Chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs )
A male chaffinch
FEEDING
Chaffinches eat a variety of seeds and scraps. They eat Peanuts granules and sunflower hearts.
They also eat
fruits
berries
insects
spiders
grain
Winter and Autumn: Chaffinch is a seed eater and in the winter and autumn feeds in flocks on farmland
Nesting Season In the nesting season they they forage in trees and bushes, hunting for spiders, [...]
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I’ve been feeding the birds this morning.
I came inside and was looking out the window when I saw a chaffinch and a sparrow perched near each other on the fence.
All of a sudden the chaffinch ‘attacked’ the sparrow. It fluttered it’s wings and ‘ran ‘ along the top of the hedge at the sparrow.
The sparrow flew away [...]
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Birds in my garden.
Thought you may be interested in photos of some of the birds that I have seen within the last half hour.
Some of the photo quality may not be brilliant, but it shows the variety of birds in the garden
I will let the bird photos do the talking
First a chaffinch -
Starling - these [...]
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Here is a short video of a greenfinch on my old bird table. I took the video last year. It looks a bit blurred at first but when you click to watch it the video itself is clear.
I really did have this bird table for years. Now I’ve got a new one but I won’t be able [...]
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Posted in General on Apr 1st, 2008 No Comments »
Bird Feeding can be annoying sometimes. Feeding birds can be fun sometimes!
I’ve had a reply from the lady who hadn’t had any birds at her bird table -
Hi Birdy Trish, Thank you for your prompt reply.
Very excited this morning as I have had three birds visit the table, one had a beautiful orange breast. We do [...]
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Posted in Bird Food on Feb 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Peanut Granules are brilliant bird food they are power packed with proteins and oil which makes them a nourising nibble for our garden birds.
Peanut granules are one of the types of bird food that I put out every day and the birds go mad for them.
Using peanut granules as bird food gives birds energy for [...]
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