Garden Birds and wild birds thread.

I made the rookie mistake of leaving my boots out as they were smelling , not my feet, the garden , new boots required , pesky badgers

Dad fox was in charge of the cubs again last night , he is so useless but mum cant do it all, she feeds the family
 
kaz7 said:
I made the rookie mistake of leaving my boots out as they were smelling , not my feet, the garden , new boots required , pesky badgers

Dad fox was in charge of the cubs again last night , he is so useless but mum cant do it all, she feeds the family
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Please sir, the badgers ate my homework.
 



Me feeding swans at Kersal Wetlands...I don't know what's happened to the other two cygnets.
Dad swan thinks he's hard!
 
I have some beatiful butterflies in the garden, from white to what looks like a red admiral with blue tips to the wings , they are having a ball in my nature reserve

I had a tree surgeon here last week who is coming to do some work next week , he said he was delighted what i do with my garden, he says it is a rarity in my town, everyone wants picture book gardens and no real nature to speak off
 
this is a scrub blackbird, (not my pic), we started to get these in the garden about a year ago. I started to throw them bits of bread which they seemed to really like. After a few months they started to come to the door and sing, so I fed them. A few months later they would come in the house, a bit timid, and sing, so they got fed, now they will come in and sit on the table right in front of us and sing their beautiful song. They do it at least2 times a day and are quite used to us now. They even come to call if I whistle. L know they are not the most beautiful of birds but we have become quite fond of them, these are normally very timid and shy away from humans, we have not managed to get any other birds to come anywhere near us as of yet. however, if we lie in in the morning they come to the bedroom window and sing really loud, but its a nice way to wake up.
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kaz7 said:
I have some beatiful butterflies in the garden, from white to what looks like a red admiral with blue tips to the wings , they are having a ball in my nature reserve

I had a tree surgeon here last week who is coming to do some work next week , he said he was delighted what i do with my garden, he says it is a rarity in my town, everyone wants picture book gardens and no real nature to speak off
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Don’t want to dampen your spirits but, having a ball is usually rape in the butterfly world.
 
My garden is full of young birds now. My wild area in the corner seems to have 4 female blackbirds that like being in there !.
Plus they seem to love the water bowl and are in the water for ages splashing around.

Havent seen the hedgehogs for around a month now. Use to get at least 2 a night but nothing now :(
 
Cant remember the name of this bird but it flew in and took a house sparrow of my bird table just now ( I think )!. My bird table hangs about 18inches from my window made me jump! ! .
Not sure if it got a sparrow as it was so quick. It went into a tree and I couldn't see it, until it flew away.
My garden is very quiet and still at the moment

I think it's a sparrow hawk
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Had a couple of these little ‘Wilson Warblers’ in my hops recently. Two minutes after I took this pic my piece of shit cat plucked it out of the air with a twizzling leap from seemingly a passed out pose. I almost killed the fat bastard
 
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Had a couple of these little ‘Wilson Warblers’ in my hops recently. Two minutes after I took this pic my piece of shit cat plucked it out of the air with a twizzling leap from seemingly a passed out pose. I almost killed the fat bastard
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Eventually spotted one.
Thought I was playing an avian version of "Where's Wally"
 
kaz7 said:
There is a beautiful jay in the garden with a flash of blue in its feathers , i will be mega pissed off if merlin gets that one
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Beautiful, extremely clever bird.
I saw one this morning,feeding under a tree...until a passing Carrion Crow swooped down at speed to land on a branch in the said tree...in a flash,as soon as the CC had come into view,the Jay was off,at speed,a few yards away..to continue feeding...The Jay knew who was boss.
 
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