On Tue, 06 Nov 2012 17:18:16 +0000, The Original Jake
wrote:

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


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 only blackbird bully here is a feisty female who bullies the males
if they dare land in the same garden as her.

This spring one of the young ones I could tell was going too trouble,
the various antics it did to get into places and later in the year the
fruit cages fully justified the nickname we gave it of Asbo becuse it
should have been given one . Little sod used to use me as protection ,
attack one of it's relations then fly back and sit on my foot.

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!

Watched last year as a blue tit having been bumped off by a Woodpecker
appeared to work out that flying back onto the bottom of the feeder at
speed swung it violently, enough to disconcert the Woodpecker into
leaving.
I probably spend as much on birdfood as the TV licence . The Birds are
often more entertaining.

G.Harman