Bird Table News

Hurrah!  The snow seems to be melting. 

Instead of there being another covering of snow, the snow isslowly melting and small patches of green grass are showing on the lawn. 

The water I put out for the wild birds hasn’t frozen overnight

It isn’t freezing cold any more

The snow is melting off the roof of my car and the snowbound lane isn’t snowbound any more.

This milder weather will be great for all the wild birds and animals and lets hope will make life easier for everyone and everything.

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Happy New Year everyone

We don’t have much time left in 2009.  Let’s hope 2010 is a good year. 

Should I make a New Years resolution?  No.  I will only break it in January 2010.

I wish you all Health and Happiness in 2010

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Click on the link below.  You will fly through the air with a bird and see just how amazing it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lswBDZuL-8w&hl=en

What a great Video that is.

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I have just found out that there has been a  war on Earth that has been going on for 300 million years.  Amazing

If you have time to watch the videos below I think you will find them really interesting. 

Don’t  be put off by the title  or by the front of the video – just take a look and find out what this 300 million year war is all about

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-royal-institution-christmas-lectures

There are five.  If you don’t have time to watch them all I would suggest you watch the last one.

Let me know what you think?

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I hope everyone had a Happy Christmas. 

I had a really nice time, inbetween putting bird food and fresh water  out 

I’m very popular with many, many sparrows, starling, bluetits and other tits, robins, rooks, blackbirds, thrushes.  A robin has been spending ages on the bird table pecking away.  It’s a wonder nothing has chased it away.

Night is drawing in. I have just brought all the bird feeders in.  At least they will be dry and ready for the morning

The other day I saw quite a few sparrows queing up and trying to get into a nest box to roost.  I just could not see them all getting in.  I hope they did – it really is freezing here.

Cherio for now

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I thought this was really interesting -

Mountain of left over soil from roadworks in London  is creating a new bird island at sea

Click this link below to read all about it

http://ow.ly/Q8Em

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Don’t forget to feed the birds on Christmas Day.
Christmas Day is a special day for us but for our feathered friends it’s just another day when they have to search for food or else they will starve.

I get such a lot of birds to my feeders.  On Christmas Day,I’ll have  time to feed them as well as having time to give and receive presents.

It’s good to get outside on a morning into the fresh air.

My old man says that it takes me as long to feed the birds and sort the bird seed and bird feeders out as it does for him to feed his herd of cows. He could be right!

I could only use one feeder. But which one?

• The covered meshed feeder is good because it keeps the larger birds out and lets thrushes, blackbirds, sparrows, blue tits and other smaller birds get at the food. I can’t stop using that bird feeder. 
• The two bird tables are used by a variety of garden birds (and also by rooks, crows, pigeons and jackdaws). I can’t stop using those.
• The fat ball feeder is popular and the sparrows cling on to get at the fat balls. The blue tits are a lot more agile. We’ve also had a woodpecker clinging on to get at the fat balls. I can’t stop using that feeder. 
• The peanut feeder is popular and peanuts are a good nutrition. I can’t stop using that feeder. 
• The millet feeder is going down a storm. The sparrows never leave it alone. They clambour over each other to get at the feed. So I can’t stop using that feeder. 
• The mixed seed feeder needs filling up every day and the birds seem to be waiting in the branches. As soon as I fill this bird feeder up they descend onto it. So I can’t stop using that feeder.

Better just carry on as before.
You don’t need as many feeders as I have to feed the birds.

As we enjoy Christmas Day lets turn out thoughts to nature and spend a few minutes putting bird food out.  It’s good to give as well as receive!

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I would like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas

Where has 2009 gone?

It only seems five minutes since I went to the 2008 Carol Service and watched the Nativity.  Now the 2009 Service is over.

Village children, a Yorkshire  Church full of people and lit only by Christmas Tree lights for part of the service.

The voices of children singing Away in a Manger. Later,   then later in the Service all the congretation singing filled the Church with sound.   The Church Organ music reverberated round the Church as it has done for many years.

Churches were made to be filled with sound and singing – it brings them to life

I like being able to sing a Christmas songs  from memory and not have to look at the words on the Carol Sheet.  I think the words mean more.   There is something nice about singing with a lot of other people as well.

Watching the children in Church perform the Nativity made me realise once again that Christmas is really a religious festival.  How did it get so commercialised?

After the Carol Service in the Church tea and biscuits were served so everyone stopped to chat. Children ran around in Nativity Costume and their laughter filled the Church.  Neighbours, community and Church – all together for one hour.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL

I WONDER IF IT IS TOO MUCH TO WISH FOR PEACE ON EARTH AS WELL

TRISHA

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The milkman delivers milk to the door.  This is an everyday occurance for some people.

Blue Tits have learnt how to break the milk bottle top and get to the milk.

In the 1950′s nearly the whole population of blue tits had learnt how to get to the rich creamy milk that lay beneath the milk bottle tops!

They passed this knowledge onto their young.

Strangely if a robin learns how to do this they never seem to pass the knowledg on.

This access for blue tits gave them a greater means of survival.

Over the years the amount of milk the milkman delivers has dropped as people get milk from supermarkets.  (What would Richard Hanny in the story ‘The 39 Steps’ have made of that)

Now it seems the milkman may soon be a thing of the past in our area.  The number of customers they deliver to is dwindling as people buy more from supermarkets. 

The cost of petrol is going up so the cost of delivery is going up.  the milkman has to buy the milk at a higher price than the supermarkets do.  Everything is against the milkman.

It is a shame because bottled milk is recycle friendly.

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