Our Garden Birds

[Rosie]

This morning we have had a fairly big flock of long tail tits, goldfinches, spuggies, woodpeckers and a buzzard sitting on a tree!

[sweetpea]

With the weather the way it was today my little hanging bird feeder was blowing about so badly it rendered it useless so will have to find a way of securing it whilst still easy to remove for cleaning.
perhaps Velcro patches but will have to wait until the weather dries up a bit.

[Rosie]

Our feeder was like that sweetpea. I used a length of soft tie and its held great and easy to remove for cleaning.

[SueA]

Little pied wagtail in the garden this morning, never seen one actually in the garden here before, it was pottering around eating mealworms I'd put out & being watched by the squirrel who was tucking into birdfood & peanuts next to it. Not a very good photo, long shot through the patio doors.

[sweetpea]

saw a pair of red kites yesterday. fairly common visitors in this part of the country.

[SueA]

Little flock of longtail tits in the garden the other day, about 5 or 6 who keep visiting, I love the stare on the one at the top of the pic., looks a bit like a miniature owl, saying 'who you looking at?!'



and a wren having a bad hair day in the wind:-

[grindle]

great photos SueA I love the long tailed tits, such pretty birds

[grindle]

got quite excited this morning as I had a thrush, chaffinch and reed buntings in my garden, no photos, didn't have the camera with me

[SueA]

I've never seen reed buntings in our garden grindle, I'd never seen them at all until last year when we spotted a flock of them up the moss here so they must be in our area. We had the flock of longtail tits back in the garden yesterday all tweeting away in the ivy tree near the arbour where I was fixing the baskets back up, they were just pottering about next to me.

[grindle]

I'd never seen them either SueA I had to look them up, thought at first it was sparrows, they are still here, and I'm loving seeing a new bird in the garden, not sure, but they will probably disappear once the weather warms up. My long tail tits are around too, love watching them

[SueA]

Little goldfinch (still hanging around by itself) & the robin enjoying a snack the other day.

[SueA]

Little wren building a nest in a roost pocket on the patio yesterday, they often start building in it but I don't think they ever use it, just a trial site!

[SueA]

I was going to cut down the 2 remaining clumps of teasels in the back garden the other day as I'd grown them with the goldfinches in mind but they hadn't been near them all winter, looked out of the window to see these 2:-







- I've decided to leave them for now!

[Cherry]

Just in time SueA. You always manage beautiful pics of wildlife.

[grindle]

I agree, they're great pictures. Good job you waited SueA I do see them around but never in the garden, they sit on the wires and in the trees, but rarely come into the garden