Posted in General on Apr 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
There is a flurry of activity around our hedgerows and in the garden.
Birds are busy building nests and finding nesting materials.
It’s strange how each type of birds builds a different type of nest. Here’s three different birds that build different type nests.
THE WREN
The wren is the smallest common bird. It is only 3 [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Mar 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
As you can see from the photo below black sunflower seed and nyjer seed are very similar.
But nyjer seed is so much smaller than black sunflower seeds.
I’ve found it hard to feed nyjer seed to birds - if I put it on a birdtable it blows away with the slightest breeze.
I put it in a very small feeder but none [...]
Posted in General on Sep 13th, 2007 No Comments »
I live on a farm and we have been lucky enough to have someone from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds doing a Bird Survey throughout the year. Here is a list of some of the birds he has seen:
