Bird Table News

This little bird, or one very much like it pays a visit to my bird table and ground feeder every day.

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Here is a close up video of a Thrush on my birdtable in my Yorkshire Garden.

Luckily you didn’t have to sit through the 17 minutes of the video.  I watched 15 minutes of empty bird table and was rewarded with two minutes of birds actually on the bird table!

The white busbi video that I left perched (and recording) on my birdtable frightened most of the birds away.  I was watching for part of the time from my kitchen window and birds were flying round, nearly landing and then flying up and away. 

Luckily one or two birds hopped onto the bird table – this thrush was one of them!

If I keep a white object on the bird table all the time the garde birds  won’t take  any notice when the small busbi video is recording there.

Is it a Mistle Thrush?

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I’m still getting a lot of blackbirds and thrushes.  It’s nice they seem to  feel at home here.

Blackbirds have been coming to my feeders for years.  I wonder if  each generation of blackbirds brings its fledglings to the bird tables?

Haven’t seen any white feathered blackbirds for a while.

I was stood really close to this blackbird – the video maybe doesn’t show this.  I didn’t realise until it was uploaded that it is a bit blurred – apologies. 

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This video was taken one windy November day – this robin spent ages on the bird table. It seemed so fragile against the weather

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I went birdwatching and found sheep instead!

How many sheep?  At the end of this short video there are more than two sheep.

Guess which area of the field the sheep will appear  from?

It’s just a bit of fun but give it a try.

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Just look at the video below. 

You will see just how large a rook is and you will realise just how much bird food it can eat from a bird table. A  robin, chaffinch or sparrow would only come an inch or two  up the rooks leg

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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  - 

• Plant a  Hawthorn hedge TO READ WHY HAWTHORN HEDGES GIVE PROTECTION CLICK HERE

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• Put up nest boxes  – Make sure the nest box does not have any perches.  The exterior of a nest box is a dangerous place for birds.  Perches on nest boxes encourage birds to rest outside the nest box and so make it easier for them to be seen by predators. 

  Novelty bird boxes may look nice, but the tried and tested bird boxes give a reliable nesting home to many birds.

Magpies are scavengers.

Here is a video of a magpie that came to my lawn

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Habitat is important for wildlife.  There are so many birds use this copse. Last night there was  one bird singing sweetly among the crows.

I like to think it was singing - 

‘BREAK NOT A BRANCH, NOR HARM A TREE ‘COS THIS LITTLE COPSE IS HOME TO ME. 

The scent and sound was soothing.

Apologies that there is only a fleeting view of this sweet singing bird – at about 38 seconds in the top right of the video.

Thanks for watching this.

As I said habitats for birds are important. They may seem boring to us,but they are life saving for birds and so much other wildlife.

I think it is a chaffinch?  Can someone confirm it is a chaffinch singing?

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This is why we should always peel and cut up apples when we are putting them out for the birds!

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