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The Original Jake · 06-11-2012, 05:18 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:57:52 +0000, wrote:

On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 13:37:30 GMT, Baz wrote:

Yesterday morning and this morning we have had quite hard frosts and it
occured to me that I have not heard a Thrush making that loud noise that
they do in these mornings. In fact, I can't remember seeing a bird this
autumn. Come to that, this year.

Baz

What, no Birds at all or just no Thrushes?

If it is none the I'm amazed but not seeing a Thrush I wouldn't be
surprised about. A couple usually visit our garden in the Spring but
because the Blackbirds bully them visits after that are rare until
about now.A thrush started to venture in again this week and has
returned frequently despite the Blackbirds regularly seeing it off.
The numbers of birds of various types around here seems reasonably
healthy at the moment, a relative commented during a phone call that
she could hear the chattering chorus in the background.

G.Harman

The only blackbird bully here is a feisty female who bullies the males
if they dare land in the same garden as her. I have never noticed any
inter-species bullying apart from magpies who bully everything and
starlings who invade in such numbers as to scare everything else away
by sheer quantity.

The woodpecker (only one now) doesn't like the squirrel that tries
(unsuccessfully) to break into the peanut feeder and sees it off with
some head pecks but if something small like a tit or sparrow then
lands on the feeder, woodpecker gets scared off!

Overall bird numbers and varieties are, if anything, higher this year
than in previous years.

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.