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13 Jun
10:02am, 13 Jun 2024
5,225 posts
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paulcook
Mine's not really a garden. But not seen or heard many songbirds out of the back of mine recently.
Mainly sparrows, starlings, magpies and jackdaws. In fact saw what seemed one of the biggest jackdaws I've ever seen this morning.
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13 Jun
10:03am, 13 Jun 2024
8,559 posts
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um
Goldfinch, robins, blackbirds and doves all use the feeders here.
Jackdaws and Rooks have learnt to just fly at them, bash them, then eat what falls out.
Pigeons seem the only birds not to have worked the feeders out.
One squirrel has been busy stealing peanuts and burying them in the lawn.
Another squirrel (I assume) has been sniffing around, digging them up and eating them.
Last night, 2 squirrels vs 1 small rat having a pat on the lawn. I think the rat won by being more aggressive!
(time to prime the trap and put some poison down if the rats are back)
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13 Jun
10:08am, 13 Jun 2024
15,666 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
Sparrow fledglings this morning  Plus a goldfinch sitting on the telephone wire outside my (upstairs) study window - we don't usually see them that often.
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13 Jun
10:14am, 13 Jun 2024
4,703 posts
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Curly45
We've got loads of goldfinches at the moment, but they do tend to disappear for a few weeks just before the young uns ledge.
Run out of meal worms much yo the sparrows disgust 😂
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13 Jun
4:28pm, 13 Jun 2024
10,354 posts
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Northern Exile
Loads of goldfinches here too, a significant amount more than last year. We've also seen a massive increase in the amount of pied wagtails, I think that must be down to us opening up the garden to the rear and increasing the amount of open space.
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13 Jun
5:00pm, 13 Jun 2024
5,318 posts
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J2R
Of course, just after my earlier post, 2 goldfinches turned up at the feeder. But I haven't seen any others today. Or, curiously, adult tits - it's all youngsters.
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13 Jun
10:06pm, 13 Jun 2024
21,251 posts
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flanker
3 barn owls on the drive back from the Otley 10 last night as we passed through DT-land.
And I stopped and ate my lunch today with curlews buzzing overhead from the field next to the road. I could have almost stroked them.
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13 Jun
10:13pm, 13 Jun 2024
32,263 posts
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Rosehip
two adults and four or five young starling on the feeders today - 2nd brood? not the usual chaos of previous years but I heard them before I saw them. Good to have them back
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14 Jun
8:31am, 14 Jun 2024
42,024 posts
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Ness
Yesterday afternoon I saw two adult Goldfinches with three fledglings in my garden. The fledglings sat on the garden fence while the adults took stuff from my bird feeder to feed to them. It was so lovely to watch them flying across to their babies and seeing the fledglings response to the adults approaching.
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14 Jun
9:04am, 14 Jun 2024
3,151 posts
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RunningRonnie
They were cutting the grass and taking it away in the massive field beside my house yesterday. Resulted in about 5 or 6 buzzards flying very low around.
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