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Post by sweetpea on Apr 9, 2016 17:44:26 GMT
The pecking order here seems to be as follows; When the leftover cat food goes out in the morning along with any bread etc. the first one down is the magpies then some pigeons and jackdaws then the herring gulls who have been waiting in the wings (no pun intended) They sit on top of two telegraph poles and when they come down they get followed by a couple of crows. Sometimes a blackbird will join in and when the starlings are around they join in too.
The little birds tend to stay by the feeders and not join in the melee.
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Post by whisker on Apr 9, 2016 22:22:32 GMT
It's exactly the same for me sweetpea - except for the seagulls. They sit on the electric wires, but don't come down into the garden. |
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Post by Bess on Apr 12, 2016 20:05:13 GMT
There was a duck sitting on the roof of the bungalow next door today. I did a total double take, as we aren't near much water I know of, and on a biggish housing estate. Am going to have to look on Google maps and see if there's a pond I don't know about! I had heard ducks quacking, a couple of evenings out in the garden, but thought I was going a bit potty... or someone nearby had a pet. But this was a Mallard (or mostly Mallard) drake. I am chuffed we have ducks, I love them.
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Post by whisker on Apr 12, 2016 22:16:42 GMT
What a lovely surprise, Bess! |
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Post by SueA on Apr 13, 2016 7:30:15 GMT
You'll have to put a pond in your garden Bess!  |
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Post by Bess on Apr 14, 2016 20:34:37 GMT
Would be nice, wouldn't it? In fact my husband said that he would like to do that as a project. We just have to work out where to put one, being on terraces/slopes, a waterfall might be easier  I'm really enjoying being able to see the birds again since we moved here. I can ID the 'common' ones but think I'll have to get me a book about the others. I'd like to know what bird it is makes 'tut tut tut tut' noises at me out in the garden - can't see it but it doesn't half scold me! |
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Post by SueA on Apr 14, 2016 21:18:22 GMT
It might be a blackbird with a nest Bess, they shout a lot when anything gets too close if the have young. I'm allowed down near ours as they're used to me but if O.H. gets too close they shout at him & if a cat walks along the fence at the back they go bonkers. |
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Post by steve on Apr 15, 2016 7:48:54 GMT
I have a robin sitting eggs in the half fronted nesting box but a wren that built in the bluetits type box might have left it?
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Post by SueA on Apr 15, 2016 7:53:29 GMT
Our wren didn't use the nest it built in the clematis roost pocket either, his wife mustn't have liked the neighbourhood!  |
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Post by whisker on Apr 16, 2016 12:19:08 GMT
My robins seem to have abandoned the nest they had in the clematis. I have a newly adopted cat, suzie, who has mental issue, who jumps up on the bird-tale to eat their food. Also a neighbour up the road brought two feral cats with her when she moved in. So I don't hold out a lot of hope re birds ATM. The toughest are the magpies and the hooded crows
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Post by daisy on Apr 16, 2016 12:44:08 GMT
That is a shame whisker. I was watching a squirrel eating from the seed feeder - I thought what a shame there's only one - the words were no sooner said when along came another - the one on the feeder was upside down feeding and froze like a statue when it saw the other squirrel whom I have to say was rather none plussed about it just looked and nonchalantly walked off |
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Post by Andrew on Apr 16, 2016 20:49:37 GMT
The squirrels here wrap themselves round the nut feeder. They've virtually emptied it in a fortnight chewing the nuts through the wires. Fortunately they've not chewed through the wires yet, like they did the previous feeder.
I made some more fat balls and a block for the suet feeder today. The Robin was straight down for first pecking at the left overs which I put on the tray on the feeding station along with a few mealworms.
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Post by SueA on Apr 17, 2016 20:37:36 GMT
We've had a couple of longtail tits in the garden today, they may be nesting in next door-but-one's garden & were flying backwards & forwards. Later this afternoon I was at the end of the garden planting out & one of them decided to start flying around me trying to find bugs in the ivy tree, bug houses & arbour, it was tweeting away a couple of feet from my head & looking at me when I spoke to it, didn't realise they could be so tame! The male blackbird was sitting in the ivy tree a couple of feet above me as well watching me, probably waiting to come down & pick up any worms I unearthed.  |
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Post by grindle on Apr 18, 2016 4:21:32 GMT
I have them in my garden this year too SueA I was watching a pair of Dunnocks yesterday very busy in the garden, I think they must be nesting quite near by |
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Post by whisker on Apr 18, 2016 22:24:01 GMT
Soon as I start digging, the robins are on the scene. They seem programmed to respond to "digging"
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