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The Birds - I was Wrong
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? Jake |
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The Birds - I was Wrong
"Jake" wrote in message ... 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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The Birds - I was Wrong
"Jake" wrote in message ... 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? Jake Notwithstanding the "usual" bird table visitors" we've seen our first Black Cap - a bti rare for us. Bill |
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Quite a busy morning at the bird feeders, but only ordinary stuff in my one-hour submission. The jackdaw at the feeder was a bit of a surprise though. The really annoying thing is that if I'd waited till the following day to do it, I would have had a red kite on the list.
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