Birds

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[mikkel]

On the concrete birdbath, you can just make out a bird, so if you enlarge the picture, you can see it is a now regular visitor to our back garden and a Coal Tit. Until we moved here back in the summer, I had never seen one. Now we get the usual common garden birds, plus Blue Tits, Collared Doves, Jackdaws, Greenfinches, Pheasants and this Coal Tit.

[Admin]

nice size garden mikkell i love birds only get common ones in my garden sparrows/blackbirds/magpies/robins and we have a lot of sparrow hawks here so we have had a few disasters outside.

[mikkel]

admin said:

nice size garden mikkell i love birds only get common ones in my garden sparrows/blackbirds/magpies/robins and we have a lot of sparrow hawks here so we have had a few disasters outside.

This is one-third of it. The front is the same size, but stoned over. Over the back fence, we have a small meadow and get rabbits out there that I am trying to coax with food, but definately not to harm in any way, even though the owner might want to. We also get the odd pheasant over there.

[Admin]

The only thing with rabbitts is if you do have any plants in the summer they will eat them as i had a couple of rabbits get in the back garden once and it was lovely to see them but they ate some of my herbs..fortunately they only visited a few times then cleared off..
I hate it when people shoot them sometimes here i can hear guns over the fields..i usually turn radio up..to drown the sound out.
And when we were in the raf they used to shoot birds/rabbitts who were round the runways didnt like that either..

[mikkel]

About 10 minutes ago, I popped out to our back garden and just in time to see much to my amazement, a Green Woodpecker flying off from it. Normally, I look out of the kitchen window first, but this time I went straight out and it flew from our bird-table. I never expected to see this beauty this late in the year.

Re dispersing rabbits from the runways, etc of RAF bases, there are other ways that are far more humane than just killing them off.

[deepthought]

Good shots of those birds. I like the garden, looks a little like my last one.

[mikkel]

I thought I was imagining things this morning, but wasn't, nor was I fast enough to grab my camera. I saw a Starling with the last inch or so of its tail and pure White, just as if he'd been dipped in a tin of paint.

[Admin]

Shame you didnt catch it but i too cant catch my garden birds they wont come close enough to house as we have bird haters either side one has bird scarers up and the other fires his air gun so i levae my bird food in a safe place unfortunately its well out of my camera range.

we had a albino blackbird in our garden year or so ago i did register it with the bird society we used to feed it seperate as the other birds didnt like it. Well it dissapeared as fast as it arrived.

[mikkel]

People who shoot birds, need shooting themselves. My Partner can't stand birds fluttering around her, like they used to in Trafalgar Square before KL banned it, but she would never hurt them. In fact we have a Cockatiel and Budgie indoors and speaks to them, changes/tops their food and water up, but don't like them out of their cages. The Cockatiel isn't finger tame, despite trying hard since getting him.

As for the albino Blackbird, I have heard of them before and they are said to be extremely rare.

[Admin]

The albino blackbird was lovely we used to drop his food elsewhere and we were quite sad when he didnt appear again as they say they dont last long in life span as predators will have them.

[kedigato]

Many years ago we had a blackbird with lots of white feathers in his tail. He'd hop up close to the kitchen window (it looks out on to part of the driveway) and peer up like he was asking for food. I was only too happy to go out to feed him and the others as they were quite tame. That is, it didn't bother them if you appeared at the window and watched them.

He (it was a male one) visited us for several years and then he was gone. However, there were a couple of other blackbirds with a few white feathers that came. Some had the white feathers in their tails, like our first one did, and others in their wings. Just the odd feather or two, not as many as our first white-tail had.

[mikkel]

This is not a brilliant picture, but literally seconds before this was taken, all these Crows, plus many more were on the wires.


When I got further along the road, there were several poles, as they are and right close to each one, were masses of Crows. I lost count how many poles, but I honestly feel each one must have had at least 30 birds sitting close to it.

Edited spelling error.

[forestivory]

I'm going to try to get some pictures of my robins up our field, i have a pair that come down everyday for some breakfast ( horse feed), then they rear babies, i've had them a few years now, watch this space lol