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Post by bogmyrtle on Jun 16, 2008 9:23:13 GMT 1
We had a treecreeper in the dining room yesterday coutesy of Poppy!
Hubby very carefully picked it up (it was alive but looked like it was playing dead), and it sat in his hands for a few minutes not moving, he then carefully placed in a tree. Poppy was shut in and we kept an eye on it for about 3/4 of an hour. As the other birds were flying to the feeders it began to move its head watching them as they went past and then it moved on the branch, rested and then moved again and thankfully, eventually flew off safe and sound!
We have a golf course and a cricket club where we are so hopefully it went back to the relative safety of there!
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Post by madonplants on Jun 16, 2008 10:08:01 GMT 1
We had a treecreeper in the dining room yesterday coutesy of Poppy! Hubby very carefully picked it up (it was alive but looked like it was playing dead), and it sat in his hands for a few minutes not moving, he then carefully placed in a tree. Poppy was shut in and we kept an eye on it for about 3/4 of an hour. As the other birds were flying to the feeders it began to move its head watching them as they went past and then it moved on the branch, rested and then moved again and thankfully, eventually flew off safe and sound! We have a golf course and a cricket club where we are so hopefully it went back to the relative safety of there! Cat getting a treecreeper, that's unusual, isn't it? I am glad it recovered, they are lovely little birds, aren't they? |
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Post by bogmyrtle on Jun 16, 2008 10:14:02 GMT 1
We had a treecreeper in the dining room yesterday coutesy of Poppy! Hubby very carefully picked it up (it was alive but looked like it was playing dead), and it sat in his hands for a few minutes not moving, he then carefully placed in a tree. Poppy was shut in and we kept an eye on it for about 3/4 of an hour. As the other birds were flying to the feeders it began to move its head watching them as they went past and then it moved on the branch, rested and then moved again and thankfully, eventually flew off safe and sound! We have a golf course and a cricket club where we are so hopefully it went back to the relative safety of there! Cat getting a treecreeper, that's unusual, isn't it? I am glad it recovered, they are lovely little birds, aren't they? Hubby seemed to think it was a young one and that was why. |
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Post by madonplants on Jun 16, 2008 10:27:14 GMT 1
Cat getting a treecreeper, that's unusual, isn't it? I am glad it recovered, they are lovely little birds, aren't they? Hubby seemed to think it was a young one and that was why. Possible. Something went on here yesterday, but not sure what! I heard a screach from a bird, then 5/6 blackheaded gulls started circling a garden two doors away behind us, with virtually every blackbird doing it's alarm call!! Oh and we have quite a few blackbirds, too!! Going to spend some time on the RSPB site later, as I heard a bird in the garden this morning, I am not sure of. When I was a teenager, I was really quite good with bird calls, just lost it a bit in recent years. Don't listen to the tapes, these days, so that is probably the reason. I expect it was a starling doing one of it's impressions, I expect. Yesterday we had a woodlark near us, which was a nice change, though I never saw it!!  |
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Post by madonplants on Jun 16, 2008 22:36:26 GMT 1
I got mine as a kid from, I think, the RSPCA. It is a double tape, yes tape, that includes all noises from birds to foxes to crickets etc. I think I ruined one of them, if I remember correctly. I used to listen to them, while doing my homework. I really should get a more up to date one, specifically for birds. This one is a, 'now you can hear a fox with a blackbird singing in the background' sort of thing. It taught me a lot and obviously seeing the bird making the sound is the best thing. Maybe I will have a look at others, as I know I need more practice again!! The blackheaded gulls never landed, so maybe things were OK, as the blackbirds did settle down in time. But, like I keep saying, the gulls have to live too. Just been to find those tapes. I was wrong, they are BBC ones, though I expect I bought them through either the RSPB or the RSPCA! :  |
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Post by madonplants on Jul 1, 2008 22:35:52 GMT 1
Had a rare visitor to the garden, not that I was too happy about it.  It was a kestrel and it took a small bird with him as he flew off, while being mobbed by one of the collared doves! Not sure what the small bird was, probably a sparrow, don't think it was big enough for a baby blackbird and I haven't seen any robins for a while. |
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Post by floweringcherry on Jul 1, 2008 23:22:14 GMT 1
Had a rare visitor to the garden, not that I was too happy about it. It was a kestrel and it took a small bird with him as he flew off, while being mobbed by one of the collared doves! Not sure what the small bird was, probably a sparrow, don't think it was big enough for a baby blackbird and I haven't seen any robins for a while. Kestrels are fascinating to watch from a distance, but not when they fly off with a baby bird  I have lots of pigeons, jackdaws and crows visiting my garden at the moment, but I still have lots of 'nice birds' as well. ;D |
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Post by katwillow on Jul 2, 2008 9:10:39 GMT 1
We get our fair share of crows, magpies and wood pigeons too. We also usually get blackbirds, robins, dunnocks, wrens, great tits, blue tits, long-tailed tits, greenfinches, goldfinches, chaffinches, collared doves and, on occasions, a sparrowhawk. I saw one of these in my garden for the first time ever this winter aswell - hmmm, interesting |
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Post by Sleepy on Jul 2, 2008 9:13:41 GMT 1
We get our fair share of crows, magpies and wood pigeons too. We also usually get blackbirds, robins, dunnocks, wrens, great tits, blue tits, long-tailed tits, greenfinches, goldfinches, chaffinches, collared doves and, on occasions, a sparrowhawk. I saw one of these in my garden for the first time ever this winter aswell - hmmm, interesting Are you anywhere near Codsall Katwillow? |
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Post by katwillow on Jul 2, 2008 9:38:07 GMT 1
Are you anywhere near Codsall Katwillow? Yes, about 4 miles south of there. How did you know? |
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Post by Sleepy on Jul 2, 2008 9:43:21 GMT 1
Are you anywhere near Codsall Katwillow? Yes, about 4 miles south of there. How did you know? I didn't - but it is a leafy area. My MiL's sister lived in Codsall, so have visited there many times. Our MD lives in Tettenhall |
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Post by madonplants on Jul 2, 2008 10:07:43 GMT 1
Had a rare visitor to the garden, not that I was too happy about it. It was a kestrel and it took a small bird with him as he flew off, while being mobbed by one of the collared doves! Not sure what the small bird was, probably a sparrow, don't think it was big enough for a baby blackbird and I haven't seen any robins for a while. Kestrels are fascinating to watch from a distance, but not when they fly off with a baby bird I have lots of pigeons, jackdaws and crows visiting my garden at the moment, but I still have lots of 'nice birds' as well. ;D I suppose I should be honoured, I usually only see them above the motorway or down by the river. Saw a robin just now, phew and there is a baby blackbird being fed by it's mum, as I type, on the fence!! It was too big for a blackbird fledgling, though I know they are nesting in the ivy again, close to where the kestrel was. I don't think a kestrel would go into thick ivy to get a chick, would it? I only saw it just after take off and then it landed on the house opposite, briefly, before it flew off again. I think it was fed up with the dove, tbh! |
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Post by madonplants on Jul 10, 2008 23:46:34 GMT 1
Do you know something. It wasn't long ago, that I was saying how I wasn't getting very many birds in the garden. Well it's starting to get somewhere now. The last few days, I have had... Blackbirds, Starlings, Robins, Collared Doves, Woodpigeons, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Goldfinches, Greenfinches (4 at a time), Chaffinches, House Sparrows, millions of them, both young and old, a Wren, Crows, Rooks, Jackdaws, Magpies, and I suppose I should mention that Kestrel, though I haven't seen it since. I have had about 4 different seagulls flying overhead, but I can't really count them, can I? Not bad really, when you list them like that, is it? Still nothing, compared to my childhood home, but I think I can live with that list! |
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Post by floweringcherry on Jul 10, 2008 23:54:11 GMT 1
Do you know something. It wasn't long ago, that I was saying how I wasn't getting very many birds in the garden. Well it's starting to get somewhere now. The last few days, I have had... Blackbirds, Starlings, Robins, Collared Doves, Woodpigeons, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Goldfinches, Greenfinches (4 at a time), Chaffinches, House Sparrows, millions of them, both young and old, a Wren, Crows, Rooks, Jackdaws, Magpies, and I suppose I should mention that Kestrel, though I haven't seen it since. I have had about 4 different seagulls flying overhead, but I can't really count them, can I? Not bad really, when you list them like that, is it? Still nothing, compared to my childhood home, but I think I can live with that list! That's a really good list for visiting birds ;D When I was at Mum's today, she had several birds I couldn't identify, I love watching the birds, especially at Mum's young Sparrows with a parent, flapping wings for food. Lovely to watch ;D |
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Post by madonplants on Jul 10, 2008 23:58:30 GMT 1
Do you know something. It wasn't long ago, that I was saying how I wasn't getting very many birds in the garden. Well it's starting to get somewhere now. The last few days, I have had... Blackbirds, Starlings, Robins, Collared Doves, Woodpigeons, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Goldfinches, Greenfinches (4 at a time), Chaffinches, House Sparrows, millions of them, both young and old, a Wren, Crows, Rooks, Jackdaws, Magpies, and I suppose I should mention that Kestrel, though I haven't seen it since. I have had about 4 different seagulls flying overhead, but I can't really count them, can I? Not bad really, when you list them like that, is it? Still nothing, compared to my childhood home, but I think I can live with that list! That's a really good list for visiting birds ;D When I was at Mum's today, she had several birds I couldn't identify, I love watching the birds, especially at Mum's young Sparrows with a parent, flapping wings for food. Lovely to watch ;D I have a youngish blackbird still getting fed, I am sure it's old enough to fend for itself, but mum is being mum! The thing is, she has another brood going on in the ivy, I can hear them chattering away to themselves. I must admit to being pleased with the amount of greenfinches there are, when I know their numbers are dropping due to a virus going around. |
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Post by madonplants on Jul 11, 2008 11:12:43 GMT 1
Do you know something. It wasn't long ago, that I was saying how I wasn't getting very many birds in the garden. Well it's starting to get somewhere now. The last few days, I have had... Blackbirds, Starlings, Robins, Collared Doves, Woodpigeons, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Goldfinches, Greenfinches (4 at a time), Chaffinches, House Sparrows, millions of them, both young and old, a Wren, Crows, Rooks, Jackdaws, Magpies, and I suppose I should mention that Kestrel, though I haven't seen it since. I have had about 4 different seagulls flying overhead, but I can't really count them, can I? Not bad really, when you list them like that, is it? Still nothing, compared to my childhood home, but I think I can live with that list! That's a really good list for visiting birds ;D When I was at Mum's today, she had several birds I couldn't identify, I love watching the birds, especially at Mum's young Sparrows with a parent, flapping wings for food. Lovely to watch ;D I grew up here, FC, so I know I am fighting a losing battle, to get even 50% close!  This is it expanded out further, you can see I am really up against it!   |
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Post by floweringcherry on Jul 11, 2008 11:32:38 GMT 1
That looks like a lovely place to spend your childhood. |
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Post by madonplants on Jul 11, 2008 11:53:38 GMT 1
That looks like a lovely place to spend your childhood. It was! I was only about five minutes walk from a large badger sett. It was a tied cottage, as my Dad worked as one of the two gardeners at the Big House, so they are not there any longer. It is slightly different from when we lived there, but I used to play golf in that field, while nightingales sang close by. Still would love to know what this is! Any ideas? It wasn't there before!  And no silly comments like an alien landind site, Sleepy!! ;D |
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Post by Sleepy on Jul 11, 2008 12:01:45 GMT 1
That looks like a lovely place to spend your childhood. It was! I was only about five minutes walk from a large badger sett. It was a tied cottage, as my Dad worked as one of the two gardeners at the Big House, so they are not there any longer. It is slightly different from when we lived there, but I used to play golf in that field, while nightingales sang close by. Still would love to know what this is! Any ideas? It wasn't there before! And no silly comments like an alien landind site, Sleepy!! ;D Silly? This coming from a man who has been abducted twice and sired countless alien nippers??? Of course it's an alien landind (technical term) site! |
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Post by emseypop on Jul 11, 2008 17:33:22 GMT 1
is that a person in the shot, maybe its a bunker?
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Post by debidoos on Jul 11, 2008 19:34:55 GMT 1
A training spot for Dressage for horses?
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Post by 4pygmies on Jul 12, 2008 8:11:11 GMT 1
I have a little family of baby sparrows here who have obviously not long left the nest. They often sit on the wooden bench right by the kitchen window ...they are sooo gorgeous... and I'm sure I saw a pair of goldcrests sitting in the Wayfaring tree this week. I'm still filling up the hangers regularly - the spotted Woodpeckers are regular visitors but I haven't seen any young ones this year with them yet..still, there are sooo many birds about atm - no shortage of them here!
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Post by bogmyrtle on Jul 24, 2008 8:28:23 GMT 1
A juvenile green woodpecker this morning after the ants in the front lawn & drive ;D
We haven't seen them around lately so it was great to see him/her. I tried to take a photograph but it wouldn't focus through the window. He flew off when hubby went out to work and we could hear him 'cackling' in the oak trees at the cricket club opposite!
A happy Myrtle today and what a great start to the day (well I enjoyed seeing him!)
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Post by debbiem on Jul 24, 2008 9:19:39 GMT 1
What a lovely start indeed Myrtle! We have the odd surprise visitor in the odd blue or coal tit, siskin - they are the yellow ones aren't they? And tiny birds with huge tails which I think must be wrens or dunnocks? But the out and out stayers are the resident doves in the huge Horse Chestnut which overlooks our garden, a resident blackbird and the crows and seagulls. Seagulls are beautful birds but a right pain in the ar*e! |
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Post by madonplants on Jul 24, 2008 12:51:36 GMT 1
A juvenile green woodpecker this morning after the ants in the front lawn & drive ;D We haven't seen them around lately so it was great to see him/her. I tried to take a photograph but it wouldn't focus through the window. He flew off when hubby went out to work and we could hear him 'cackling' in the oak trees at the cricket club opposite! A happy Myrtle today and what a great start to the day (well I enjoyed seeing him!) Have you not got your OH trained yet? Once you have the photo, then he can go to work! ;D Have you got a manual focus on your camera? If not, you could try moving the camera so close to the window, that it's auto focus won't be able to focus on the window, but at what is outside. Hope that makes sense. I have ended up taking shots with the camera lense frame, actually touching the window, before, even though I have manual focus on mine as well as the auto function. Great sight though, I have never seen a young one before. |
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I have lots of pigeons, jackdaws and crows visiting my garden at the moment, but I still have lots of 'nice birds' as well. ;D
