I’ve been birdwatching from my kitchen window and the air has been full of a variety of birds.
The way the birds flit and fly around it’s a wonder they never collide with each other.
Some of the birds I’ve seen are -
I suppose they are trying to get enough food to see them through the night.
I put a fatball on the grass today. I don’t know why. I just thought I would.
This fatball has been popular today and pecked at by a lot of birds.
A blackbird was pecking at it and later on some blue tits.
Sparrows have been there as well.
About half an hour ago there was a sparrow pecking it and a large Thrush came pecking at it as well. The small sparrow wasn’t having any of it and tried to peck the thrush.
The sparrow wasn’t scared of the big Thrush at all. Seeing the two birds on the ground together made me realise how small the sparrow is in relation to the Thrush, yet the sparrow actually frightened the Thrush away.
The sparrow stood guard over the fat ball. It was looking up at the thrush. It made me laugh. The thrush backed off a little, then turned and disappeared into the hedgebottom. The sparrow kept on pecking at the fatball.
How do Thrushes survive when they are so timid? Hopefully there is a lot of food in the countryside.
I’ll soon have to go and collect what is left of the fatball before it gets dark. Don’t want to attract any vermin.
I have just seen a squirrel jump off my bird feeder onto the ground.
It hopped along the scrub area. A partridge was ‘walking’ towards it.
They were very close to each other, but didn’t take any notice of each other. I suppose they live in the same scrub and so come across each other often.
I don’t know.
Pheasant in Yorkshire
grey squirrel in yorkshire
