Fetch Birdwatchers
165 watchers
Apr 2022
9:12am, 7 Apr 2022
88,004 posts
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Hanneke
Two male blackbirds fighting: it was vicious!!!
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Apr 2022
11:01am, 7 Apr 2022
5,954 posts
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um
Any ideas why a nuthatch would be collecting very small pebbles/ bits of stone? Small enough for 3 in it’s beak at a time? |
Apr 2022
12:28pm, 8 Apr 2022
3,211 posts
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flyingfinn
amp.theguardian.com Article from The Guardian on the bird count results. The observations on Greenfinches and Jay's very much reflect my personal experience over the last year. In the 23 years I've lived here Greenfinches have only ever been occasional visitors. Then last summer a pair started appearing regularly but not daily. For the last month or so I've had at least 3 coming multiple times a day (I suspect there might be two pairs but I've only simultaneously seen 2m and 1f). Also over the last year I've had far more Jay sightings in my locality including one visiting my feeders occasionally in mid-winter, the first time I've ever seen that. |
Apr 2022
12:50pm, 8 Apr 2022
964 posts
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paulcook
I find the results about jays interesting. It's something I've found quite common right from being a kid, but my mum lived on the back of a large wooded area, so it's a habitat that's probably good for them. There's a few places I see them regularly now but thinking about it they're probably all woodland again. I wonder if they're a bird that aren't going to crop up in the likes of a garden birdcount because of the nature of the habitat. I remember reading something last year that the best growers of new woodland are jays and squirrels, with a good help from the likes of brambles, blackberry brushes to provide protection for saplings. |
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Apr 2022
12:55pm, 8 Apr 2022
88,109 posts
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Hanneke
Yes re the latter: I purposefully left brambles on one long side of the food forest. To allow the ash, hazel, alder, wild cherry to self seed and Blackthorn... I am now removing the brambles, as they have done their job: I have trees! And replace them with food and medicinal shrubs and perennials. It has done wonders for bio-diversity, especially birds and butterflies. I only have a small garden too! |
Apr 2022
12:56pm, 8 Apr 2022
111 posts
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forever
I see jays regularly but I am surrounded by woodland.
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Apr 2022
1:07pm, 8 Apr 2022
9,648 posts
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sallykate
I see loads of jays here in zone 2 London. Gardens are quite big with mature trees in this neighbourhood. No starlings or sparrows in our garden but plenty in the local park. I used to get long-tailed tits on the feeder; I've lapsed with the feeding but will start again. |
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Apr 2022
1:14pm, 8 Apr 2022
3,212 posts
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flyingfinn
amp.theguardian.com Article from The Guardian on the bird count results. The observations on Greenfinches and Jay's very much reflect my personal experience over the last year. In the 23 years I've lived here Greenfinches have only ever been occasional visitors. Then last summer a pair started appearing regularly but not daily. For The Greenfinches are clearly on Fetch. Less than an hour after I wrote the above I looked out of the window to see 1m and 2f that were then joined by a 2nd male. So definitely two pairs coming to the feeders. |
Apr 2022
1:20pm, 8 Apr 2022
24,782 posts
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Rosehip
 I’ve had a pair of greefinch visiting the feeders over the last few weeks, but hadn’t seen one in the garden for ages before then. Beautiful male chaffinch in the plum tree this morning, another bird that isn’t as common here as it used to be. Must have got a bit too close to a lapwing nest this morning, some very cross peewitting above my head |
Apr 2022
6:53pm, 8 Apr 2022
20,500 posts
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flanker
Definitely seen a lot more of both species in the last coupe of years. Before that greenfinches used to quite a rarity.
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