Garden Birds and wild birds thread.

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I've edited the thread title because there's quite a lot of discussion about rare wild birds.

It's been a really interesting thread and I've learned ornithological things I didn't know about, so thanks to all who have contributed : )

Leave the birds alone you busy twitching ****

 

[shemnel]

Relocate the feeder locations and see if that makes any difference.

I put a bird stand at the bottom of the garden and it now attracts species I didn’t see in the garden previously.

not a bad idea, ta

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

BBC is having its annual garden survey done with audience participation towards the end of the month. Their website gives details and identification guides and other bits and pieces for counting.
I always spend a pleasant hour whilst waiting for my Sunday breakfast. And it's one time you can be sure there's no BBC bias not even for little Robin redbreast.

 

[MCFCTrick]

For the second time, have seen a pair of the green parakeets in trees behind our garden. I know they are a common sight around south Manchester, but seem to be spreading further north now. Common in Brookdale Park (Newton Heath) which my old man'r house backs on to.
And now way up here in Rochdale .... we back onto Roch Valley. Also seen around nearby Marland Golf Course and Springfield Park too. If nesting, likely to be more in the spring.

Have also recently spotted Bull Finches on our feeding station. Again new to me.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

Leave the birds alone you busy twitching ****

STFU ya Lesser Spotted Kettle Pisser; )

 

[Saddleworth2]

Regularly on our feeders:
Bullfinch
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Blue tit
Coal tit
Great tit
Long tail tit
robin
blackbird
Wood Pigeon
Dunnock
Siskin
Robin
Magpie
jackdaw

Occasionally
Blackcap
Collared doves
Nuthatch
Sparrow Hawk
Mistle thrush
Waxwing

 

[Kippaxpete]

BBC is having its annual garden survey done with audience participation towards the end of the month. Their website gives details and identification guides and other bits and pieces for counting.
I always spend a pleasant hour whilst waiting for my Sunday breakfast. And it's one time you can be sure there's no BBC bias not even for little Robin redbreast.

I'm hoping to catch sight of some bluebirds and tits (if you understand my meaning). F'nah, f'nah.

 

[CALCIO POTATO]

We had a spurt of Jays for a while and now they have disappeared - they went when i gave them muffins instead of barm cakes

 

[J.G.Blue.]

We had a spurt of Jays for a while and now they have disappeared - they went when i gave them muffins instead of barm cakes

Is that the correct terminology for a group of jays, a spurt?

 

[Barcon]

Is that the correct terminology for a group of jays, a spurt?

Jays is a common term for spunk in some areas.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Jays is a common term for spunk in some areas.

So you could say a squirt of jays fluid?

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

There's ba f

I'm hoping to catch sight of some bluebirds and tits (if you understand my meaning). F'nah, f'nah.

They come to me as if l was St Francis of Assisi as l charm them into my arms.
If you understand my meaning.;)

 

[Bonzo Nododo]

Jays is a common term for spunk in some areas.

Wash your ears out. It's jizz not jays you deaf bugger.

 

[idahoblues]

 

[shemnel]

at 1 metre, that is possibly the shortest 'Field to Table' you're going to see

 

[andyhinch]

You’ll get a few good meals out of that mate.

 

[snorky]

You’ll get a few good meals out of that mate.

And a shag

 

[yerwot?]

The RSPB get many reports from the public about ""exotic" bird sightings that more often than not turn out to be a jay. Not surprising given it's plumage, and the funerial black of our other corvids. First time i saw a tree-creeper i thought it was rare, never having seen one before, drab feathers but unmistakable behaviour, but not uncommon. Buzzards have become main-sream nowadays, same with herons. A goldcrest just outside the window, tiny yet can lay 7 or 8 eggs again not rare just reclusive, and like wrens, not attacted to bird-feeders, prefering insects to seeds.

 

[dronefromsector7G]

Nice ball gag, where’s the strap?

 

[bornblueegg]

Had all sorts in the 6 acres here in darkest Wales, even get pheasant