
Less regular visitors include nuthatch, siskin, goldcrest, song thrush, greenfinch, bullfinch, rook, collared dove, black headed gull, wren
Less regular visitors include nuthatch, siskin, goldcrest, song thrush, greenfinch, bullfinch, rook, collared dove, black headed gull, wren
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Similar to my list in my suburban garden. Occasional greenfinch, goldfinch plus marauding magpies, woodpigeons, collared doves and gulls.
Very few sparrows these days.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
The sparrows seem to be able to eat their own weight in fat balls, so having seen the forecast for next week to be a lot colder I'm going to need to stock up today!
ScotiaLass
Guru
- Location
- Middle Earth
[QUOTE 4091012, member: 9609"]As noted by others they are Little Auks, (same family as Puffins, Guillemots, Razorbills) they live well out at sea and only come on to land to breed. Little Auks migrate south from the Arctic in the winter months, many spend the winter many miles out to sea on our east coast (it is generally quite sheltered) but with the big easterly winds we have been having this past week they will be struggling to feed and some weaker ones will be getting blown onto the shore, and even well inland. And as I have spent all day today (wed) down on the northumberland coast, I can confirm the sea is absolutely massive, it sure is a wild coastline today..[/QUOTE]
Yeah, they were spotted in the local park (it has a lake) and reported to the SSPCA who rescued them.
Yeah, they were spotted in the local park (it has a lake) and reported to the SSPCA who rescued them.
Tin Pot
Guru
twentysix by twentyfive
Clinging on tightly
- Location
- Over the Hill
Yes sparrows are struggling. Fortunately for me they like my eaves to nest in. They do seem to have dispersed from my garden during this non breeding season. Hopefully they will be back.
