Our Garden Birds

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,696	Our Garden Birds Apr 14, 2015 5:23:48 GMT peony and SueA like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Apr 14, 2015 5:23:48 GMT I saw some of my long tailed tits back in the garden yesterday, love watching them

diggie Senior Member Posts: 326	Our Garden Birds Apr 15, 2015 16:07:25 GMT grindle, peony, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by diggie on Apr 15, 2015 16:07:25 GMT Have just seen a Red Kite swooping over the garden about 6 metres above the ground. What a magnificent site. Never seen one in this area before.

SueA Global Moderator Posts: 17,877	Our Garden Birds Apr 15, 2015 19:34:53 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SueA on Apr 15, 2015 19:34:53 GMT I've only ever seen those when we've been on holiday diggie, you're very lucky! We do have lots of buzzards around here though & we get the odd one gliding around over the field at the back of us.

diggie Senior Member Posts: 326	Our Garden Birds Apr 23, 2015 22:08:00 GMT grindle, peony, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by diggie on Apr 23, 2015 22:08:00 GMT Heard the first cuckoo this spring today.

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,696	Our Garden Birds Apr 24, 2015 5:01:09 GMT peony, SueA, and 1 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Apr 24, 2015 5:01:09 GMT sat yesterday watching a pair of very nervous chaffinches on the bird table and a dunnock at the base of it rooting around, and a very bossy baby robin letting them know it was his territory

Cherry Global Moderator Posts: 17,940	Our Garden Birds Apr 24, 2015 16:59:47 GMT grindle, peony, and 2 more like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Cherry on Apr 24, 2015 16:59:47 GMT I now have a Jay visiting regularly every day. This is the first one here, but it has been around for about two weeks. Quite exciting.

grindle Top Member Tamar Valley Posts: 19,696	Our Garden Birds Apr 25, 2015 3:58:07 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by grindle on Apr 25, 2015 3:58:07 GMT I don't get jays in the garden but see them in the woods where I walk Dylan, they are very pretty birds

steve Global Moderator From Sunny Ilkeston Posts: 6,710	Our Garden Birds Apr 27, 2015 15:53:48 GMT grindle and daitheplant like this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by steve on Apr 27, 2015 15:53:48 GMT Be careful when Jay walking Grindle
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Our Garden Birds Apr 30, 2015 12:56:49 GMT Cherry and SueA like this

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Post by KC on Apr 30, 2015 12:56:49 GMT

We've either a very silly bird or a very intelligent bird building a nest on top of our letter box right at our front door. Unsure what it is yet, we just woke up this morning and the nest was there, nothing last night at 10, but this morning at 7 there is was. Fast workers!

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Our Garden Birds Apr 30, 2015 17:12:48 GMT

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Post by sweetpea on Apr 30, 2015 17:12:48 GMT

Our resident herring gull has finally plucked up courage to join the pigeons Jackdaws crows and magpies at their morning feed of leftover catfood and bread which I put out first thing.

What surprised me was the pigeons eating the catfood but they seem to like it. They and the small birds get seeds. Will keep on putting the peanuts out as well.

I'll get around to it eventually

derekbrooks Top Member Posts: 6,443	Our Garden Birds May 5, 2015 20:33:25 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by derekbrooks on May 5, 2015 20:33:25 GMT Great tits started nesting in our box yesterday. They usually start a lot earlier than this. Perhaps they have had an unsuccessful attempt somewhere else.

KC Top Member Posts: 758	Our Garden Birds May 6, 2015 9:20:21 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by KC on May 6, 2015 9:20:21 GMT Birds nest down again, unsure if it was abandoned or blew down in wind, doubt the latter though as it's not windy in our porch were the letter box is that the nest was on top of.
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Our Garden Birds May 6, 2015 20:01:41 GMT

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Maybe they realised it wasn't very stable when they tried to use it KC. There is a birds nest in our street on the path across the road which must have come down in the gales on Tuesday, it's empty but I don't know if the birds had fledged, I saw a cat sitting underneath the tree it had been in last week as it must have been able to hear them.

KC Top Member Posts: 758	Our Garden Birds May 7, 2015 9:17:52 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by KC on May 7, 2015 9:17:52 GMT Oh dear SueA I hope the wee birds got away from the cat.
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Our Garden Birds May 7, 2015 11:52:59 GMT

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May 6, 2015 20:01:41 GMT SueA said:

Maybe they realised it wasn't very stable when they tried to use it KC. There is a birds nest in our street on the path across the road which must have come down in the gales on Tuesday, it's empty but I don't know if the birds had fledged, I saw a cat sitting underneath the tree it had been in last week as it must have been able to hear them.

The blackbirds I told you about who have built a nest on top of the blue tit box are still there. I think they must have fledglings now as I've seen the female going into the nest with a beak full of food. There are no blue tits in the nest box, must have been discouraged by the neighbours in the flat above!

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