Any keen bird feeders out there?

diluvsdiscounts

After googling images of a juvenile blackbird I think you could be right.

SG27

My female robin has started eating a lot of mealworms the last couple of days and stopped feeding the babies. Maybe she will be laying a second clutch of eggs soon. Mr robin is still hard at work taking worms out my hand. He is very confident now even coming in the back door asking for mealworms! Mrs robin isn't ad forthcoming and always stays at arms length.

rev229

diluvsdiscounts wrote: »

After googling images of a juvenile blackbird I think you could be right.

I have also had a similar bird in my garden. Size of a blackbird, but fatter, black tail with chestnut speckled breast. I think it is a juvenile blackbird. It is very greedy and bossy! It happily sing to me as I put out washing! I have about 10 blackbirds visiting the garden, mainly fighting with each other, very entertaining! The male with the White tail feathers will sit on the wall watching me in the kitchen waiting for the food to go out! The birds have been extremely hungry this week so waiting for them to bring the fledglings into the garden!

Fay

Thanks Rev, maybe it is a juvenile. He's bigger than the other blackbirds and his beak is brown and longer and thinner than the blackbirds. I've tried to get pics but only ever have my phone at hand and they're not close or good enough. I shall keep watching. He comes regularly but never ventures past the suet block!

Happygreen

Mr pheasant has brought in gapeworm parasites, I now have the second sick chicken and it took me a while to figure out what it could be...so Mr pheasant and Mrs will be wormed from today with the hens and ducks

The tits have moved on from the window and the sparrows are still busy nesting in our roof. There will be plenty of tinies soon!

Gers

HP - yeugh!

My sparrows are fighting in the road. Real headbashing going on. I broke up one fight and they flew to the roof and carried on, so much that they fell to the ground again. No idea what is happening.

Back garden birds are still around. I've got roofers in at the moment with more scaffolding and comings and goings but everything time there is a lull the birds come zooming back.

I've stopped the lard in coconut shells for the spring \ summer and will save it for the winter when it's really tough out there.

REEN

Gers, could your sparrows be dunnocks? They have very complicated love lives which can lead to scrapping. http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Dunnock-And-Its-Odd-Mating-Behaviour

Gers

Reen wrote: »

Gers, could your sparrows be dunnocks? They have very complicated love lives which can lead to scrapping. http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Dunnock-And-Its-Odd-Mating-Behaviour

Brilliant! They do look similar (hedge sparrows) so you could be bang on the money. The fights were fairly nasty and prolonged, even in the air.

I shall sit out and watch more tomorrow, hope to get a picture too.

Many thanks, it's very intriguing.

REEN

I was going to use an old mirror in the garden, but it was driving a dunnock crazy, he kept attacking his reflection until I took it away before he hurt himself.

Watched what I think was a take-over bid by two batchelor pigeons for our Mrs Pigeon. She was very interested but some frantic displaying by Mr Pigeon won her back. Sometimes bird watching can be like watching Jeremy Kyle.

Gers

No babies in the garden! But the birds keep on coming. Not as many as winter still.


I've just had to order sealed bins for my bird feed. There is some 'stealing' of black sunflower seeds going on by mice! I have the containers on a table but think I gave them a route up with other stuff next to the side of it. I don't really mind except that there is always the empty husk left behind which means the feeders are full of nothing.

As the stuff next to the table is mostly rubbish I will take this chance and get it all to the tip. Need to reach the lawn mower.