RE: MY FIRST VISITOR - 2

#16 by astoness , Tue Mar 25, 2014 8:31 pm

very nice SB..after the woodie left the robin and blue tits arrived...

#17 by Voltman , Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:20 am

Quote: astoness wrote in post #14
Quote: astoness wrote in post #11
jo like SB said put a bird feeder up that will attract only the small birds..

forget that jo..ive just seen a wood pigeon hanging from me feeder...so what do i know

We had a Wood Pigeon who would land very heavily on the top of the feeder, which was hanging from the washing line, then he would fall to the ground to collect whatever he had managed to shake out of the feeder.
I think he learnt this trick from a squirrel.

#18 by Slow Jo , Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:22 pm

Last summer we had a magpie that got bread, dropped it in the birdbath for a few seconds then took it out and flew off, I think it was feeding young so they made it soft for them, they are not dumb animals.

#19 by astoness , Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:04 pm

sandwell is not far from me..didnt even know we have wild parrots...

http://www.suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk...fieldobserver#6

#20 by Slow Jo , Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:25 pm

Yesterday got a stick on your window bird feeder ,got it home forgot to get any seed.

#21 by Sheldonboy , Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:31 pm

Don't bother Jo. I bought some bird seed once. I scattered it around the garden and not one bird came up.

#22 by Slow Jo , Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:39 pm

Did you water it enough.

#23 by Sheldonboy , Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:41 pm

Well the box said it was for Garden birds. I just took it that I was no good at Gardening.

#24 by Slow Jo , Sat Mar 29, 2014 8:44 pm

Sounds a bit like me throw it on and hope for the best.

#25 by astoness , Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:12 pm

just look what the squirrel has done now...bitten though me bird feeder and all the fat balls ended up on the floor going to get a metal one..

#26 by Slow Jo , Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:22 pm

We use to have a squirrel last year but someone run him over,were not far from a busy road, this one use to pinch small fat balls,take them somewhere ,never found them ,so he hid them well.

#27 by astoness , Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:28 pm

jo they are very clever..i wouldnt mind but i put nuts out for the squirrels...

#28 by Slow Jo , Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:32 pm

While having coffee, saw 3 sparrow hawks circling really high up, last year one had a baby blackbird, by the time I got out it was too late he flew off holding it.

#29 by astoness , Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:38 pm

Quote: Slow Jo wrote in post #28
While having coffee,saw 3 sparrow hawks circling really high up,last year one had a baby blackbird ,buy the time I got out it was to late he flew of holding it.

its all nature isnt it jo...

#30 by Slow Jo , Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:41 pm

Yes lyn I agree but nature can be cruel at times.

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