Any keen bird feeders out there?

Gers

I'm dreading the starling chicks - last year they tried to dominate the feeders but couldn't manage to hold on, and they're so noisy too.

This morning, after my first perambulation of the garden, I went back out and saw a siskin just sitting on the ground under the bird feeder. When I walked past it didn't move. I walked past again, closer this time and it still didn't move, it was injured. I left it a wee while and it was still there when I went back so I gently picked it up and put it in a flowerpot and then asked the farmer to come over to dispatch it. Just as I sent the text the wee thing literally rolled over, it's wee feet curled up and it died.

I wasn't looking forward to the dispatch but I couldn't bear to leave it to either starve to death or get more beaten up by other birds. Think it probably died of fright. Such a shame.

The siskins and chaffinches are very prone to fighting so I suspect this one got injured in a round of fisticuffs.

The squirrel is still coming in to scoff the waste sunflower seeds. I'm now letting the feeders run down completely and then be empty for one day so that they all eat the stuff they threw out! It soon goes so can't be that bad.

Ken68

Sad Gers, nature is cruel.

lardlikesdogs

Need an Id if anyone can


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cajef

lardlikesdogs wrote: »

Need an Id if anyone can

Looks like a coal tit.

lardlikesdogs

cajef wrote: »

Looks like a coal tit.

Cheers , I thought maybe marsh,coal or willow tit hear is the back view

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cajef

lardlikesdogs wrote: »

Cheers , I thought maybe marsh,coal or willow tit hear is the back view

Looking at the second picture you could be right, however telling the difference is not easy.

http://www.bto.org/about-birds/bird-id/telling-apart-marsh-and-willow-tits

lardlikesdogs

Thanks for that , I sent a pic to the RSPB and they have just got back to me and confirmed a Marsh Tit , I must admit I looked at both online and couldn't work out which one it might be.
Its the first one I have ever seen , Thanks again .

Gers

The starlings have arrived. :eek:

Primrose

I would have said Coal Tit too, but not sure we've ever had Marsh or Willow Tits round here to be able to compare and spot the difference.

cally6008

Boxes of 150 fat balls (12kg approx) are now £6-99 in the local B&M

Good job as well because the past couple of days, the birds are nearly emptying 3 feeders of them. Not complaining though cos love seeing the baby sparrows and baby starlings