Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Jul 14th, 2008 No Comments »
This morning I have seen a lovely red breasted robin on my garden fence looking down at the ground feeder.
Then as I was throwing some scraps onto the lawn I came upon a thrush hopping on the grass. The thrush didn’t see me and I came quite close to it - I think this was [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Jun 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Every day I put out some cut and peeled apple for the birds in my garden. I put some on the bird table, some on the meshed ground feeder and a few slices I throw under a bush. These bits of apple always get eaten.
The apple attracts a lot of birds and I’ve just seen a blackbird [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on May 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
The Robin - a short video of a robin on my birdtable. I took this video a while ago. It looks blurred, but when you click PLAY the actual robin is very clear.
The robin has the birdtable full of bird food all to itself
Doesn’t it red breast plumage look lovely.
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden, General on May 4th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
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 Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Mar 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
Bird photographs - I enjoyed myself this morning trying to get photographs of birds.
I only managed to get two good ones. Here they are -
Blackbird having a rest after eating its breakfast
Robin at home near the garden