Posted: Thu Feb 09, 12 8:35 pm Post subject: They're eating us out of house and home!
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 Posts: 2931 Location: Under a green roof
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 12 8:38 pm Post subject:
Lovely
Chickem
Joined: 27 Mar 2009 Posts: 3958 Location: Sunny Devon
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 ,
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...........
Nicky cigreen
Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 9702 Location: Devon, uk
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 12 7:28 pm Post subject:
lovely - i particularly like the last picture
Bebo
Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 12590 Location: East Sussex
Posted: Fri Feb 10, 12 10:27 pm Post subject:
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.