Garden Birds and wild birds thread.

[Paladin]

A peacock and a few goats in my holiday garden.

 

[Tanzeylee]

I get a lovely pair of tits on my fat balls most days


I sometimes feed the sparrows too
It gives me a sense of enormous well-being…

 

[salford blue 62]

Just had a Magpie chasing a Woodpecker off the feeders in my garden
Is this normal,as the Woodpecker is a large bird ?

 

[kippaxoldboy]

Just had a Magpie chasing a Woodpecker off the feeders in my garden
Is this normal,as the Woodpecker is a large bird ?

Size isn`t everything. If you want aggressive birds look no further than a Robin.

I was going to add something funny like, or the birds from Clayton/Miles Platting/Ashton (you know the sort of thing )

 

[KS55]

Still no sign of swallows, swifts or martins. Are they subject to lockdown?

 

[kaz7]

Aside from songbirds and foxes and the odd badger it is quiet in the evenings , the fights and the tensions has taken over now, i miss the big gang of badgers

 

[andyhinch]

Still no sign of swallows, swifts or martins. Are they subject to lockdown?

Plenty here ?

 

[shemnel]

getting annoyed with the sparrows now, just dominate everything and recently have started to gorge on the food they have never even touched before.

 

[KS55]

Plenty here ?

I'm told there are some in southern England but in nothing like the usual numbers. Not seen any in northern England

 

[Newman Noggs]

Still no sign of swallows, swifts or martins. Are they subject to lockdown?

Plenty in Warwick/Leamington

 

[blue whippet]

Still no sign of swallows, swifts or martins. Are they subject to lockdown?

I've seen swifts flying around in my part of Bury.

 

[andyhinch]

I'm told there are some in southern England but in nothing like the usual numbers. Not seen any in northern England

I only live in Wilmslow seen them flying about for about a week

 

[KS55]

At last! Martins have arrived almost two months late. I shall go to the river and look for swallows.
Hope they have time to breed sucessfully and the young are strong enough to fly south.

 

[kaz7]

Two fox cubs , dad has a black bit on the end of his tail so does one cub and one has a white bit on the tail like its mum,

Dad was in charge a couple of nights ago , he sat barking at one to come back to him but the cub wasnt having it , kids eh , ha

The cubs are used to me being at the window chucking food out so they eat on the spot whilst the mum picks it up and takes it away

No big groups of badgers sadly , after the two attacks on zabba the garden has been tense ,i still see glimses of zabba , he lays low so doesnt come to the window till about midnight and quiet , i miss them but that is nature , it has been a privelige to be so close , it is nice to see the foxes run the garden for once

 

[Marklr]

Two fox cubs , dad has a black bit on the end of his tail so does one cub and one has a white bit on the tail like its mum,

Dad was in charge a couple of nights ago , he sat barking at one to come back to him but the cub wasnt having it , kids eh , ha

The cubs are used to me being at the window chucking food out so they eat on the spot whilst the mum picks it up and takes it away

No big groups of badgers sadly , after the two attacks on zabba the garden has been tense ,i still see glimses of zabba , he lays low so doesnt come to the window till about midnight and quiet , i miss them but that is nature , it has been a privelige to be so close , it is nice to see the foxes run the garden for once

Do you live in a wildlife reserve?

 

[KS55]

Do you live in a wildlife reserve?

Only INSIDE the house.

 

[remember arthur mann]

I only live in Wilmslow seen them flying about for about a week

Only live in Wilmslow ! Well posh. On Rossmere at the moment, well chilly.

 

[andyhinch]

Only live in Wilmslow ! Well posh. On Rossmere at the moment, well chilly.

Was nice earlier had a brew in the garden, clouded over now.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

Do you live in a wildlife reserve?

She lives on the set for Spring Watch ;)

 

[kaz7]

Do you live in a wildlife reserve?

No, just lucky to live where i do ,i have given my massive garden to the foxes , badgers and the rest and my reward is to see them close up , even hand fed zabba the badger when he was a baby up to a year old when he got attacked twice recently ,now he keeps a low profile