RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted July 11, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2018 if you think sparrows are messy our goldfinches seem to put more seed on the floor that they eat i have a very good crop of whatever Niger seed grows in to John 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted July 11, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2018 if you think sparrows are messy our goldfinches seem to put more seed on the floor that they eat i have a very good crop of whatever Niger seed grows in to John Be careful though, some commercial bird seed contains cannabis seed. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted July 11, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2018 Be careful though, some commercial bird seed contains cannabis seed. Thanks i know this so any thing the looks like cannabis gets pulled up very quickly 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted July 11, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2018 (edited) if you think sparrows are messy our goldfinches seem to put more seed on the floor that they eat i have a very good crop of whatever Niger seed grows in to John Nyjer is exotic thistle seed. Edited July 11, 2018 by dhjgreen Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jbqfc Posted July 11, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 11, 2018 the sparrows are on to a second brood got a garden full of fledgling they must be about 20 of them John 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 Our garden birds are of the ex.seafaring type... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted July 15, 2018 Share Posted July 15, 2018 (edited) Ratus aeronauticus! Edited July 20, 2018 by shortliner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted July 15, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 15, 2018 Ratus aeronaticus! One of these things stole my Bara Brith at Beaumaris a couple of years ago pah! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Tim Dubya Posted July 17, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 17, 2018 (edited) Lots of juvenile Goldie's in the garden last couple of days. One in particular is very tame allowing me to get with in a yard or so (I was filling one of our niger feeders at the time though). Edited July 17, 2018 by Tim Dubya 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted July 20, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 20, 2018 Three young greenfinches sitting in the lilac next to the feeder loudly shouting feed me. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted July 22, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 22, 2018 Seven LTTs on the fatballs, all contact calling. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve1 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Appropriately enough as we're only 30 miles from Hull, there are lots of housemartins about at the moment. Noisy aren't they? serve 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted July 22, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 22, 2018 I'm not a bird watcher, but what a fascinating & dedicated search from Australia. https://www.theage.com.au/national/saving-australia-s-angriest-bird-from-itself-20180720-p4zsp0.html 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horsetan Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 (edited) These two turned up late this afternoon... EDIT: apparently they are green woodpeckers, which explains why they were going up and down the tree trunk from time to time like a pair of automatic lifts. Edited July 23, 2018 by Horsetan 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
choo1choo Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Not strictly a garden bird but a load of Little Egrets have just descended on the banks of our estuary[south West Wales]. Last year we had around 30/40 every evening in the trees by the river...looks like 50/60 at the moment. They disappeared at the end of last autumn..nice to see them back...unless you are a fish! 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 23, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 23, 2018 Very sadly, a juvenile Goldfinch that we have watched maturing this last month, has just hit a window after being chased from the water bath by a Blackbird. It did not survive. Beautiful little thing. Phil Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 81C Posted July 23, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 23, 2018 Her indoors has stared to feed 2 very friendly young robins in the back garden I hope the bigger birds leave them alone. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Turpin Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Swallows here are circling, sweeping screeching and otherwise doing a pretty convincing Battle of Britain reenactment. Honestly, you want to see the aerobatics - multiples of birds doing tight turns, other multiples slicing through them in unison, the whole scene is just a marvel to sit and watch with a gin and tonic in hand. hic. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 If they are screeching, are the birds more likely to be swifts? I rarely hear swallows making much noise at all, apart from a few chirrup-like sounds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 These two turned up late this afternoon... IMG_20180722_182659_SHOT2SHOT91.jpg EDIT: apparently they are green woodpeckers, which explains why they were going up and down the tree trunk from time to time like a pair of automatic lifts. Yes, following ants up and down the trees I suspect. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 24, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 24, 2018 Swallows here are circling, sweeping screeching and otherwise doing a pretty convincing Battle of Britain reenactment. Honestly, you want to see the aerobatics - multiples of birds doing tight turns, other multiples slicing through them in unison, the whole scene is just a marvel to sit and watch with a gin and tonic in hand. hic. Sounds like Swift to me. Are they Boomerang shaped and black? They scream and shout and whizz it all about, usually just before they go home. Whatever they are that is a great way to spend an evening. P 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Clive Mortimore Posted July 27, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 27, 2018 Swallows, second clutch are doing well. Sadly one fell out the nest and Mrs M tried to get it back in but the hot weather defeated her efforts and his life. The other 4 are fine. She also found a Blackbird fledgling in the horses water butt. We were visited by a Bullfinch this evening. Baby Pheasants in the long grass on the new paddock. As it is raining tonight we have loads of blackbirds pulling up worms, something they haven't been doing with our clay soil in the hot weather. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted July 28, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 28, 2018 I would be surprised if I found a Blackbird fledging in my Butt. Most of 'our' birds have been hiding for a couple of days but are now out in force. Common Sandpiper in my 'other garden' yesterday. P 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bike2steam Posted July 28, 2018 Share Posted July 28, 2018 Yesterday enjoying my morning coffee in a deckchair in our garden, and watching six Buzzards lazily soaring in a thermal above, then noticed the bottom one was a Honey Buzzard, great, stay fella and help keep the Wasp count down. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted July 28, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 28, 2018 Alas the best pic I could get of this chap was as he took off. unusually for a Red Kite this one is quite happy to sit on the ground stuffing his face although he had earlier flown done to help himself with a 'picjh up' job. All in all he's rather unusual as he spends a lot of time sitting on our neighbour's tv aerial. 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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