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 Jul 24th, 2008 No Comments »
I know birds roost in a big hedge in our garden. First thing in a morning I can see them flitting in and out of the hedge. It’s hard to take a photo of them, but I’ve managed to get two photos of sparrows in the hedge-
The birds merge into the hedge [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Jun 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Bird food - the feeder is now full of millet. I now have a garden full of frantic sparrows trying to sort out their ‘pecking order’ to get the millet from the feeder.
Millet is good bird food because it has a good food to energy ratio. That means when it is eaten it does not [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on May 21st, 2008 No Comments »
This morning I mistook a starling for a blackbird.
The bird was high in a hedge and the yellow beak and black feathers seemed to point to it being a blackbird.
It was singing a strange song for a blackbird though, so I took a longer look and I saw the flecks of white on it’s plumage and [...]
Posted in General on Mar 4th, 2008 2 Comments »
Here’s a photograph of sparrows enjoying the day.
A minute or two before I took this photo they were flitting about feeding at my feeders.
Within the space of a minute I counted twenty birds at two of my feeders. Some were at the feeders some were waiting. I had to count quickly because they were flitting [...]
Posted in General on Jan 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
One of my birding pals has just told me of two families who have stopped putting bird food out for birds because it was distressing to see sparrowhawks attacking and killing sparrows every time bird food was put out in the garden.
The two families live in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England but they have nice gardens. They don’t [...]
