Posted in General on Aug 19th, 2008 3 Comments »
I have not seen a blue tit in or near my garden for ages.
I hope it’s because there is enough food for them in the countryside.
I hope they are having a good nesting season.
Last year was a really bad breeding year for Blue Tits.
Blue Tit breeding in 2007 - a bad year
Lets hope that in [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Feb 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Feeding Birds and keeping the bird tables and bird feeders filled up with bird food is going well at the moment.
I don’t have any of the problems I have had when magpies, rooks, pigeons and starlings ate all the bird food, not to mention the moorhens and the pheasants that visited and ate me out of house and [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Jan 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
I use my meshed ground feeder a lot and I’ve placed it outside my kitchen window so I can easily watch the birds feeding through the window.
I’ve started to put a lot of different food in the feeder. This morning I thought that maybe I maybe I was putting out too much bird food on [...]
Posted in General on Dec 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Watching a blackbird and a blue tit close to each other in the garden it struck me how different they are in their ways.
A blackbird spends a lot of time on the ground and is not very agile in flight. You would never catch a blackbird hanging like an acrobat from a bird feeder.
Blue Tits [...]
Posted in Bird Feeders on Nov 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Many birds are used to eating fruit and berries that grow at the ends of branches and twigs. So it’s easy to attract birds to the garden by putting out hanging bird feeders.
Birds you are most likely to see on a hanging bird feeder are:
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Nov 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve been worried about the blue tits that usually brighten up my bird feeders. There haven’t been any feeding in my garden recently.
A bird survey done this summer showed young blue tit numbers down 48% this summer.
Now a group of blue tits have re-appeared at my bird feeders. It makes bird feeding worthwhile seeing 4 or 5 [...]