Garden Birds and wild birds thread.

[kaz7]

Brilliant. If I come down to Manchester and you notice a tent in your garden ,don't panic, it will just be me enjoying seeing the Badgers with a big bag of food. Must be brilliant for you and them to have you. Well done Mrs in looking out for them. :)

I won't be there ,you will have to come down to the south coast lol

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

I've seen snow here in every month of the year

Not in Europe, any more. We go through whole winters without snow, now. I remember I was disappointed not to see snow in Scotland, in the dead of winter, too.

 

[Magicpole]

I won't be there ,you will have to come down to the south coast lol

My brother lived there, I know the place. Deep fry a Mars Bar and I will find your place before it's done.

 

[Magicpole]

You'll have a job pitching a tent in her garden in Manchester MP.

You live closer to Manchester than she does you unobservant dick; )

I will give you that one. :)

 

[purplenose]

Not exactly in the garden but a mere 5 minute walk from the town centre by the river I encountered a bloody big Cormorant, i thought they were sea birds.

You dare not walk down there with anything edible either because you will get your head kicked in by a swan unless you are prepared to part with it willingly.

 

[mcfc1632]

Not exactly in the garden but a mere 5 minute walk from the town centre by the river I encountered a bloody big Cormorant, i thought they were sea birds.

You dare not walk down there with anything edible either because you will get your head kicked in by a swan unless you are prepared to part with it willingly.

It is weird - we are about as inland as you can be on the island that is GB - but we get a Cormorant every day and also some terns and occasionally a couple of seagulls - I guess that sea birds get used to going where feeding is available.

For us the terns are fine - they put so much effort into catching a fish and then it is only a small one and off they go - but we regard the Cormorant as we do Magpies - they seem to eat non-stop.

My daughter is like some vigilante - whenever we see the Cormorant coming in she runs down the garden making some strange strangled squawking noise - I guess she thinks that she is imitating some bird of prey

 

[Kakhaber The Great]

Not exactly in the garden but a mere 5 minute walk from the town centre by the river I encountered a bloody big Cormorant, i thought they were sea birds.

You dare not walk down there with anything edible either because you will get your head kicked in by a swan unless you are prepared to part with it willingly.

A few years ago when I lived in Stretford, I got down onto the canal off Chester Road bridge and there was a cormorant on the towpath. It was fairly approachable but eventually it got into the water and put some distance between us. I got some decent photos at least. Couldn't get over it, a cormorant in Stretford...

 

[purplenose]

A few years ago when I lived in Stretford, I got down onto the canal off Chester Road bridge and there was a cormorant on the towpath. It was fairly approachable but eventually it got into the water and put some distance between us. I got some decent photos at least. Couldn't get over it, a cormorant in Stretford...

Normally all you get in Stretford are 1000s of examples of the Common Red Twat.

 

[Saddleworth2]

A few years ago when I lived in Stretford, I got down onto the canal off Chester Road bridge and there was a cormorant on the towpath. It was fairly approachable but eventually it got into the water and put some distance between us. I got some decent photos at least. Couldn't get over it, a cormorant in Stretford...

Pity you didn't have a shotgun with you. Inland cormorants are a bloody menace.

 

[Kakhaber The Great]

Normally all you get in Stretford are 1000s of examples of the Common Red Twat.

A very good point. And well made too.