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 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Peanuts and birds go together. A lot of birds love peanuts. I put out peanuts every day along with other bird food.
Peanuts are rich in oil and protein and so are a good energy rich bird food to give to birds
Peanuts can be fed to birds in two ways -
Whole Peanuts
Crushed peanuts
In winter I put out both [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Jan 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Sunflower seeds are a really popular bird food for my garden birds which is a good thing as sunflower seeds give INSTANT ENERGY to all garden birds because they have -
A high oil content
A high fat content
INSTANT ENERGY is important when feeding birds in winter as the cold, dark nights and short days mean less time [...]
Posted in General on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I find myself calling birds by their nicknames. Usually friends know which bird I’m talking about. I wonder if you would.
As I put food out for the birds this morning I found myself wondering if it’s only in Yorkshire that birds have nicknames or if bird nicknames are used worldwide.
Maybe bird nicknames are used in countries as [...]
Posted in General on Nov 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Often, for the first hour of two of my morning, the only living things I see and talk to are a variety of birds and one dog.
Often, for the first hour or two of my morning, all I hear is the
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Oct 6th, 2007 No Comments »
I have been sitting at my kitchen window for 10 minutes watching the birds come and go. In those 10 minutes, at my bird feeders and my bird table, I have seen:
Great tits
blue tits
robin (1)
blackbird (1)
chaffinch (1)
Sparrows! About 20 sparrows gathered at the feeders. There were both house and tree sparrows, arguing and flitting from feeder to [...]
