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Bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
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 Posted: Thu Feb 09, 12 8:35 pm Post subject: They're eating us out of house and home! |
 
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There was a cruelly cold wind blowing around our house today and we didn't have dozens of wild birds visiting our feeding stations, we had hundreds.
There were five different species of finches feeding at any one time. Unfortunately the batteries on the camera conked just as I was getting started but I did manage to capture these images before the lights went out. 
I had to fill the bird feeders up twice today but it was well worth the effort. It was just a shame about the damned camera. 
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Midland Spinner
Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: Under a green roof
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Lovely |
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Chickem
Joined: 27 Mar 2009
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Location: out in the Fields in sunny Devon
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Fantastic pictures  |
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Mithril
Joined: 22 Jul 2011
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 12 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Great pics  |
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frewen
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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Wonderful |
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T.G
Joined: 13 Sep 2009
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Location: Somewhere you're not
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 12 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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Golly, you have finches like we have starlings or towns have pigeons...
Lovely pictures |
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Tavascarow
Joined: 06 Aug 2006
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Location: South Cornwall
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 12 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Lovely pictures Bodger.
The answer is to always have a spare set of batteries charged up. |
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LynneA
Joined: 25 Oct 2006
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Location: London N21
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On Sunday we had a goldcrest and a pair of blackcaps feeding on the berries on the honeysuckle on the fence by the back door.
I normally cut that section of it back slightly so it doesn't drop leaves into the pond, but this year pruning has had to wait. Glad I left it. |
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Ty Gwyn
Joined: 22 Sep 2010
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Location: Lampeter
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Are they making a new Hitchcock field in North Wales? |
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Bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 12 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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We always do pretty well with birds in the garden but today was incredible. |
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Bodger
Joined: 23 May 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 12 10:49 am Post subject: |
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I managed to get some pictures this morning that the flat batteries stopped me from getting yesterday.
Goldfinches and Siskins quing up at the food bar.
A Great Tit.
As you can see from the pictures, I'm struggling to get the focus as I'd like when I'm zooming in. :cred: |
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 12 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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nice range
winter feed really helps birdies ,the local diners include our hooded cakecrows ,a semi tame young blackbird and it's surviving parent ,thrushes,alot of little brown jobbers ,pies ,pigies,fs and ts , |
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Liz in Ireland
Joined: 27 Jan 2009
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Lovely. I have feeders similarly positioned on the edge of woodland and get hundreds of finches too. I had to give up trying to do the bird survey because you were supposed to record the greatest number of a species seen at any one time per day....and I just couldn't distinguish and count quickly enough among the crowd of finches, sparrows, tits etc. Last week I noticed a solitary redpoll amongst them that I had never seen before. Well spose there might have been another........... |
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colour it green
Joined: 25 Jun 2007
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Location: Devon, uk
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| Posted: Fri Feb 10, 12 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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lovely - i particularly like the last picture |
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Bebo
Joined: 21 May 2007
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Location: East Sussex
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For the last week we've had dozens of red wings taking the crab apples off the tree in the front garden. They've pretty much wiped them all out now, but we've blagged a box of over-ripe apples from the neighbour and we'll be starting to put those out in the morning to see if they'll take them instead. |
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