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It’s really miraculous to think that soon this bird will have the ability to fly miles round the earth. How do they do it when we intelligent humans need so much equipment to do the same thing.
Swallow chick safe in nest
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There was so much rain yesterday morning . It bounced off the tarmac and ran in riverlets down the lane.
It was dull, dismal and raining, but I was happy. Are you wondering why I was happy? No? Well I’ll tell you anyway
I looked out of the window and there on the birdtable, where previously pigeons and rooks had gathered, was a thrush. A thrush was standing and eating on the birdtable.
This is the birdtable that has a new, modern, unique foolproof way of keeping large birds away. (So it had been worth it going outside in the rain to put bird food out on the bird table
Also, great tits, chaffinches and blackbirds and sparrows are still coming to the Modern, Unique and pigeon proof Bird Table. I have seen these garden birds plus a wet and bedraggled blue tit in the space of about ten minutes on the bird table
This modern 21C invention that stops pigeons, rooks and crows from balancing and landing on a bird table
PIGEONS, ROOKS, CROWS CANNOT FLY AND BALANCE TO GET THROUGH THE CANE RODS ONTO THE BIRD TABLE
You can laugh if you want to, but for so long I have had Rooks, Crows, Jackdaws and pigeons taking over the bird food. I have been fed up with it. The garden birds have been sidelined.
I have tried different ways to keep the large birds out .
Some ways like the covered ground feeder have worked for the smaller garden birds – but putting cane round a birdtable lets thrushes and blackbirds in as well as the smaller garden birds
I watched the thrush through the kitchen window and it was there for quite a few minutes just casually eating the bird food on the bird table – in safety and without fear of being pushed out by pigeons, rooks and crows.
If you have problems with larger birds getting all the bird food why not get some canes from any garden centre and give this a try. Then send any photos you take to me.
I’m sure I could put the rods further into the ground and further away from the bird table, but have not been able to yet.
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I remember talking to someone last year who had seen two blackbirds trying stop two magpies stealing the blackbirds’ eggs.
The blackbirds failed. The magpies won. The magpies took the blackbird eggs by raiding the nest
If this happens every year unseen by us then is it any wonder that blackbird numbers are falling.
Magpies have been raiding birds nests for years. It is a well known fact they skim along hedges raiding nests.
Two ways to help keep birds and birds eggs safe -
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Magpies are scavengers.
Here is a video of a magpie that came to my lawn
I find myself calling birds by their nicknames. Usually friends know which bird I’m talking about. I wonder if you would.
As I put food out for the birds this morning I found myself wondering if it’s only in Yorkshire that birds have nicknames or if bird nicknames are used worldwide.
Maybe bird nicknames are used in countries as far apart as Sweden and India.
Here’s a few Yorkshire nicknames
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Dreamfalcon tells us that
In Switzerland :
