Posted in General on Aug 10th, 2008 No Comments »
I wrote about how my birdtable wire had been cut and I thought it must have been a large bird that did it. A rook or crow.
I couldn’t understand it. Here is the note I wrote about it It has a bad photo of a large bird on the bird table and another photo of the [...]
Posted in Bird Friends Around the World on Aug 8th, 2008 1 Comment »
Hi there
Just by chance I dropped on your site, while looking for confirmation about feeding of a Rook.
I picked a young bird up off our lane, which looked as if a fox had given it a close shave. It had most of its tail feathers ripped out and was soaked after a down pour.
I believe [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Aug 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
I’ve had to put wire and string round one of my birdtables to stop the big birds getting onto the actual table. It works. That is - it worked up to last week.
This isn’t a very good photo but you can see how big the bird is on the birdtable . If you look at [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Jun 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Funny you should mention about crows in the garden with other birds,
We seem to have a resident crow who frequently visits our pond,
I have put bread out for the birds Mr. Crow picks up a piece and puts in the water to soften it, then proceeds to eat it, plus any fish food [...]
Posted in General on Dec 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Bird eating bird?
When I started bird feeding I thought bird life was all sweetness and light. I put bird food out for the sparrows, wrens, blue tits. In fact I put bird food out for many garden birds. They all seem to get on at the bird table and bird feeders. These garden birds intermingle very well. [...]
Posted in Bird Feeders on Nov 21st, 2007 No Comments »
At the end of this note there’s a photo of the meripac ground feeder that I use. It’s really great for keeping moorhens, rooks, crows, partridges, jackdaws and farm hens away from my bird seed mix because they can’t get through the wire mesh. When those birds are all in the same area at the same [...]
