Posted in General on Aug 18th, 2008 3 Comments »
This wet weather has been bad for holiday makers and bad for harvest and it has made for a very depressing time.
This wet weather has been really good for Thrushes. It’s made it easy for them to ‘dig’ into the soft, wet grass with their beaks and get the ‘lovely food’ they find there. Things [...]
Posted in General on Mar 22nd, 2008 3 Comments »
I’ve been chatting to Char who had the blog Psych Matters.
She talks about how birds interact in her garden. Char builds up an image of her garden. In some ways it’s the same thing that happens in my garden.
I get so many different birds in my garden and they all interact with each other. Like [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Mar 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
Blackbirds in my garden eat a lot of the bird food I put out.
I’ve just mentioned in another diary entry that the blackbirds stay at the ground feeder and hop around at their leisure.
I also like taking photographs. I have my first digital camera which was a mystery to me at first. After going on two courses [...]
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 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 [...]
