Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Jun 17th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been feeding the birds this morning.
I came inside and was looking out the window when I saw a chaffinch and a sparrow perched near each other on the fence.
All of a sudden the chaffinch ‘attacked’ the sparrow. It fluttered it’s wings and ‘ran ‘ along the top of the hedge at the sparrow.
The sparrow flew away [...]
Posted in General on Jun 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Prayer for the Burial of a Bird
This sparrow died today, O Lord,
Your feathered creature small.
We lay him in the friendly earth
And ask Your blessing on us all.
I’ve found a dead sparrow on the lawn today. So tiny and frail. Thought it would be nice to pop this prayer in. I don’t know who wrote it [...]
Posted in Fact Sheets for Individual Bird Species on Jun 5th, 2008 No Comments »
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A variety of ‘cheep’ and chirp’.
One of the reasons they sing is to keep in contact within the flock they are in.
FEEDING House Sparrows are seed eaters. This means they have beaks that let them crack open the husk and get the seed from inside. Many birds can’t do this.
House sparrows eat a variety of [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Apr 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Bird tables and bird feeders attract birds of all sorts and sizes.
I put out a lot of bird food for the garden birds. I don’t want to see it wasted.
Especially at this time of year when birds are busy breeding I want the bird food to be used by garden birds.
I put out sunflower hearts because [...]
Posted in General on Mar 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Birds are so alive with bird song and movement. I read this poem about the death of a bird and though I’d share it with you.
Prayer for the Burial of a Bird
This sparrow died today, O Lord,
Your feathered creature small.
We lay him in the friendly earth
And ask Your blessing on us all.
It made me remember clearly [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Sunflower hearts are eaten by a lot of birds including
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Chaffinch
Coal Tit
Dunnock
Goldfinch
Great Tit
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Robin
Starling
Woodpecker
Sunflower hearts are not eated by the
Song thrush
Collared dove
Sunflower hearts are a good alternative to peanuts.
I don’t want to feed starlings because they arrive in such a big swarm and completely take over everything. This is what happened in August last year
Yet, [...]