Fetch Birdwatchers
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166 watchers
Jun 2020
5:00pm, 17 Jun 2020
2,699 posts
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um
J2R - sunflower hearts also popular with nearly all birds. Peanuts - most have learned to attack them. Mixed seed - the biggest container, but also the quickest to go. Jays and starlings seem to have learned to just throw it all over the grass. Similarly fat balls - limited to one a day. |
Jun 2020
5:15pm, 17 Jun 2020
2,784 posts
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J2R
Goldfinches are actually spectacularly messy eaters, with about half the sunflower hearts falling to the ground. Fortunately we have been able to call on the services of a team of dedicated collared doves and woodpigeons to prevent accumulation of seeds and seed fragments on the ground.
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Jun 2020
5:43pm, 17 Jun 2020
6,047 posts
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Eynsham Red
Our sunflower feeder is positioned very near a Phormium plant. Consequently the center of the plant accumulates lots of food debris. The starlings have discovered this and help clear it out.
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Jun 2020
5:46pm, 17 Jun 2020
1,646 posts
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bonners
Get you J2R with your elite clearer uppers, nothing so spectacular in our garden, just a common flock of feral pigeons. Been sat in the garden this afternoon and suddenly all the local gulls started with their alarm calls. Was watching a buzzard way off in the distance, wondering why they were getting so agitated. Then watched another buzzard flying low over the houses. It looked a bit like a scramble scene in the old Battle of Britain films as waves of gulls went up to intercept it before it got too near to any youngsters. Fascinating to watch as always. |
Jun 2020
6:37pm, 17 Jun 2020
13,703 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
The Simon Barnes book is 83p on Kindle 
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Jun 2020
7:33pm, 17 Jun 2020
16,652 posts
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Rosehip
Thank you YP
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Jun 2020
9:22pm, 17 Jun 2020
43,294 posts
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Derby Tup
Did you you buy it YP?
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Jun 2020
9:31pm, 17 Jun 2020
2,785 posts
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J2R
bonners, :). We do get feral pigeons as well, in fact, and they're also partial to sunflower heart chunks. The collared doves have actually mastered the art of pecking them from the feeders as well, while fluttering their wings madly, something that the other pigeons/doves haven't cracked yet.
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Jun 2020
10:23pm, 17 Jun 2020
64,919 posts
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swittle
Two black swans have taken up residence on the boating lake at Crosby Marina. Smaller than their white neighbours, nevertheless, they are ruling the roost. liverpoolecho.co.uk |
Jun 2020
6:56am, 18 Jun 2020
1,541 posts
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Heinzster
Jay for me last night, strange that some of you see them so regularly and for me that is about my 5th sighting in the last 35 yeas
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