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Post by Missredhead on Jan 29, 2011 10:26:57 GMT
noooo.....I said that they looked like robins but had no red breast so I thought that they were sparrows!!
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Post by Jasmine on Jan 29, 2011 13:04:21 GMT
I've just filled up the bird feeders and the birds are swooping in and taking the black sunflower seeds - the peanuts and suet blocks are not being touched.
There's a garden bird poster in The Telegraph today.
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Post by Chuckles on Jan 29, 2011 13:52:09 GMT
I was just about to go fill my feeders up but realised the new bag of seed is still in the boot from shopping and OH has gone out  Bought a different mix today, Harrisons deluxe wild bird food. A 20kg bag was £15.99 a few quid more than my usual stuff but it has more of a variety in it......Wheat, Barley, Cut Maize, Yellow Millet, Black Sunflower Seed, Pinhead Oatmeal, Buckwheat, Red Dari, Peanut Granules, Canary Seed, Red Millet, Split Peas, Linseed, Oats, Sunflower Hearts, Small Sunflower Seed, Hemp Seed. Hope they like it  |
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Post by Jasmine on Jan 29, 2011 20:27:26 GMT
I was just telling OH that this morning I was putting some recycling out it in the bin but as I was about to come in I saw a movement in the hedge. It was a tiny wren and it had a caterpillar in its beak - it slapped the caterpillar on the ground a good few times and then swallowed it.
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Post by Missredhead on Jan 29, 2011 20:43:49 GMT
vicious really arent they?
but thats nature I guess
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Post by Jasmine on Jan 29, 2011 20:46:14 GMT
Aren't they? I wondered if the wren was trying to kill it or move it round until it could swallow it  |
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Post by Missredhead on Jan 29, 2011 20:47:46 GMT
I get a couple of wrens in the garden but they only ever scuttle around the beds and the trellis....
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Post by JennyWrenn on Jan 30, 2011 6:51:22 GMT
I dont think I have actually seen a Wren Maybe thought I saw one but only the once  |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Jan 30, 2011 6:52:03 GMT
noooo.....I said that they looked like robins but had no red breast so I thought that they were sparrows!! Sorry Missy  |
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Post by Jasmine on Jan 30, 2011 6:53:09 GMT
I don't think I've ever been so close to one. It was so intent on caterpillar bashing it didn't notice me. Wish I'd had the camera.
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Post by JennyWrenn on Jan 30, 2011 6:57:34 GMT
Yesterday in Northwich I saw two enormous birds in a tree driving down a country lane - I wish I had had my camera too - one of them set off - it was flying really slowly so I would have had time to snap it - it was much much bigger than a Sparrow Hawk
Note to Self
TAKE CAMERA WITH YOU WHEN YOU ARE IN THE CAR
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Post by farmersboy on Jan 30, 2011 7:40:56 GMT
You saw two enormous birds in a tree driving downa country lane,Jen,............a mobile tree eh ;D
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Post by JennyWrenn on Jan 30, 2011 7:53:39 GMT
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Post by Louisa on Jan 30, 2011 8:18:56 GMT
noooo.....I said that they looked like robins but had no red breast so I thought that they were sparrows!! a female blackcap looks like a robin. It's shape and colour could quite easily be mistaken for one. |
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Post by farmersboy on Jan 30, 2011 8:34:28 GMT
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Post by Chuckles on Jan 30, 2011 10:41:38 GMT
I was just about to go fill my feeders up but realised the new bag of seed is still in the boot from shopping and OH has gone out Bought a different mix today, Harrisons deluxe wild bird food. A 20kg bag was £15.99 a few quid more than my usual stuff but it has more of a variety in it......Wheat, Barley, Cut Maize, Yellow Millet, Black Sunflower Seed, Pinhead Oatmeal, Buckwheat, Red Dari, Peanut Granules, Canary Seed, Red Millet, Split Peas, Linseed, Oats, Sunflower Hearts, Small Sunflower Seed, Hemp Seed. Hope they like it I filled 3 tube feeders up just before daylight this morning and they are now only 2/3rds full, I think they like it ;D I wonder if the different mix of seeds will bring in some of the less common birds |
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Post by Missredhead on Jan 30, 2011 11:15:58 GMT
Well I sat with my birdwatch paper and there have been hardly any birds this morning...yesterday there were loads but I was busy..............  Think they may be camera shy  |
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Post by Jilly on Jan 30, 2011 11:28:48 GMT
I didn't get round to downloading my birdwatch paper yesterday, but I did a sort of practice run while I was in the kitchen potting up yesterday afternoon, I don't think they'll be very interested in 2 Wood Pigeons & a Starling i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/rolleyes.gif Some days I get loads of birds coming in & out but others hardly anything at all. Jillyx |
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Post by Missredhead on Jan 30, 2011 11:31:29 GMT
I have had loads more this past couple of weeks and at different times of the day..the tits usually come early in the morning but they were there yesterday afternoon too..
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Post by Ladygardener on Jan 30, 2011 12:20:01 GMT
I was just about to go fill my feeders up but realised the new bag of seed is still in the boot from shopping and OH has gone out Bought a different mix today, Harrisons deluxe wild bird food. A 20kg bag was £15.99 a few quid more than my usual stuff but it has more of a variety in it......Wheat, Barley, Cut Maize, Yellow Millet, Black Sunflower Seed, Pinhead Oatmeal, Buckwheat, Red Dari, Peanut Granules, Canary Seed, Red Millet, Split Peas, Linseed, Oats, Sunflower Hearts, Small Sunflower Seed, Hemp Seed. Hope they like it I filled 3 tube feeders up just before daylight this morning and they are now only 2/3rds full, I think they like it ;D I wonder if the different mix of seeds will bring in some of the less common birds That's great Chuckles, fingers crossed for you. i221.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/GWDAdmin1/Smilies/Default/cheesy.gif |
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Post by madonplants on Jan 31, 2011 10:25:26 GMT
I didn't get round to downloading my birdwatch paper yesterday, but I did a sort of practice run while I was in the kitchen potting up yesterday afternoon, I don't think they'll be very interested in 2 Wood Pigeons & a Starling  Some days I get loads of birds coming in & out but others hardly anything at all. Jillyx You'd be surprised, as no birds can help just as much as 50 birds! |
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Post by Ladygardener on Jan 31, 2011 12:29:33 GMT
I've just made my 1st feeders to hang on the obelisk. I'm dying to see how the birds like it. I used a couple of pine cones and smothered a mix of peanut butter, seeds, sunflower hearts and suet pellets onto it. I hope they like it as I've made loads and have put the rest of it into the fridge. I was encouraged this morning by seeing the chaffinch feeding off one of the feeders. ;D |
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Post by Missredhead on Jan 31, 2011 19:52:09 GMT
take a pic please LG....
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Post by Ladygardener on Jan 31, 2011 20:21:15 GMT
They're just cones with seeds smeared on them Missy, I'll take a pic tomorrow, not one bird came near them today, or do you mean the chaffinch next time I see it. I will certainly take one if I can get one. |
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Post by Missredhead on Jan 31, 2011 20:40:28 GMT
The cones LG...sounds like a good idea, hope it works...
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 1, 2011 6:32:55 GMT
;D I've got a right bit of the mixture left over which I'd put in the fridge in a bowl. You know it smells and looks good enough to eat. I might put some onto the bird table to see if they'll eat it off the table. |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Feb 1, 2011 6:41:41 GMT
I heard lady that there are birds that only eat off the ground - strange I know - my blackbird and robin much prefer to eat that way whilst the sparrows happily eat from the dish and bird table plus of course the tits too
I dont think the robin will ever hang off the peanut balls
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 1, 2011 6:46:35 GMT
For sure JW, my Thrush and Blackbirds will only ever eat from the ground and I have 2 ground feeders with fat balls and seeds on them just for them. The robin will go to either the table, the ground or the special suet pellet feeder which Jenny bought me at Christmas time. The starlings will eat from anywhere but they're too big for the pine cones. |
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Post by Ladygardener on Feb 1, 2011 6:47:19 GMT
Ment to say, it's really the tits that I've done the pine cones for. Maybe the Chaffinch if it comes back. |
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Post by JennyWrenn on Feb 1, 2011 6:49:58 GMT
You are too kind Lady I hope they thank you ;D Am hoping my Robin wont nest again by my back door but then again I hope he does |
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