The Birds - I was Wrong
"Jake" wrote in message
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Earlier I predicted that the local bird population would, as they have
doine for years, disappear for the weekend as today/tomorrow are the
RSPB's birdwatch days.
I was wrong this year, for once!
Our first nuthatch appeared, early for round here, and was as nutty as
his or her predecessors have been - though not in any way anti the
idea of sharing the bird table with others. A robin appeared on the
bird table just before a flock of starlings swooped in. Poor little
robin was hemmed in on all sides until he managed to escape and joined
the tits hanging from the peanut feeder - I've never seen a robin
hanging from a mesh feeder before.
The main event was a bird appearing on a hanging feeder that turned
out to be a male green woodpecker - first time for one of those here
though we get great spotted ones regularly.
The only laugh was that after the hour of birdwatching, accompanied by
a decent bottle of wine as I couldn't go out and dig as that would
disturb the birds (that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it!), I tried
to submit the results and found that all links to the RSPB's birdwatch
site returned "not working " errors!
So this year it's birds 1, RSPB 0!
Otherwise, significant changes this year are the total absence of
sparrows, collared doves and magpies. FWIW next door is a farm.
How did others fare?
Sparrows are gone since their roosting place was felled by a new neighbour.
Had a few blackbirds, dunnocks and wrens.
Plenty robins, still no collared doves, lots of woodpigeons.
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