Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Pigeons. I don’t like em! Pigeons get everywhere.
I’d forgotten about this pigeon getting into the meshed ground bird feeder. It happened on Monday.
I don’t know how long it had been there before I saw it, but a lot of the bird food had gone.
How had the pigeon got in? I leave the meshed door open a [...]
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 Bird Feeders on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve heard from another birding enthusiast who is having trouble with large birds eating all the food from the bird table. It’s great to hear from people who are interested in birds and to share our problems and hopefully find a solution.
He, like me, agrees that you get a great view of birds when they [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Jan 11th, 2008 No Comments »
I’m so busy feeding the birds I don’t have time to write about my garden birds!
I want to write something every day about birds, bird feeding and bird life. I want this tobe a daily a diary for me to look back on, but time gets in the way. So I’m going to quickly write about what [...]
Posted in Bird Feeders on Oct 19th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m fed up of feeding things I don’t want to feed.
We’ve had a swarm of crows and rooks and fat pigeons maurauding overhead.
I thought I’d won the battle. This is partly because of the meshed ground feeder and because of one new bird feeder. I was wrong.
Hurrah! It’s going -
And it needn’t come back.
We have seen [...]
Posted in Diary on Sep 15th, 2007 No Comments »
There’s an autumnal feel to the air today. The leaves are falling to the ground. Seven more days and Autumn will truly be here.
6.30 am. I can hear birdsong without opening my door or windows. Looking through my kitchen window into the garden there’s a small flock of sparrows about this morning. Makes a change from [...]