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Post by madonplants on Feb 28, 2008 0:41:36 GMT 1
Happier today, again. This female greenfinch spent some time in our sorbus this afternoon. I know the bird doesn't look very green, by it's definately a greenfinch. Wish I could have got closer to it, I was upstairs in Craig's bedroom when I saw it and took the picture. Actually, tbh, I heard it first and dived to the window, as I knew what it would be. Stephen wanted to know what was the matter! Still had to find it, though. Thought it would be amongst the ivy where the male I saw a few weeks ago, was. You can tell I am excited, can't you, I'm talking gibberish!!? ;D Keith  |
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Post by madonplants on Feb 28, 2008 11:19:37 GMT 1
Just had a Great Tit, followed by a Blue Tit in the same tree, but unfortunately they didn't hang around as the starlings invaded.
Great Tit is back again, starlings have gone briefly.
Keith
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Post by 4pygmies on Feb 28, 2008 11:45:50 GMT 1
That's good news! I'm glad you're finally getting some different birds now - as you said the other day to me - it makes very cheering viewing doesn't it?  |
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Post by madonplants on Feb 28, 2008 11:51:19 GMT 1
That's good news! I'm glad you're finally getting some different birds now - as you said the other day to me - it makes very cheering viewing doesn't it? Do you get any treecreepers or nuthatches, 4P? Their antics always made me smile as a kid. Probably still would, tbh! ;D Keith |
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Post by 4pygmies on Feb 28, 2008 11:52:51 GMT 1
Not as far as I'm aware. My mother usually tells me if we have any unusual ones..I shall have to look them both up now ;D
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Post by madonplants on Feb 28, 2008 12:00:32 GMT 1
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Post by 4pygmies on Feb 28, 2008 12:04:04 GMT 1
It does, thanks dearie! I don't think I've ever even seen a treecreeper but I'm pretty sure I've had some nuthatches in the garden actually. Not this year though... I am not all that good at naming all the birds I see - and it depends whether I've cleaned the windows recently, and whether I am wearing my reading specs too...... : |
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Post by madonplants on Feb 28, 2008 12:35:04 GMT 1
It does, thanks dearie! I don't think I've ever even seen a treecreeper but I'm pretty sure I've had some nuthatches in the garden actually. Not this year though... I am not all that good at naming all the birds I see - and it depends whether I've cleaned the windows recently, and whether I am wearing my reading specs too...... : That makes me feel a little better. Why do you need reading specs to see birds in the garden? : Keith |
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Post by 4pygmies on Feb 28, 2008 14:11:41 GMT 1
Um because they are my only specs....had the same pair for years and can't afford to get them updated...... : Terrible I know but there you are..... |
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Post by bogmyrtle on Apr 8, 2008 12:23:50 GMT 1
I arrived home the other evening to be greeted by mommy blackbird gathering nesting material in the front garden, daddy looking and finding worms. They are nesting in next door's hedge. There were 3 blue tits on one of the roses - eating the aphids I assume and hope!
The next morning, a thrush was there! This was the first time I had seen one in our garden although I have seen them around and about. It didn't fly off when we pulled up in the car either.
Great to see them around ;D
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Post by maggyd on Apr 8, 2008 15:52:21 GMT 1
We have tits nesting in our box again, and I think the robin has built his nest in an old kettle that we put behind the holly ive seen them going in and out and I saw the male feeding the female a tit bit on my acer it was a precious moment I left my backdoor open when I was making tea the other day as a thrush was at the top of a tree behind us singing its heart out for about 20 mins; it was wonderful. I saw something this morning about a radio station that is broadcastin bird song ;D when I have the time I will sit and see if I can find it! I wish I had taken more notice which station it was on I was half asleep  it could have been 4. |
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Post by bogmyrtle on Apr 8, 2008 16:10:03 GMT 1
I saw something this morning about a radio station that is broadcastin bird song ;D when I have the time I will sit and see if I can find it! I wish I had taken more notice which station it was on I was half asleep it could have been 4. I heard that maggyd, it was a station that was going to close because it didn't have many listeners, so they played a 20 minute loop of birdsong, they now have 1/4 million tuning in! Sorry, I can't remember the name either! |
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Post by Sleepy on Apr 8, 2008 16:51:16 GMT 1
I arrived home the other evening to be greeted by mommy blackbird gathering nesting material in the front garden, daddy looking and finding worms. They are nesting in next door's hedge. There were 3 blue tits on one of the roses - eating the aphids I assume and hope! The next morning, a thrush was there! This was the first time I had seen one in our garden although I have seen them around and about. It didn't fly off when we pulled up in the car either. Great to see them around ;D I occasionally see a thrush in my garden too - the blackbird is the reason the thrush is in decline, I read somewhere, can't remember where now though! : We've put up 2 tit boxes, which were being checked out by a pair a few days ago, I hope they decide to move in. Thrushes will get a snail and throw it against a stone to break its shell. Meanwhile a blackbird will sit nearby watching and then nip in and steal the freshly unwrapped food from the thrush. I am not aware that this behaviour has caused a decline in thrushes though. |
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Post by Sleepy on Apr 8, 2008 17:19:05 GMT 1
I did see a blackbird robbing a thrush of his prize - just the once about 8 years ago in Henley-in-Arden. |
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Post by madonplants on Apr 8, 2008 22:56:46 GMT 1
I arrived home the other evening to be greeted by mommy blackbird gathering nesting material in the front garden, daddy looking and finding worms. They are nesting in next door's hedge. There were 3 blue tits on one of the roses - eating the aphids I assume and hope! The next morning, a thrush was there! This was the first time I had seen one in our garden although I have seen them around and about. It didn't fly off when we pulled up in the car either. Great to see them around ;D I occasionally see a thrush in my garden too - the blackbird is the reason the thrush is in decline, I read somewhere, can't remember where now though! : We've put up 2 tit boxes, which were being checked out by a pair a few days ago, I hope they decide to move in. I wouldn't have thought so, more likely lots of factors, like weather/pesticide use. They both love worms, so if we have a hot summer, they will suffer with baked soils and the like. More 'concrete gardens' don't help either for the same reason. Keith |
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Post by elsie on Apr 10, 2008 13:02:23 GMT 1
I was working in the greenhouses and had both doors open. I closed the doors when I went in for some Lunch.A bit later I went back down to the greenhouses to turn the heaters back on and when I opened the door of one of them I was startled by a little bird flitting about inside  It was a beautiful little Jenny Wren ;D I opened both doors up and she flew out ;D I was wondering when she actually went into the greenhouse  Last year I went into the spare bedroom for something and heard a noise - it was a Goldfinch sitting on the windowsill - behind the net curtain - I opened the big window and it flew into the tree where it 's Mummy was waiting for it ;D It must have got in through the small window |
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Post by maggyd on Apr 11, 2008 15:40:34 GMT 1
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Post by maggyd on Apr 13, 2008 16:00:06 GMT 1
OHHHHHH thats what I was thinking they are a menace to small birds arent there. |
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Post by 4pygmies on Apr 13, 2008 16:05:15 GMT 1
OHHHHHH thats what I was thinking they are a menace to small birds arent there. I know many people get upset about that but it is all part of Life's rich tapestry...carrion birds have an important place in the scheme of things. My OH hates Magpies but I think they're beautiful birds. If everyone provided lots of natural cover and planted food filled shrubs etc the little birds would be safer - it's just a carrion birds job to clear up.....sad but true. Don't shoot them - I think we've interfered enough already...(I know you won't really ;D) |
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Post by maggyd on Apr 13, 2008 16:52:21 GMT 1
I couldnt shoot em 4Ps but if thy come after my blue tits they will get the sweeping brush thrown at them  I was really upset when I was watching a mother duck and all her ducklings walking across the car park in the lakes and a flippin big black I thought it was a crow picked a baby up and flew into the bushes and if tht wasnt bad enough the bu...r came back and took another one!!  |
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Post by madonplants on Apr 13, 2008 16:57:44 GMT 1
I'm with 4P on this one. More harm is done to birds by cats, than any bird, so leave nature alone to sort itself out, however hard it is.
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Post by 4pygmies on Apr 13, 2008 20:07:23 GMT 1
I'm not surprised it upset you, it would me too. Nature in the raw is pretty gruesome - the bit we don't often see in the flesh....we are not often exposed to it these days are we?
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Post by madonplants on Apr 25, 2008 10:24:49 GMT 1
Things are picking up here, now the leaves are on the big sorbus tree. Yesterday, at one point, I saw a Great Tit, a Wren, three male Blackbirds, saw the female today, umpteen Starlings (obviously!), House Sparrows, a Robin that spent most of the day in the garden and my two Collared Doves. Today, I have just seen a Greenfinch, a Chaffinch and yes a Blue Tit, alongwith the usual suspects, but by the time I got my camera out the Blue Tit had flown off!  |
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Post by madonplants on Apr 29, 2008 10:11:58 GMT 1
Yep, definately picking up here. Yesterday, before we went to the hospital, I had two Goldfinches again and they were on my seed feeder and not on the ground this time. As it's the second time I have seen them, while getting those DVD's for Stephen, I got some nyger seeds and a feeder for them. Lets see if they come back and feed from it. I only have sunflower seeds in the seed feeders, atm, though the birds don't seem to mind. Stephen enjoyed going around the G/C in a wheelchair! He tried on the crutches, but after about 10 yards, admitted defeat and told me to get the wheelchair. Daddy is right, sometimes.
This morning, as I swooped into the kitchen, there was a Blue Tit on the top of my feeding station, but flew off when it saw me. darn
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Post by The witch on Apr 29, 2008 11:32:34 GMT 1
I've had 2 gold finches visiting too Keith ;D they seem to love the sunflower seeds - I'm not going to give them nyger seed though as weeding it from around the feeding station is a night mare!
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it could have been 4.
