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Hello All
It is fairly quiet in my garden at the moment as I have run out of bird food :-S.I will have to stock up again when I have my car.My son is using it every day to get to work.
The squirrels ate all our Hazelnuts again this year.We have never actually been able to have any ourselves :-| :-|
I had a little companion with me all afternoon as I cleared tons of leaves.One of Robins.I think as I was scraping with the rake I must have been disturbing bugs and flies, so it was having a little feast lol

I put the following on the welsh thread, but just in case anyone doesn't read that thread:

I have a friend who lives in the forest of Dean, she had several bird feeders in her garden which were getting destroyed. Now she has a cock pheasant that has taken up residence in her garden and he feeds from the bird feeders but she had watched him feed and he only took seeds one at a time. Her neighbour told her to watch the feeders at night and she saw a tawny owl land on the feeder and wreck it to get at the seed. So now she takes the feeders in at night. :-D

Yes that's probably right Ann.
It was freezing in London last night .
Take care
Von

Apparently squirrels are very hungry this year because there are very few nuts for them. But I think the birds think it is January as it has turned so cold so early.

Ann
I just had a look to see when you started this thread as all the berries in my garden have been eaten and I thought maybe it was an annual thing.
Obviously not as you started this one January.
OH had a big shock when going to fetch another bunch of grapes the other day to discover that the whole lot had gone :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0
It's either the birds or the pesky squirrel. :-S :-S
Take care
Von

SparklingSandie. Jay's also eat nestlings of other birds and small mammals
:-( :-( :-(

Jays are beautiful looking birds, but can devastate your apple tree before you realise they are about ..beware !

I've had it done :-(

Deter them from the tree known to work by hanging old CDs / Dvd's from the branches..they look pretty in the sun ( when we get it ) and Jay's don't like them.

Yes lots of activity particularly from Blue and great tits and a few goldfinches. Plus one Robin who seems to like just sitting in the apple tree. He/she has also been eating out of the seed feeders which I haven't seen before.

Jays are beautiful Rose aren't they?

Well they,ve eaten all my cherries this year, so they,re trying something different. :-D

I've noticed a lot of bird activity in my garden too, particular those pesky blackbirds who are, at this very moment, tucking into the fruit on my strawberry tree!

Quite a lot of bird activity in the garden,they seem to be stocking up with food ,keep having to replenish it daily ,the bathing is quite a sight with about six or seven at the same time with lots on branches waiting their turn,(Pecking order seems to be the thing) its a lovely sight.

Nudge up, now I've managed to find the thread ( search didn't bring it up )

as we approach winter I am noticing more birds coming and more often, a Jay has just been down, beautiful colouring :-D

I have put up the Coconut again just outside my Patio Doors.Same place as before but I have been very disappointed in the number of birds on it so far :-(
But a lovely sight this afternoon to see the Green Woodpecker enjoying a feast on the lawn :-D
No Earless Squirrel so far.I wonder if it has gone elsewhere now.Does anyone know if Squirrels keep to the same territory each year?.

12 red kites Jane that would be a wonderful sight. Can't think there would be that many buzzards together.

Didn't see that many birds in Tenerife, the resident hawk was overhead most days and a few canaries, a seagull or two and that was about it, but we did spot the fins of about four dolphins just off the shore when we were having lunch one day. :-)

I hear a flock /group of Canada Geese at the same time each morning fly right over us.(I think I mentioned this a little while ago) but then they stopped.Now back again.
They make such a racket they wake the dog up lol.
Bird life has been very quiet in my garden .But hopefully now when I start putting the feeders out again things will liven up.
There are lots of Purple poops all over my patio .Elderberry time :-S

Hello Jane:)

Wow that must have been a sight:)

We've been getting.........:

a couple of Robins, a blackbird every now and then, loads of great tits, coal tits and a few blue tits, 20-30 sparrows, coupe of jackdaws, my crow every now and then, and a nuthatch everyday...he was even sitting on the wires telling Vic to hurry up filling the dishes up:))...he likes the mixed nuts that l crush in my chopping machine:)

jude :-) x

Oh my word.I just realised the last posting was the 20th September !!!!

We saw 12 Red Kites(or could be Buzzards ) the other day.The most I have seen at the same time is 7.They were so high up it was a bit difficult to see properly.

One busy Squirrel in the garden,rushing everywhere with a mouth full of conkers lol
I must start putting the coconuts back up outside the Patio door.I would love to see my Earless Squirrel again (if it is still around).

Just been watching goldfinches and green finches feeding off the feeder on the patio here, really close to the window but of course the camera wasn't.t to hand

Thanks for that Shaun:)

jude :-)

I heard an owl this morning at 6.30.It was still quite dark.I will keep an ear open again in the morning (if I'm awake) and see if I can fathom out where it is coming from.Hopefully from one of our big trees :-D
I found a conker on the patio this morning...think it must have been from a squirrel on manouvers(sp)?Other than that there is not a lot to report bird wise from my garden.