Posted in Birdy Ramblings on my daily dawdle on Oct 29th, 2008 4 Comments »
Freezing weather in October will be bad for birdlife. As well as the cold weather the days are becoming shorter giving our feathered friends less time to find food - so it’s specially a good idea to put bird food out. Night frosts are not the usual thing in October! We have [...]
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 Sep 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
This may seem a bit of a boring video but these bird feeders are a gathering place for sparrows, blue tits, great tits - I just have to be lucky enough to get a photo of them
Posted in Bird Friends Around the World on Aug 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
I always think I’m really lucky when I get a note or a comment from someone about birds, bird tables or bird care.
I have received this email from R about birds and FOXES.
Hi Trisha
Thought you might be interested in a couple of bird incident that have happened in my back garden recently.
We live in [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Jul 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
I remember talking to someone last year who had seen two blackbirds trying to stop two magpies stealing their eggs.
The blackbirds were unsucessful and the blackbird’s eggs were raided by the two magpies.
It’s the law of the jungle in the English countryside
Magpies have been raiding birds nests for years. It is a well known [...]
Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Jun 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Every day I put out some cut and peeled apple for the birds in my garden. I put some on the bird table, some on the meshed ground feeder and a few slices I throw under a bush. These bits of apple always get eaten.
The apple attracts a lot of birds and I’ve just seen a blackbird [...]
