Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 9075 Location: South Wales
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 22 8:04 am Post subject:
Yes, they are! We get a gang of Azul Magpies sweeping through in the morning and early evening.
gz
Joined: 23 Jan 2009 Posts: 8616 Location: Ayrshire, Scotland
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 22 8:09 am Post subject:
Between magpies and gulls my brother's garden has very few small birds.
Just a couple of blackbirds declaring their territory and a couple of starlings.
He is near the edge of Yeovil
Shan
Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 9075 Location: South Wales
Posted: Fri Apr 22, 22 8:47 am Post subject:
I keep on chasing them off - makes me look like a mad woman.
3 adults, 2 of which have been chasing about for half an hour or so
i am not sure whether it is romance or territory rivalry, mrs hammi sammison kept out of it while sammi and the other one did benny hill style scampers around the yard
quite funny to watch even if it was deadly serious to them
mrs brack takes no nonsense from the townie pigeons
Did a flora survey in a small part of the woods yesterday. It had been coppiced a couple of years ago, so there is a lot of open ground, and covered in flowers. Haven't counted how many species we found, but it covered 2 sides of an A4 sheet of paper written in single list form. Saw orange tip, brimstone and peacock butterflies and heard a yaffle and wren.
Forgot to say we saw a hare as we were going into the woods a few evenings ago. Looked a bit odd as I couldn't see its ears, but it crouched down and saw the full outline in silhouette.
The beech trees in our plantation are now fairly well leafed at the bottom, but tops still bare, so quite a bit of light still. Next door wood is getting very dark as it is fully leafed. Yesterday there was a wren making a lot of itself. We had seen some bluetits building a nest in a piece of equipment in the yard, but no sign of them yesterday.
sgt.colon
Joined: 27 Jul 2009 Posts: 7380 Location: Just south of north.
Posted: Tue Apr 26, 22 7:41 am Post subject:
What is the rarest bird you have seen in your woodland MR?
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