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Aug 2021
11:47am, 13 Aug 2021
77,668 posts
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Hanneke
Natural bird food is the best and why I leave the Teasels that are on a takeover bid and leave all seedheads and dead plant material over winter. It looks fab through to December, then it becomes quite horrid, but it is a haven for wildlife so it stays... Until the "great cutback" in February.
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Aug 2021
11:59am, 13 Aug 2021
5,031 posts
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um
Thanks ar ... I'll assume, and pay close attention to the bit between Woodside Farm and Moses Dock, if that's where you mean. I've never walked that bit, normally go along and round The Salterns (posh) house and/or Eight Acre Pond. Although it's only when I looked at the map that I knew any of these names.
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Aug 2021
12:00pm, 13 Aug 2021
3,304 posts
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jacdaw
I have teasels too, currently still in flower. The big hit last winter with the goldfinches was a huge burdock, but there hasn't been any of that this year. Apparently burdock has been known to entangle feeding birds and kill them (thanks for that wiki, I only wanted to know if it was a biennial).
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Aug 2021
12:37pm, 13 Aug 2021
77,672 posts
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Hanneke
Uh oh! Didn't know that about Burdock! Although medicinal, I keep them out of the garden as too invasive!
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Aug 2021
12:55pm, 13 Aug 2021
1,841 posts
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Heinzster
Page number 1971. A very fine vintage, that one. Not that I'm biased š
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Aug 2021
4:55pm, 13 Aug 2021
22,102 posts
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Rosehip
There were still swifts here last evening, not expecting them to stay much longer
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Aug 2021
7:33pm, 13 Aug 2021
52,006 posts
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alpenrose
um, Moses Dock was where I saw it.
Goldfinches love my verbena bonariensis in February.
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Aug 2021
8:41am, 15 Aug 2021
12,181 posts
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D2
"my" nuthatch is very active round the bird table again, is it likely they have a second brood do you think?
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Aug 2021
4:44pm, 15 Aug 2021
122 posts
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Neil_E_There
Visited Barton Turns Marina today and marvelled at how long some birds Grebes? could stay underwater. Also some SandMartins? swooping over the water and then resting on the guttering of new builds.
Driving back saw several birds of prey, one at the side of the road on a rabbit and completely unfazed as the car passed it.
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Aug 2021
9:56pm, 15 Aug 2021
3,316 posts
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jacdaw
One swift over the house this evening and a spotted flycatcher feeding from my neighbour's roof ridge.
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