Any keen bird feeders out there?

Gers

Fat goldfinch came back for more!

Primrose

Goldfinches are lovely little birds. We have a pair come to iur bird feeders several times a day for the sunflower seeds and they are inseparable, always arriving and departing together we're hoping that in due course, , like last year, they will bring their babies with them to the feeding station.

KxMx

No baby tits yet but my year round robin has been bringing a baby in :j

Fay

He's very cute Gers and lovely for his rotundness!

Gers

Primrose wrote: »

Goldfinches are lovely little birds. We have a pair come to iur bird feeders several times a day for the sunflower seeds and they are inseparable, always arriving and departing together we're hoping that in due course, , like last year, they will bring their babies with them to the feeding station.

Fay wrote: »

He's very cute Gers and lovely for his rotundness!

All the other goldfinches - and there about at least a dozen in my garden at any one time - are slim and slick, which is why he sticks out. And he's fearless, didn't flinch from my noisy electric mower.

Birds are a joy, I could watch them for hours.

MrsShazbat

I love my birds. I feed them through the winter but the feeder has gone away now so I've just got the bird table and bath (feeder is fastened to my clothes post when I'm not using my washing line) so I'm not too popular with my feathered friends right now. I noticed that they weren't as bothered about the suet pellets this year - but then we had a mild winter. I noticed 2 pairs of goldfinches this weekend at the end of the garden, where I have a wild section. They didn't come close although they have been known to. The blackbirds are regular visitors - I have a particularly wormy garden so they're usually quite happy. I get chaffinches, goldfinches, long tailed tits, blue tits, coal tits, great tits, sparrows, starlings, wood pigeons, collared doves, blackbirds, 2 robins (the juvenile has taught itself to hang on the feeders, so I can tell which is the adult and which is the baby), dunnocks, wrens, magpies, the odd feral pigeon, crows, jackdaws, and once when we first moved in, a spotted woodpecker (the last time I thought I heard it knocking, it was actually a crow imitating it!!). Oh, and squirrels and foxes. Working on attracting hedgehogs. We have a large bluebell wood about half a mile from us so that's where they come from.

Winter was so mild I've got a 2kg sack of seed in my shed that isn't even open. I keep chucking a bit out, plus some mealworms (as they go mouldy if unused, as I discovered last autumn) but there isn't really any need at the moment.

torbrex

Saw the first sparrow chick in my garden today :T
Strange that there was only one though, mum was jumping from the feeder to the bush where the chick was and back again and didn't seem to be looking after any other chicks.

torbrex

Starling chicks have arrived this afternoon as well :T :T

Waterlily24

I'm not sure what happened to the sparrows in our nest box. They've been visiting for a while but I haven't seen them for two or three days. Could they have fledged already?


I was hoping I would see them. Don't want to disturb the box yet.


We put one of the camera boxes up but I think it was too late for anything to nest in it. A couple of blue tits were around but hubby had put a perch on the box, we didn't realise that blue tits flew straight into the box and didn't use the perch.

Primrose

About three families of Starling babies arrived here too today. Noisy creatures! . The container of suet pellets disappeared in less than 30 minutes!