The mild weather over the last month has seen a dearth of the usual suspects at the bird feeders. Last winter at this time the bad weather had brought in throngs of siskins, linnets and bramblings alongside other finches. This year so far the tally has been a pair of bramblings – no siskins, no [...]
I took the time last week to take down the bird boxes and give them a bit of maintenance. First task is to remove all the old nest material which will most likely be full of insect pupae and larvae. Place this in the garden where the Robins and Dunnocks can get to it.
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It has been an interesting winter again. The early bad weather brought in the usual range of suspects to the bird feeders along with a few surprises. The only problem was keeping up the supply of sunflower hearts! So without further ado and in no particular order here’s the list:
Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula
Blackbird [...]
This rather wet Sparrowhawk decided he was going to sit out the rainy morning right next to the bird feeders. He has done this a couple of times in the last few months. Now I know that a Sparrowhawk in the garden would probably worry half the people reading this post. “That Sparrowhawk will [...]
It has been an interesting winter on the bird feeders with the usual range of tits and finches overthrown by a gang of siskins. From February until last week we had at least 40 of these feisty little birds take over the feeders. Neither bullfinch nor great tit was safe from these little brawlers as [...]
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