Our Garden Birds

Great pics SueA it was me that said about the wood pigeons eating everything. The magpies here is rather adept at negotiating the fat square and ball feeders. I've seen black n white crows years ago but not recently. I've only seen 1 thrush here in two years - they're brilliant slug busters

OH WOW! That's a brilliant photos steve

Aww, hope they're O.K. in all the cold steve.

Te he he - yes they do look like your avatar steve

Heartbreaking yesterday, a magpie was raiding the nests in the conifer tree at the end of next door's garden & all the parent birds were screaming & jumping around on the fence & greenhouse next door, there are blackbirds, coal tits, sparrows & various other little birds nesting in there. I wouldn't wish any ill on the magpies but the poor little birds have spent the last week trying to protect their eggs & young from the atrocious weather - snow, hail, rain, wind & their efforts will come to nothing. They're very resilient though & will just try again & again until they manage to fledge some young. I have seen a young robin pottering around which has reached independence so there is hope!

All our birds screech. There are flocks of black cockatoos and lots of colourful birds, but I miss the birdsong in my Norfolk garden. Treasure your birds.

SueA so sad - I remember a few years back a crow swooped and took a young blackbird off the roof where it was standing with its mother - the sounds were terrible I covered my ears