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Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Feb 2016
8:06pm, 16 Feb 2016
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Derby Tup
PO it was until recently a mild winter. Our previously popular feeders have been quiet this season
jacdaw
jacdaw
Feb 2016
9:30pm, 16 Feb 2016
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jacdaw
My kitchen window feeder has blue / coal / great tits, nuthatch, house sparrow, chaffinch, dunnock, robin and blackbirds (galore) daily, especially during the last few days (cold, hard frost and snow lying). And despite the cat hurling herself at the glass.

So in theory they do work! I fill it with mixed seed, extra hulled sunflower seed and suet pellets.

A few years ago I filled it every day with something called orlux (some sort of caged softbill food I think), and the blackbirds appeared to be feeding nothing but orlux to multiple broods of young. I could hardly keep up with them, and it cost a bloody fortune!
ferret67
ferret67
Feb 2016
1:01am, 17 Feb 2016
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I sometimes try to work out where (ish) people are by their birds! Have envy of moorland/Derbyshire/estuary birds - & their calls are beatiful.

Brief Somerset Levels trip later in week, hoping to to see starlings going to roost though I'm meant to be doing other (mundane) stuff.

Fluffy kestrel so close to house today, not hovering but dropping to long grass fron low branch & back. Had binoculars so great view, no grey at all, so for once I'm sure not a sparrow hawk. Fluffy because very cold I suppose?
Surelynot
Surelynot
Feb 2016
10:48am, 17 Feb 2016
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Surelynot
DT - I was in Bronte country at the weekend but didn't see much in the way of birds. A nice covering of powdery snow though and a couple of sparrow hawks.
Chrisity
Chrisity
Feb 2016
9:07am, 18 Feb 2016
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Chrisity
My ant supply seems to have survived the "winter"

Derby Tup
Derby Tup
Feb 2016
9:39am, 18 Feb 2016
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Derby Tup
Nice 'pecker
phal
phal
Feb 2016
12:17pm, 18 Feb 2016
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phal
:-)
KinkyS
KinkyS
Feb 2016
12:34pm, 18 Feb 2016
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KinkyS
Hello handsome :-)
ferret67
ferret67
Feb 2016
7:31pm, 18 Feb 2016
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ferret67
😀
pedro
pedro
Feb 2016
12:03am, 19 Feb 2016
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pedro
That's great :-)

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