Garden Birds and wild birds thread.

mancity2012_eamo said:
That’s great Sadds.
I have a garden room where I sit in and watch the birds on the feeders.
Unfortunately, having read my original post a few years ago, much of what was common in my back garden is no longer around.
I don’t see any of the finches at all. Siskin gone also. Nothing eating the Niger Seeds at all.
Still have great and blue tits but the Coal Tit has been nowhere to be seen.
Thrush- very infrequent.
Dunnocks gone.
Haven’t seen a wren in a long time although they are listed as one of the most numerous.
They are secretive by nature.

Sparrows - yes.
Blue and Great tits - yes. Blues seem to be staying permanently while the Greats raised a whole family and haven’t been seen since.
Starlings - sometimes.
Wood Pigeons- unfortunately yes.
Magpies - unfortunately yes.
Sea gulls- appear as if by magic if you put anything out on the lawn. In out and gone again.

I know there’s a sparrow hawk around but that’s seen only very fleetingly.

The robin is a year round resident but even he is not as frequent or dominant as he used to be.
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That’s a shame. We are lucky on the east coast as we get migrants as well as natives. The waxwing are particularly impressive and can hoover a Rowan tree of berries in a matter of minutes.
 
Yippee, the number of butterflies seen in our garden this year just doubled from 1 to 2. A white in June and a red admiral today. That will keep me busy with the butterfly census return.
 
idahoblues said:
Got woken up at 4.30 this morning by some Big Horned owls, I could see them lined up on the telegraph poles, they were doing a raid on the Robins who are nested up all over the place, lots of squawking. Walked out the house this morning and there was an Oriole on the hummingbird feeder
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Not old Ripkin again ;-)
 


I'm late, as usual, to the party with regards to these two. (Shadow and Jackie. Jackie is the larger of the two and has a dark spot over her right eye) I've only been watching them since Jan. It's been such a joy to see their interactions, to watch them support each other and protect their nest from dangers, especially Ravens.

From what I have read they have been using this nest for around 8 years. Over that time Jackie has laid 14 eggs but only 2 or 3 have grown to become adults. There are three eggs this year and apparently "pip watch" begins tomorrow. Keeping everything crossed.
 
Banshee said:


I'm late, as usual, to the party with regards to these two. (Shadow and Jackie. Jackie is the larger of the two and has a dark spot over her right eye) I've only been watching them since Jan. It's been such a joy to see their interactions, to watch them support each other and protect their nest from dangers, especially Ravens.

From what I have read they have been using this nest for around 8 years. Over that time Jackie has laid 14 eggs but only 2 or 3 have grown to become adults. There are three eggs this year and apparently "pip watch" begins tomorrow. Keeping everything crossed.
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I was fishing yesterday and saw a Bald Eagle take out a duck on the river, great stuff
 
citizen_maine said:
Some are allowed in your garden, and the ones that aren't are wild about it
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i preferred this thread
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Annoying birds

The bloke next doors new bird is getting on my tits . Shouting at the kids and playing stupid music all day . Should I just ignore her,fill her in or smash her back doors in ( as annoying she is, I would ) .
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I was walking the other day when I see a Bald eagle with a pretty big fish, getting mobbed by crows. 3 crows mobbed the eagle into dropping the fish, then the eagle gets pissed off and starts going at them, but the crow with the fish scarpers and puts it on top of a lampost near where I am stood. So the eagle is over the river when it spots this and it bonbs it over to the lampost, picks up the fish and flies away. It was pretty incredible to watch and funny how it spotted the crow hiding its fish whilst it was being mobbed
 
We had competing male blackbirds singing in a tree last week. This week, one is dead.
 
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