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Bird and wildlife watching
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Annx | Report | 9 Sep 2013 21:52 |
Yes, I had a 'google' AnninG and it seems North or East are the best way to face. That is good as they will be on the left hand side of the garden or the bottom facing the bungalow where I can see the birds go in an out. I'll have to make sure the cats can't get to them though, or the squirrels. I think I'll fix some sort of down facing collar on the pole like vet's use on dogs and cats!! |
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Diamonds-R-A-Girls-Best-Friend | Report | 9 Sep 2013 22:14 |
Annx if you find a way of keeping magpies away please tell share your secret. I think you will get blue tits nesting whatever way your box faces the most important thing is the size of the hole into the box. |
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kandj | Report | 9 Sep 2013 22:41 |
Usual birds feeding today and all a pleasure to watch. Blackbirds, the regular and not brewers blackbird which I doubt will return here again (boo hoo). Thrushes and sparrows, doves and pigeons who are so big they look almost like hens and we are amazed that they can fly away?! |
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Jane | Report | 10 Sep 2013 17:48 |
Well I don't know what is going on but I am having to top up the plastic feeder that is stuck on my window several times a day at the moment.It's so busy :-D |
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Diamonds-R-A-Girls-Best-Friend | Report | 10 Sep 2013 20:15 |
I've just got in from an out of town open air retail park and the car park was absolutely covered in pied wagtails, it was amazing to see :-D |
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kandj | Report | 12 Sep 2013 21:43 |
Not at all pleased today. My neighbour kindly offered to prune the tree at the bottom of our garden.. I could see that he has a new mini-chain new toy and so I agreed thinking it would save me a job. |
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kandj | Report | 16 Sep 2013 14:08 |
I have calmed down now and pondered what I could do to encourage the birds to still use my garden tree even though their once safe home is now "open-plan" |
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Christine | Report | 16 Sep 2013 19:50 |
You have my complete sympathy kandj. There is a short service road behind my house which is for the use of the owners of the 5 houses that were built there. One man keeps doing exactly the same thing to my hawthorn hedge and other neighbours greenery. It is not even as though the hedge is overhanging his garden! |
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Jane | Report | 16 Sep 2013 20:12 |
I'm sure the birds will find their way back especially with lots of food to tempt them.What a stupid neighbour :-S :-S.Obviously not a bird lover. |
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kandj | Report | 16 Sep 2013 23:36 |
Christine, thanks for the sympathy and kind words. I had accepted my neighbours offer to "prune" my tree and hadn't expected that he would decimate it when I was out!! |
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Diamonds-R-A-Girls-Best-Friend | Report | 17 Sep 2013 01:00 |
kandj lets hope your tree grows back bigger and thicker than before it was sabotaged . |
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Diamonds-R-A-Girls-Best-Friend | Report | 17 Sep 2013 18:30 |
Today we had a magnificent looking flock of Canadian geese pass over our house, that's the first I've seen of them this summer/autumn :-D |
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kandj | Report | 17 Sep 2013 21:49 |
Wow Lesley, that must have been amazing. Are these the noisy geese that usually form a V shape in the sky? |
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Jane | Report | 17 Sep 2013 22:27 |
Kandj |
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AnninGlos | Report | 17 Sep 2013 22:37 |
Go on Jane! You wouldn't change your garden. But it will probably look better once the tree surgeons have been. Round here in Tenerife North the 'council' gardeners have been busy cutting back trees and shrubs and everywhere looks much tidier and lighter. |
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Jane | Report | 18 Sep 2013 17:37 |
I gather Ann you must been on your hols in Tenerife :-D :-D.I love watching our Red Kite that seems to be back again.It was so low today just crossing over the garden ,and i didn't have my camera at hand :-S.It looked so beautiful. |
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kandj | Report | 22 Sep 2013 20:30 |
I am continuing to fill the seed feeders and my little feathered friends keep emptying them. |
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kandj | Report | 26 Sep 2013 23:18 |
Our chopped up tree is sprouting tiny leaves. I have had to look twice, but its true! |
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Diamonds-R-A-Girls-Best-Friend | Report | 27 Sep 2013 21:45 |
kandj that is great news re your tree :-) |
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AnninGlos | Report | 27 Sep 2013 22:04 |
I did read somewhere by the RSPB that if you feed birds in the winter they rely on that feed source and flying back to find it empty wastes valuable energy. So birds should be fed all year round. |
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