"Josie" wrote in message
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Message from Kate on Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:03:58
No Visitors:

I am not going to bother any more. I spend a lot of money on
proprietary foods and also make my own, but all we get in the garden
are pigeons and starlings. Occasionally a robin and a couple of
blackbirds will deign to visit, and now and again a blue tit, but
that`s it.
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Kate

I suggest you scatter some bread on the lawn or other open space.
This attracts sparrows and starlings and in turn they will attract
other species.
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Good news! I bought a feeding station on Friday and yesterday we
placed it in an open position but still with perching spots not too
far away. Today we have had blue, great, and long-tailed tits and one
coal tit. A solitary male blackcap stayed around for quite a while,
and a small group of chaffinches dropped by. A pied wagtail was a
regular and a grey wagtail appeared very briefly on the roof of the
bungalow but didn`t investigate further. We saw a bullfinch in the
oak tree behind our garden, but, alas, it didn`t come down into the
garden. Maybe tomorrow? All these in addition to the usual
starlings, robin, blackbirds, pigeon and magpie. I do hope this trend
continues.

Now I should own up to what is, probably, a character flaw : it is not
enough that the birds visit the garden. I *must* get photos of them.
We have had a hide in the garden for nearly a year, and today managed
to move it so that I can focus my long lens on the new feeding
station. Tomorrow, if the weather is bright, I shall be out there
waiting...

Thanks for all the advice.

Happy Christmas!
Kate