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Mar 2024
11:05am, 25 Mar 2024
13,219 posts
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D2
I have a pair of Jays visiting my garden feeders this year, a first for me.
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Mar 2024
12:13pm, 25 Mar 2024
6,225 posts
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TheScribbler
I’m trying not to be too discouraged that after transforming our back garden into something much more wildlife friendly than the patches of grass and paving we had previously, most of the birds we used to see have vanished!
We left the bird feeders full before we went away and there’s still food in them this morning. Last year, the mob of sparrows could typically clean them out in just a couple of days.
Hopefully as the plants grow, we’ll get more variety of visitors
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Mar 2024
12:21pm, 25 Mar 2024
4,505 posts
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paulcook
A few years ago behind my house was a very overgrown brownfield site, nature had taken back over. I had foxes making a home about 2 feet (albeit 2 fences) behind my window. But mainly there were so many birds in what was essentially an urban and previous (industrial?) site. But there were enough different types of plants, and one or two locals had also hung up feeders amongst the bushes, to support decent populations of an array of birds.
Then they built houses, and literally all the birds vanished. For a good few years.
But slowly there have been birds return. And that's without much to attract them other than what people have in their gardens and a small bit of rough ground on the housing site.
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Mar 2024
3:02pm, 25 Mar 2024
2,954 posts
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Surelynot
Interesting to read about sightings of siskins. We’re in Perthshire for a break and I’ve never seen so many Siskin around the feeders as we are getting here.
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Mar 2024
6:10pm, 25 Mar 2024
23,576 posts
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Red Squirrel
I’m in Miltonduff and it’s siskin-tastic.
My uncle’s partner has family in the whisky distillery business and she told me one year they had a siskin-themed bottle, as the bird was so prolific in the area.
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Mar 2024
7:09pm, 25 Mar 2024
2,955 posts
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Surelynot
Disturbed some black grouse while out for a run up the hill at the back of the cottage we are in. A first for me.
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Mar 2024
7:35pm, 25 Mar 2024
5,125 posts
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J2R
Siskins are a bird I very much associate with north east Scotland. I only ever used to see them when visiting relatives on Deeside. I can't recall the first time I saw one in Norfolk - certainly decades after I saw them in Scotland.
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Mar 2024
7:03am, 26 Mar 2024
3,029 posts
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RunningRonnie
Park full of geese this morning. I thought they were all away.
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Mar 2024
2:05pm, 26 Mar 2024
3,033 posts
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RunningRonnie
Apologies for the blurry photo, but who is this?
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Mar 2024
2:05pm, 26 Mar 2024
3,034 posts
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RunningRonnie
Female siskin I think
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Bird song watch
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