Our Garden Birds

[daisy]

Feb 29, 2016 23:03:41 GMT sweetpea said:

Brilliant pic daisy.
Today I spent about 5 minutes watching a wren investigating every nook & cranny in our back wall. might have been a male searching out a nesting site.
Seen more than one wren around the house lately. Like little feathered mice.

Thanks sweetpea

[daisy]

They look like they will fall over with their tails facing upward :-))

[sweetpea]

Feb 29, 2016 23:07:23 GMT daisy said:

They look like they will fall over with their tails facing upward :-))

I seem to remember a few wrens doing just that! mostly round Devonport Dockyard or possibly Pompey

[daisy]

They are just so little I'm not surprised :-)) I have the same problem standing up in heavy gales to.

[lesley]

Lovely picture daisy, the mouse wouldn't stand a chance with 'Levi'the cat

[daisy]

Mar 1, 2016 8:06:41 GMT lesley said:

Lovely picture daisy, the mouse wouldn't stand a chance with 'Levi'the cat

Thanks lesley :-))

[Rosie]

I was watching the birds through the kitchen window, 2 robins came in and they started stretching and puffing up their feathers and waving their heads side to side. I discovered it was their mating ritual, I have never seen that before and hope we get baby Robins eventually

[whisker]

That's a lot of birds, SueA
It's still very cold here, so this morning, I've just had my usual, who come to eat at my bird table i.e. 3 magpies and two hooded crows. Also have a couple of blackbirds, which the magpies chase away. Have a couple of robins, who have built a nest in my overgrown clematis.

[SueA]

The birds are all definitely gearing up for breeding here, I was watching them in the snow yesterday & the blackbird was building a nest in next door's tree, 2 dunnocks were hopping about on the grass & the wren was popping in & out of a roosting pocket I hung in the clematis on the wall alongside the patio with bits of possible nesting material in it's beak - the only problem was a coal tit was popping in it too inbetween so there might be a fight in the offing!

[whisker]

LOL! that was fun. I had visits from Mr. and Mrs. blackbird today - looking very much like they are considering nesting in my garden.

[grindle]

I wonder which one of them will win the new home SueA
I had a pied wagtail in making sure nothing else was going to get to the food near the pond, haven't had one in the garden for ages

[joysie21]

Whisker
I wish the birds would nest in my clematis its a white one is it the montana?? which is overgrown Im not cutting it back till the flowers which are very poor this year finishes

[whisker]

Hi, joysie21! A couple of years ago a pair of blackbirds nested in that clematis bush. The day the babies attempted to fledge a local feral cat went to town on them. I don't know whether any survived. The blackbirds never nested there again. Hope the robins fare better.

[SueA]

I bought another bird box today in Tesco for £5 & put it up because the coal tit was popping in & out of all the ornamental ones in the garden looking for somewhere suitable. I looked in the roosting pocket on the patio & there is a neat little pile of leaves in the corner of it but I think maybe that it's just one of the wren's trial nests.

[whisker]

That will be fun to watch, SueA