Posted in Bird Food on Jan 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Peanuts and birds go together. A lot of birds love peanuts. I put out peanuts every day along with other bird food.
Peanuts are rich in oil and protein and so are a good energy rich bird food to give to birds
Peanuts can be fed to birds in two ways -
Whole Peanuts
Crushed peanuts
In winter I put out both [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Jan 14th, 2008 No Comments »
For the past two or three days when I have taken bird food out to the bird feeders to feed the birds I have come across a thrush on the ground underneath one of the bird tables. There haven’t been any other birds about. The thrush has been the early bird.
I’ve kept walking towards the thrush and it [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Jan 12th, 2008 No Comments »
The starlings have returned to my garden. They have taken over the bird tables and the ground feeders. Where these starlings come from I just don’t know but I wish these birds would stay away.
Starlings are like thugs. They take over the garden feeders. They don’t have any nerves and push blue tits, chaffinches and wrens out [...]
Posted in General on Dec 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I find myself calling birds by their nicknames. Usually friends know which bird I’m talking about. I wonder if you would.
As I put food out for the birds this morning I found myself wondering if it’s only in Yorkshire that birds have nicknames or if bird nicknames are used worldwide.
Maybe bird nicknames are used in countries as [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Some birds happily swing from branches of trees or hanging feeders to get their daily food supply.
Other birds including Dunnocks, Song Thrushes and Blackbirds look for food on the ground.
If they do fly to a bird table it’s usually one without a roof.
Chaffinches and sparrows eat from bird tables or the ground with equal ease.
I have had a [...]
Posted in Diary on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Hurrah!!! The starlings have disappeared as quickly and mysteriously as they appeared.
I have been keeping an eye on the bird tables and bird feeders all day. Not one starling has appeared.
The sparrows, chaffinches, robins, blackbirds, thrushes and other birds have the bird tables and bird feeders to themselves.
No squawking and scurrying of a flock [...]
