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Post by whisker on Feb 12, 2016 20:33:01 GMT
What slipped my mind was the starlings! How could anyone forget these noisy greedy birds!
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Post by SueA on Feb 12, 2016 20:54:05 GMT
You don't have any seagulls then whisker (whisker Avatar)?  My O.H. calls the starlings here the 'punk gang', they all fly down grabbing everything in sight, something spooks them & then they all fly off in all directions.  |
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Post by whisker on Feb 12, 2016 21:01:24 GMT
You don't have any seagulls then whisker (whisker Avatar)? My O.H. calls the starlings here the 'punk gang', they all fly down grabbing everything in sight, something spooks them & then they all fly off in all directions. I have seagulls in the sky and resting on the telegraph wires, but they never seem to come down into my garden. The starlings land on a large tree behind my house. There happens to be a magpies' nest in the tree. The magpies keep shoo-ing the starlings away. LOL! |
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Post by SueA on Feb 13, 2016 8:57:52 GMT
We actually have gulls here too whisker, they're often flying over the field at the back of us & they land there occasionally but never in our garden either, we're nowhere near the sea but have a canal, rivers & farmland nearby. We have buzzards flying over & herons too - pity we can't put them on the bird surveys !  |
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Post by peony on Feb 13, 2016 10:08:50 GMT
A little gang of long tailed Tits were on the sunflower seed feeder this morning, the first I've seen this winter, also saw a Great Spotted Woodpecker hammering away on next door's sweet chestnut tree |
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Post by grindle on Feb 15, 2016 7:31:48 GMT
I was really pleased yesterday morning to see a song thrush in the garden, haven't had one around for years He picked up a snail and ran to the wall to get his prize |
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Post by SueA on Feb 15, 2016 8:43:38 GMT
That's lovely to hear grindle, I haven't seen one for years & years either, we did get a single visit from a mistle thrush at the top of the tree in our old garden a few years ago but never get song thrushes at all now. |
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Post by grindle on Feb 15, 2016 9:05:31 GMT
they really are in drastic decline aren't they SueA , my other half was wondering why I got so excited at seeing one   |
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Post by sweetpea on Feb 15, 2016 13:44:00 GMT
been watching the starlings squabbling as usual among themselves.
I think if they spent less time chasing each other away from the food they would fare much better. Still, that's pecking order for you.
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Post by Rosie on Feb 15, 2016 19:48:38 GMT
That's lovely to hear grindle, I haven't seen one for years & years either, we did get a single visit from a mistle thrush at the top of the tree in our old garden a few years ago but never get song thrushes at all now. I remember a farmer telling me that they used to shoot Mistle Thrushes as they considered them to be bad luck   |
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Post by SueA on Feb 15, 2016 20:36:00 GMT
That's awful Rosie , never heard of that before. I think they'd get prosecuted if anyone saw them. |
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Post by grindle on Feb 16, 2016 5:30:00 GMT
that's not good at all rosie  |
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Post by whisker on Feb 16, 2016 17:53:34 GMT
So much for old superstitions from the past!
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Post by Rosie on Feb 23, 2016 10:56:51 GMT
Awful isn't it. I hope it doesn't happen today, I would shop anyone doing anything like like that.
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Post by SueA on Feb 24, 2016 21:26:32 GMT
Quite a lot of birds around today, a greenfinch & 6 goldfinches in the oak tree behind the garden, 2 great tits & 2 bluetits in the ivy, the robin & wren, a dunnock, 3 blackbirds squabbling, starlings, woodpigeon & a collared dove. There would have been 2 collared doves but when I opened the side door to go to the bins there was an audible 'whoosh' as a sparrowhawk flew past my head with what looked like a collared dove in it's talons! It zoomed over the garage & I went down to the end of the garden to see if it was there but it wasn't so I stood on a log & peered over the fence - it was there with it's kill but flew off with it when it saw me. |
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