Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Jul 14th, 2008 No Comments »
This morning I have seen a lovely red breasted robin on my garden fence looking down at the ground feeder.
Then as I was throwing some scraps onto the lawn I came upon a thrush hopping on the grass. The thrush didn’t see me and I came quite close to it - I think this was [...]
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 Bird Feeders on Jan 16th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve heard from another birding enthusiast who is having trouble with large birds eating all the food from the bird table. It’s great to hear from people who are interested in birds and to share our problems and hopefully find a solution.
He, like me, agrees that you get a great view of birds when they [...]
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 [...]