Pigeon-proof bird table

[laurence]

They decimated our neighbours fruit trees last year.
About time for a cull.
They are a nuisance.

In Barnes last weekend must have seen a flock of about 50-60.

were you at the wetland centre? that's my weekend hangout.

in answer to the OP... get a peregrine. the ones in Fulham loves pigeons and parakeets.

 

[ianrauk]

were you at the wetland centre? that's my weekend hangout.

in answer to the OP... get a peregrine. the ones in Fulham loves pigeons and parakeets.

I was cycling past it.

 

[Poacher]

[QUOTE 2308554, member: 9609"]This is my defence against the bigger birds - It stops them getting onto the table and eating eerything, It's not as though they get nothing, the little birds knock stuff off the table.

Note the disappointed wood pidgon leaving the scene

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Now you're making me envious, Reiver. Gorgeous male Brambling on the left of your table (and probably a female on the right?).
I've only once seen these in my garden - they're a bit uncommon round these parts, but I keep looking.

 

[Poacher]

Ah, I was on the Rhein last year and heard some but couldn't see them. As I thought it would be too cold in winter for them, I wasn't sure. Your post confirms that they are there.

There's a pair which spend a fair time on the ash tree outside my window who've driven off most of the smaller birds. Though luckily that didn't stop a little troupe of goldfinches paying visits these last two days.

Rather, er, charmingly, the collective noun is a charm of Goldfinches. No criticism intended!!!