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As the title, a few sparrows a black bird or two and just pigeons, I have had the feeder going all through the winter as well, very quiet this year, I haven't even seen 1 starling yet?
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No I haven't seen many Starlings either, got Male and Female Blackbirds, Song Thrushes, all sort of ----, wrens, Sparrows Chaffinch, Robins, a solitary Tree Creeper and beleive it or not Goldcrest may have been a Firecrest never could tell the difference appeared in the Pines over the garden fence in the pine trees, wonderful sight it was too. Oh and wood Pidgeons by the bucketful, get a smashing Dawn Chorus as well.
Spying on your neighbours sunbathing topless are you?
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Thats nice Pete, I haven't seen anything really, really strange this year, last year I had gold ---- on the feeder as well as finch's, well I can only hope they come back.
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Better off getting a decent air rifle with a good scope and take him out with a nice clean head shot.
Just knew some Div would make a smutty comment
That was Breakfast sorted then?From the racket he's making, he must be wearing a Kevlar helmet.
Think I might of accidently killed off some Robins the other week, getting me lawn mower out. Parents had nested & I scared them off the nest. Eggs were in the nest. Checked three days later eggs gone & no shells
Sorry didn't see the Robin eggs bit, couldn't really have fried them could you?
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I can lend you my rifle, his helment won't stop a pellet from this bad boyFrom the racket he's making, he must be wearing a Kevlar helmet.
Think I might of accidently killed off some Robins the other week, getting me lawn mower out. Parents had nested & I scared them off the nest. Eggs were in the nest. Checked three days later eggs gone & no shells
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Could be mate, I hope so, I do like the song birds in the garden.
To right we don't have the diverse bird life like other countries, but what we have is worth protecting, I was a bit of an Ornithologist in my early teens, not a twitcher but just interested, spent most of my Scholl holidays bird nestin, no didn't take eggs, must be the country boy in me.
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The "blxxdy" birds wake me up a dawn every day ............ very annoying this time of year!
The noise from my bedroom window is unbelievable along with the lambs in the field at the end of the garden.
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I don't take anything out, it is for target shooting, but it will drop a rabbit at 45 yards no problem.
A couple of years back we had a week in the lake district in a converted barn that turned out to be on a working sheep farm. The dawn "chorus" of a few hundred of them about 30 yards from the bedroom window sort of lost it's novelty by the third day..
Like a bit of Lamb do you Andy?A couple of years back we had a week in the lake district in a converted barn that turned out to be on a working sheep farm. The dawn "chorus" of a few hundred of them about 30 yards from the bedroom window sort of lost it's novelty by the third day..
You are trying to tempt me mate.... I'm not falling for it.. I'm saying nothing..
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Your not Welsh so why be tempted lol?
I do on my plate, but not when it's shouting at me while I'm trying to have a lie in. Not that it would be in bed with me you understand, I was on about the ones outside my bedroom. Not that I keep sheep outside my bedroom you understand, I was on about the ones shouting at me on holiday. Not that I'd done anything wrong to make them shout at me you understand........
Andy, you nearly dropped yourself in it there Mate, what goes on in the bedroom stays in the bedroom, that is only if you keep the door shut when you go out.
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weather has a lot to do with it. excessive heat can interfere with the mating cycle of birds. also availability of clean water.
raising poultry has taught me that, and egg production improved when we installed low speed exhaust fans in the hen house.
oh and funny as it sounds they like low volume classical music during the day and ocean sounds at night.
although i had a peach face love bird who would dance up a storm whenever i played Def Leopard or Styx cd's but then again he was a bit odd. he got along great with my 2 cats,
sadly the old fellow passed away last year.
raising poultry has taught me that, and egg production improved when we installed low speed exhaust fans in the hen house.
oh and funny as it sounds they like low volume classical music during the day and ocean sounds at night.
although i had a peach face love bird who would dance up a storm whenever i played Def Leopard or Styx cd's but then again he was a bit odd. he got along great with my 2 cats,
sadly the old fellow passed away last year.
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Have noticed a fair few Robins about still, chicks only just being born in a lot of nests.
If you see a lot of magpies around your area, that can be why songbird numbers are low, they smash the eggs, so guys put Larsen traps down to catch them.
If you see a lot of magpies around your area, that can be why songbird numbers are low, they smash the eggs, so guys put Larsen traps down to catch them.
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Central London Zone 2, I have Robins, Starlings, Black Birds, Jays, Magpies, Collared Dove, Pigeons, Wood Pigeons, Finches, Great --- and Wrens as well as Squirrels who dig holes in the lawn and Foxes who dig even larger holes........ grrrrrrrr
Saw a Great Spotted Woodpecker going through my apple tree last week, tree must be ill as the are know as the "tree doctor"
Funniest story my friend from Poland told me was there was an almighty noise from her living room from the wood burner (it wasn't on) and it seems that an owl fell through the chimney in to it she opened the door and had to chase a sooted up owl around the living room before catching it and releasing it in to the forest opposite the house.
Saw a Great Spotted Woodpecker going through my apple tree last week, tree must be ill as the are know as the "tree doctor"
Funniest story my friend from Poland told me was there was an almighty noise from her living room from the wood burner (it wasn't on) and it seems that an owl fell through the chimney in to it she opened the door and had to chase a sooted up owl around the living room before catching it and releasing it in to the forest opposite the house.
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The girl friend saw a strange bug in her room the other day turned out to be a stag beetle which I caught and put out in the garden,
it's a ---.
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these little guys !
comical as hell to watch and one of the few birds that stays around our place throughout the winter.
Black-capped Chickadee Identification, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-capped_Chickadee/id
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