Posted in General on Sep 8th, 2008 2 Comments »
This weekend I’ve seen a lot of pigeons. Have seen them in town and city centres and it amazes me how pigeons in towns and cities don’t show any fear. They flit near out feet and are at home in areas crowded with us humans. We have accepted the pigeons and the pigeons have accepted us.
I also saw a grey squirrel. [...]
Posted in Bird Friends Around the World on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
Cheeky blackbirds in a garden They have certainly made themselves at home. I really like this -
I have had blackbirds in same place in garden for 3 years now
They get used to a feeding time and peck at window if i,m late,
my residents favourite is chopped apple they also enjoy cooled boiled chopped pasta.
Thanks for [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on May 21st, 2008 10 Comments »
Every day I see crows and blackbirds together in my garden. There are also rooks. There are more rooks than crows.
The crows don’t seem to take any notice of the blackbirds. Neither do the rooks.
The blackbirds don’t seem frightened of the crows.
The blackbirds, rooks and crows land together and if something frightens them, they fly off [...]
Posted in General on Apr 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
I’ve just seen a photograph of a blackbird clinging to a feeder trying to eat the peanuts inside.
I’ve never seen that before.
Blackbirds are supposed to be ground feeding birds although I do get them on my bird table a lot.
Has anyone else heard or seen blackbirds clinging onto peanut feeders?
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Mar 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
Blackbirds in my garden eat a lot of the bird food I put out.
I’ve just mentioned in another diary entry that the blackbirds stay at the ground feeder and hop around at their leisure.
I also like taking photographs. I have my first digital camera which was a mystery to me at first. After going on two courses [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Sunflower hearts are eaten by a lot of birds including
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Chaffinch
Coal Tit
Dunnock
Goldfinch
Great Tit
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Robin
Starling
Woodpecker
Sunflower hearts are not eated by the
Song thrush
Collared dove
Sunflower hearts are a good alternative to peanuts.
I don’t want to feed starlings because they arrive in such a big swarm and completely take over everything. This is what happened in August last year
Yet, [...]