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Post by peony on Aug 3, 2011 13:35:42 GMT
My birds are slowing down now i haven't seen that many coming down for food now. Same here Floydie, they've all gone into hiding while they moult. I keep finding feathers round the garden  |
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Aug 3, 2011 15:09:15 GMT
They are not slowing down here. They are munching through 6kg of fat balls a week plus peanuts, oats, seeds and fruit. It is a good job they don't turn their nose up at 'value' products.
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Post by Louise on Aug 3, 2011 18:28:42 GMT
;D i agree !
Wilkos cheap suet blocks and economy sunflower hearts here !
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Post by Louise on Aug 14, 2011 7:29:11 GMT
Update on the sunflower heart chips ..... The birds have eaten them, and not just tossed them onto the floor, so a lot less mess under the feeders but ...... They don't half clog up the seed feeders  I'll not be using them in seed feeders again, i'll put them into the square mesh, flat surface feeders because i'm spending ages unclogging the ****dy feeding ports  This has been a good season for the greenfinches because there are more young ones here than i've seen for ages, last year there seemed to be a drop in numbers and the linnets overtook them ! |
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Post by Louise on Aug 15, 2011 6:58:13 GMT
In the near distance this morning i could hear a Peregrine. I know of one nest site in the town, would there be more, i'd think probably not - territory and all ..... Their sound is SO unmistakeable that i recognise it anywhere ! Nature's a wonderful thing - you can't help wondering whose fate is next though  |
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Post by Louise on Sept 1, 2011 7:21:04 GMT
The birds are eating enormous amounts of food at the moment, i think they're building up their reserves good and proper  Something else now .... Would you nail a small creatures to a log just to feed the larger birds  I read something earlier which quite shocked me, just for a photo opportunity there had been a mouse nailed to a log to attract a sparrowhawk for a photo op, a jay got it instead though ...... taking things too far, i thought I sincerely hope the poor thing was dead first |
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Post by wildlifefriendly on Sept 1, 2011 7:48:22 GMT
I have a nasty feeling that a sparrow hawk is one of the birds of prey which wont take carrion. I hope I'm wrong.
My birds are slowing down with their eating now.
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Post by Rosie on Sept 1, 2011 8:00:27 GMT
The birds here are eating me out of house and home, but we do have a large flock of sparrows and they can eat like crazy, the blue and great tits pick the sunflower seeds out of the feeder and sit on the branch and eat it, they don't half hammer at the seed to get the cover off, i wonder if they ever peck their toes instead ;D
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Post by peony on Sept 1, 2011 10:22:12 GMT
My blue tits and great tits are eating lots of sunflower seeds and I've seen some nuthatches eating them as well, but still not many blackbirds around, I think they are still moulting by the amount of feathers I've seen around the garden.
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Post by Cherry on Sept 1, 2011 17:23:35 GMT
The birds are eating enormous amounts of food at the moment, i think they're building up their reserves good and proper Something else now .... Would you nail a small creatures to a log just to feed the larger birds I read something earlier which quite shocked me, just for a photo opportunity there had been a mouse nailed to a log to attract a sparrowhawk for a photo op, a jay got it instead though ...... taking things too far, i thought I sincerely hope the poor thing was dead first That is pretty bad. The mice were mentioned in Garden Answers this month as a part of wildlife that humans have an aversion to. Why should we, when they could be seen to be cute. (Just not in the house.) I always get a bit upset when the fields are harvested because of the mice which rely on the crops. |
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Post by SueA on Sept 1, 2011 17:34:25 GMT
There was a dead baby mouse in our ginnel at the side of the house this morning, I don't think it was our cat - she would have left it on the doorstep! I felt really sorry for it, it was a lovely tiny little thing, not eaten - just soggy as though it had been 'played' with.
The sparrows are eating me out of house & home too & there have been a few bluetits, coal tits & goldcrests in the garden too in the trees. The sparrowhawk has been around a couple of times as well because the sparrows make so much noise fighting over the seed & their positions in the tree!
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