Bird Table News

Countryside and wildlife mingle together.
I’m having a change from bird talk to put some photographs of changing corn.
These photos were taken over a week.

test
tes
test
The seasons change. Harvest will soon be here. The rhythm of the seasons continues.
Last year I remember seeing a sparrow feeding it’s fledgling young.
That young fledgling sparrow that I saw [...]

Read Full Post »

I caught a glimpse of this bird on my garden fence and managed to quickly take a few photographs of it.
Has it got a beakfull of food?
Has it damaged it’s beak?
Has it got some food attached to its beak?
I can’t make it out. Help me!

Here is a clearer photograph

I myself think it has a [...]

Read Full Post »

I want to feed birds not squirrels. 
At one point I had a problem with a grey squirrel managing to get at all the bird food I put out.  It seemed to take over the bird feeding area.  I can sympathise with this comment I received, but don’t know if I could do it myself.

I [...]

Read Full Post »

Listen to birds singing. Enjoy
A selection of birdsong that I’ve managed to record in or near my garden
It’s really hard to get birdsong without the sound of wind in the trees. Apologies for the sound of the wind in the trees.
dawn-chorus-maymp3
birdsong-but-which-bird-is-singingmp3
yorkshire-birdsongmp3

Read Full Post »

It’s not all sweetness and light in birdworld
I’ve seen photographs of a Heron swooping down onto a duckling - trying to kill and eat it.
The mother duck skimms across the water in a vain, frantic and courageous effort to chase the heron away.
It is no contest. the Heron is a very large predator.  The duck’s head would [...]

Read Full Post »

We haven’t seen as many swallows near the houses and farm sheds this year.
The sky seems empty of swallows.
I don’t understand it and it is worrying.  There are less swallows here this year than there were last year.
this means fewer swallows will make the return journey to Africa at the end of summer 2008 than made [...]

Read Full Post »