Inundated with birds in the garden

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  1. JLWBigLil

    JLWBigLil Well-Known Member

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    After I put fresh food out for them earlier. Meal worms are a special favourite with the blackbirds and robins. I take more pleasure from watching them all than any television programme.:D
     
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    On my way home from work yesterday I must have seen thirty Magpies in the trees on the railway embankment next to Monkhill station. I thought it was like a Hitchcock thriller.
     
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    any tits?
     
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    I'm just appreciative that we're not suffering like some with the number of birds visiting their garden.
    We have a particular blackbird that chases off any magpies or wood pigeons if they interrupt his feeding time!:D
     
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    JLWBigLil Well-Known Member

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    Blue & Great.
     
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    Which birds of prey hover over farmers fields. I see one regular out of our kitchen window?
     
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    JLWBigLil Well-Known Member

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    Kestrels are the most obvious ones.
     
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    I put two different type of bird feeders up a few weeks ago and nothing has been near them.
     
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    They certainly are ;)
     
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    Maybe it's down to temperatures effecting migrations.
     
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    That's great mate. I think it's to do with the fact that they're in your garden as a result of your efforts to put the food out. On the TV, well they're just on the TV :)
     
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    Long here. Just sayin'.
     
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    They are very picky!
     
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    When we still had our dogs, it was wonderful watching them laid down outside, with the sparrows happily hopping round them. The dogs never bothered them.:D
     
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    Lovely story mate :D:D
     
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    That's a lot of saluting,,,
     
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    Sable, our German Shepherd dog, was huge and could've squashed them without noticing. Yet the little birds were quite relaxed and happy to be in her company.
     
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    Not surprising this weather :D
    Love watching the birds feeding but inundated with cats round here and it’s heartbreaking at times .
     
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    Get the creosote out.
     
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    Inundated with Starlings at the Gilroyd end. Not my favourite bird.
     
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