Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

zagubov

Generali wrote: »

I'm guessing your neighbours are a male couple from the music (nothing at all wrong with that obviously).

In Zombie Robot Apocalypse News:

It Begins

I thought zombie robot apocalypse looked like an address in the new Mongolian address location system and found it's a town in Germany instead.

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........................something's bugging me :think:

bugslet

chris_m wrote: »

It's become a bit of a battle of wits - which I am determined not to lose

A greenfinch has just visited and eventually worked out how to get to the seeds, that's about the largest species that I anticipate visiting and being welcome. I've currently got about eight goldfinches bickering away over whose turn it is

The starlings have been coming in but eventually giving up . It's been quite amusing watching them try though. Occasionally one lands on the windowsill instead and all I can see is its head - beak apart it's very reminiscent of some of the velociraptor scenes in Jurassic park

For some reason the birdfeeders at home are not popular, maybe too much choice around, but at work, we have a lovely selection of finches and tits turning up. I had the same problem with pigeons who are surprisingly inventive - I've solved them getting to the feeders, but they all hang around waiting for spare seeds dropping when the finches are around. Very irritating.

chris_m

bugslet wrote: »

For some reason the birdfeeders at home are not popular, maybe too much choice around, but at work, we have a lovely selection of finches and tits turning up. I had the same problem with pigeons who are surprisingly inventive - I've solved them getting to the feeders, but they all hang around waiting for spare seeds dropping when the finches are around. Very irritating.

Hehe, the finches sure are messy eaters - grabbing a seed and just crunching it, ignoring what falls off. Sparrows are similar.
The blue tits are far more refined, they take a seed and hold it on the perch with their feet while they peck at it. Don't know about the great tits, they seem to come in, grab a seed and take it away to eat.

CKhalvashi

Facebook says it's the first day of summer........

chris_m

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Facebook says it's the first day of summer........

Where ?

PixelPound

bugslet wrote: »

For some reason the birdfeeders at home are not popular, maybe too much choice around, but at work, we have a lovely selection of finches and tits turning up. I had the same problem with pigeons who are surprisingly inventive - I've solved them getting to the feeders, but they all hang around waiting for spare seeds dropping when the finches are around. Very irritating.

We used to live in a top floor maisonette flat that had a lower ground flat at the back, making us 3rd floor up. We put window feeders on (no garden) and for a long time no birds came (the nearest cover was trees about 20 m away), then with snow on the ground in winter we started to get a few bluetits and finches, and popularity grew. They'd go through a fatball in a day, and be queuing up for the perspex window feeder (one or two in it, one on the windowsill waiting and at least another clung on to the wall just to the side of the window keeping watch). It was then getting used in spring and summer