No visitors today :-(
I have cleaned and replenished the feeders, but no takers???
How's your garden for activity today?


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No visitors today :-(
I have cleaned and replenished the feeders, but no takers???
How's your garden for activity today?

Alive with Blackbirds, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Siskins,
House Sparrows, Dunnocks, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Blue Tits and a Robin.

Nice to see them all.

Anne

Anne Burgess wrote:

Alive with Blackbirds, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Siskins,
House Sparrows, Dunnocks, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Blue Tits and a Robin.

Blackbird, magpies, blue tits, squirrels and a crow, a noisy one at
that.

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Anne Burgess wrote:

Alive with Blackbirds, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Siskins,
House Sparrows, Dunnocks, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Blue Tits and a Robin.

Blackbird, magpies, blue tits, squirrels and a crow, a noisy one at
that.


Silence here, apart from the odd helicopter (No they didn't land in my
garden)

:-)

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Silence here, apart from the odd helicopter (No they didn't land in my
garden)

:-)

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Not even when you went out and threw crumbs at them???

;-)

Duncan

La puce wrote:
Anne Burgess wrote:

Alive with Blackbirds, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Goldfinches,
Siskins, House Sparrows, Dunnocks, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Blue Tits
and a Robin.

Blackbird, magpies, blue tits, squirrels and a crow, a noisy one at
that.

Rose-ringed parakeet.

And ..... (I'm afraid I can't resist it)

..... a partridge in a pear tree.

"Anne Burgess" wrote in message
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No visitors today :-(
I have cleaned and replenished the feeders, but no takers???
How's your garden for activity today?

Alive with Blackbirds, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Siskins,
House Sparrows, Dunnocks, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Blue Tits and a Robin.

Nice to see them all.

Anne


Wow that's an impressive list Anne!
I really can't understand why they haven't been here today, I hope I haven't
killed them off??
Usually see Blackbirds, Coal Tits, Sparrows, Greenfinch.
But today ______________

Looks like I'll have to go back to the old fashioned method and chuck some
bread on the lawn :-)


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OOPS
forgot Robin

Anne Burgess wrote:

No visitors today :-(

I have cleaned and replenished the feeders, but no takers???

What did you clean it with? They may not like the smell...

How's your garden for activity today?

Alive with Blackbirds, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Siskins,
House Sparrows, Dunnocks, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Blue Tits and a Robin.

About the same except the goldfinches don't ever come to the feeder.
Also the odd wren, pheasant, wood pigeon, crow and magpie in the garden.
And a woodpecker attacking the electricity pole opposite.

Nice to see them all.

One thing that is a bit strange with our local sparrows is that they
have learnt to cling onto vertical rendered walls and bird feeders
intended for tits and finches. They clean us out in a day or two!

I have tried shortening the perch but that inconveniences the finches
without significantly affecting the sparrows.

Regards,
Martin Brown

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Anne Burgess wrote:

No visitors today :-(

I have cleaned and replenished the feeders, but no takers???

What did you clean it with? They may not like the smell...

How's your garden for activity today?

Alive with Blackbirds, Chaffinches, Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Siskins,
House Sparrows, Dunnocks, Great Tits, Coal Tits, Blue Tits and a Robin.

About the same except the goldfinches don't ever come to the feeder. Also
the odd wren, pheasant, wood pigeon, crow and magpie in the garden. And a
woodpecker attacking the electricity pole opposite.

Nice to see them all.

One thing that is a bit strange with our local sparrows is that they have
learnt to cling onto vertical rendered walls and bird feeders intended for
tits and finches. They clean us out in a day or two!

I have tried shortening the perch but that inconveniences the finches
without significantly affecting the sparrows.

Regards,
Martin Brown

Hi Martin

Just cleaned them with washing up liquid, and rinsed well.
The sparrows just hop around on the ground so far as I know, but will
observe and see
if they learn any tricks. I was surprised when I first saw a Robin use the
fat ball feeder!
No woodpecker attacks !!!!

James

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No visitors today :-(
I have cleaned and replenished the feeders, but no takers???
How's your garden for activity today?


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Just noticed on my AWS (which updates on my website) that the wind has
reached 20mph, average 9mph, so that may put our small feathered friends
from flying today?

James

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I have cleaned and replenished the feeders, but no takers???
How's your garden for activity today?


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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. The peanuts shrivel, the sunflower hearts get damp from
condensation and go mouldy - and so on and so on. As I mentioned in
an earlier post, I think our garden is bird-friendly, but the birds
just aren`t friendly to us. When I remember the varieties we used to
get in the garden when we lived in the Fens, I get very downhearted.
Admittedly, our quarter-of-an-acre garden there was an oasis in the
middle of intensively-farmed arable fields, but we didn`t put much
food out and we had : robin, blackbird, blue tit, great tit, wren,
fieldfare, yellow wagtail, pied wagtail, turtle dove, cuckoo
(youngsters that gorged on the hairy caterpillars bivouaced in the
hawthorn hedge), pheasant, partridge (I had a `pet` partridge who
would sit on my shoulder like a parrot!), warbler, greenfinch, linnet,
house sparrow and even a black redstart passing through. We had
hares, shrews, and stoats in the garden and horseshoe bats in the
roof. As I suggested before, I think there are too many people
feeding too few birds where we live now, but I can`t think of anything
else we could do to entice them, so I`m admitting defeat.

Kate

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I have cleaned and replenished the feeders, but no takers???
How's your garden for activity today?


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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. The peanuts shrivel, the sunflower hearts get damp from
condensation and go mouldy - and so on and so on. As I mentioned in
an earlier post, I think our garden is bird-friendly, but the birds
just aren`t friendly to us. When I remember the varieties we used to
get in the garden when we lived in the Fens, I get very downhearted.
Admittedly, our quarter-of-an-acre garden there was an oasis in the
middle of intensively-farmed arable fields, but we didn`t put much
food out and we had : robin, blackbird, blue tit, great tit, wren,
fieldfare, yellow wagtail, pied wagtail, turtle dove, cuckoo
(youngsters that gorged on the hairy caterpillars bivouaced in the
hawthorn hedge), pheasant, partridge (I had a `pet` partridge who
would sit on my shoulder like a parrot!), warbler, greenfinch, linnet,
house sparrow and even a black redstart passing through. We had
hares, shrews, and stoats in the garden and horseshoe bats in the
roof. As I suggested before, I think there are too many people
feeding too few birds where we live now, but I can`t think of anything
else we could do to entice them, so I`m admitting defeat.

Kate




I can see why you feel like giving up Kate from what you say, you must be
well ****ed off
Last resort maybe the Christmas pudding trick ;-)
Put up a sign "All welcome here" (apart from cats)
Seriously I would have thought that once you get some birds in your garden
others will follow
Happy Christmas

James

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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. The peanuts shrivel, the sunflower hearts get damp from
condensation and go mouldy - and so on and so on. As I mentioned in
an earlier post, I think our garden is bird-friendly, but the birds
just aren`t friendly to us. When I remember the varieties we used to
get in the garden when we lived in the Fens, I get very downhearted.
Admittedly, our quarter-of-an-acre garden there was an oasis in the
middle of intensively-farmed arable fields, but we didn`t put much
food out and we had : robin, blackbird, blue tit, great tit, wren,
fieldfare, yellow wagtail, pied wagtail, turtle dove, cuckoo
(youngsters that gorged on the hairy caterpillars bivouaced in the
hawthorn hedge), pheasant, partridge (I had a `pet` partridge who
would sit on my shoulder like a parrot!), warbler, greenfinch, linnet,
house sparrow and even a black redstart passing through. We had
hares, shrews, and stoats in the garden and horseshoe bats in the
roof. As I suggested before, I think there are too many people
feeding too few birds where we live now, but I can`t think of anything
else we could do to entice them, so I`m admitting defeat.

But is your garden full of mature shrubs and trees for them to feel safe
when perched on?
We find that the feeder on the pole in the middle of the garden (good view
all round?) does better trade than the one on the bird table next to the
fence, it's also within easy hop of our Camellia bushes (to 14ft tall) and
we notice the birds tend to land on there first and have a good look around
before coming to the feeder.

Haven't looked today. too busy, but the other day in an hour before lunch to
our amazement we saw in our tiny little garden...
Dunnock, Blackbirds, Robins (2 fighting), Starlings, Lesser Spotted
Woodpecker, Sparrows (lots), Coal Tits, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Greenfinch,
Goldfinch, Collared Doves, Wood Pigeon, and 4 Ring Necked Parakeets (big
population wild around here) you should have seen the Starlings scatter.
http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/r...keet/index.asp
Haven't seen our usual Wren & Goldcrest for a while though.

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"Kate" wrote in message
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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. snip
As I suggested before, I think there are too many people
feeding too few birds where we live now, but I can`t think of
anything
else we could do to entice them, so I`m admitting defeat.


But is your garden full of mature shrubs and trees for them to feel
safe when perched on?
We find that the feeder on the pole in the middle of the garden
(good view all round?) does better trade than the one on the bird
table next to the fence, it's also within easy hop of our Camellia
bushes (to 14ft tall) and we notice the birds tend to land on there
first and have a good look around before coming to the feeder.

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In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London


Yes, indeed, both evergreen and deciduous. Mature trees the other
side of the bottom fence, too - oak, birch, holly and pine. Our
feeders are suspended under a wooden arch, so are fairly open, but not
so much that the birds are in danger of being taken by a sparrowhawk.
The 3 bird tables are dotted about, and all within a few wing beats of
cover. I leave the seed heads on plants like the echinacea and we
have shrubs which have berries, although most of these are gone now.
We leave some fallen fruit on the ground and don`t clear up leaf
litter which will harbour insects. No cats, dogs, or children either.
Last Spring we had lots of birds, and I wonder if it was because a lot
of people stop putting food out when the weather gets milder, whereas
we continued to feed so there was much less competition..

It is interesting that you say that the feeder on a pole in the middle
of your garden is more popular; my mother-in-law has recently bought
a Gardman Feeding Station which we erected almost in the middle of her
small garden, with space all around. The very next day after it was
set up, birds started using it and have done so ever since. She even
had a green woodpecker on it the other day. I suppose I could give it
a try...

Kate