Our Garden Birds

[sweetpea]

Costing a fortune these fatballs
Anyone want a tub?

[daitheplant]

Give them to your local allotment site Jim.

[SueA]

You must have some very chubby birds flying/waddling around near your house sweetpea!

[grindle]

we use our spare ones at the garden club shed for people wanting fertilisers

[Bess]

Our youngest cat is having far too much fun with our new garden. Keep getting gifted mice (dead, is fine) but also birds - not so dead. Was very mad to be given a wren on Sunday, which sadly died quickly - but now I've got a young pigeon sitting in a box in the garage. Seems strong and OK, just can't get off the ground. I guess I'll see if it's able to take off in the morning. No idea what i'll do with it if it can't...

[SueA]

If there's a vet nearby Bess they will usually take in a wild bird & treat it but it might be in shock & pass away in the night even if it looks O.K. now, you can only try your best & cats will be cats.

[Bess]

Thanks SueA - I did give the Vet a ring for advice actually after reading that. But, in the long run Young Pidge seemed strong and calm this morning, so Mum-in-law took him home with her. She's got a cat free, bird friendly garden, and when she let him out the box to see if he could fly, he flew into one of her apple trees and seems fine now I guess he was just bruised and disorientated last night as it was getting dark. She's got plenty of bird food for him (we haven't got feeders sorted out yet) and now she'll probably end up with a really fat pigeon she doesn't particularly want in her veg patch

[SueA]

That's good news Bess, the pigeon probably thinks it's been sent away on holiday to recuperate!
This morning when I was looking out of the window whilst getting breakfast I saw a couple of magpies fly into the oak tree behind the garden & then they flew out chasing after a sparrowhawk & then a huge swan flew over the garden!

[grindle]

I was pleased to see new birds in the garden, Chiff chaffs and coal tits

[SueA]

We have had a couple of coal tits here grindle, they take seeds from the feeders & hide them one by one in the trees & shrubs to eat later - don't know if they ever remember where they've put them!

[grindle]

I see mine take the sunflower seed and sit in the trees and eat them

[Andrew]

The robin was busy here yesterday taking the mealworms off the feeding station.

[ziggy]

Hi All,

I thought I would try to snap some photos of my garden birds this morning to introduce them to you. They are the usual suspects though, nothing unusual here.

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[ziggy]

And some more:

[Andrew]

A bird related story I just had to share with you....

I popped into Wilko's this morning in Nottingham (in the Broadmarsh Shopping Centre for anyone who knows it) on my way to work. Just as I'm walking along the bird feeders/food aisle, I look down at the floor to see a pigeon come strutting round the corner towards me!