Posted in Bird Feeders on Nov 1st, 2008 2 Comments »
Can anyone help with this question -
I have, at any time, between 2 and 5 hanging bird feeders with a selection of foods in them and they are used constantly, and I have a ground feeding table with a wire guard which is popular with the local robin. But in 2 years I’ve never found [...]
Posted in General on Oct 30th, 2008 1 Comment »
At the weekend I went on a Feed the Birds Day Walk at Bempton Cliffs.
It was a guided walk and we saw seabirds and garden birds. I saw a large black bird perched on the sheet cliff face. The guide told me it was a Jackdaw! It seems they are cliff nesting birds. Fancy. Jackdaws [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Oct 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
I was trying to take a short video of a group of sparrows squabbling about the bird feeder when, all of a sudden they flew away as though they were being choreographed in some dance. Up and away they all went.
One second later a sparrowhawk flew onto the garden fence! It looked around and flew [...]
Posted in General on Oct 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Hi, I had a comment from a lady who wondered if a sparrowhawk had come to her garden because there were some birds there that were ill and so were easy to prey on.
I replied -
Hi, What an interesting view. There could be something in that. Maybe the sparrowhawk saw weak and ill victims that [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Oct 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday I caught a glimpse of a woodpecker actually on the bird table
Today I was driving slowly on a one track country lane and a sparrowhawk glided past at window screen height. I was mesmerised and watched it’s every move, never taking my eyes off it. It was amazing. (I had stopped the car).
It landed [...]
Posted in General on Sep 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Yesterday I glanced out of my kitchen window and sitting on a fence next to the old bird table was a sparrowhawk. The sparrowhawk looked magnificent. I stood transfixed as it just relaxed on the fence. It seemed to look straighe at me.
For a moment I forgot this was the bird that [...]
