Old Speckled Hen Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 This bird comes everyday to feed on the coconut but the chooks try to chase it away!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 Lovely! We often get woodpeckers in our garden too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 My little Robin is back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tessa the Duchess Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 My little Robin is back. Aaaw mine too Today in the garden there were two squirrels both hanging upside down feeding from the bird peanut feeders, little devils Tessa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 yes ours came back a while back too, I love Robins. We can see Squirrels nearly everyday if you stay looking enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkshire Pudding Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 My little Robin is back. Mine put in its first appearance of the year today - it was brass monkeys outside and the garden was full of hungry birds. So far I have seen 1 robin 2 blue tits 2 goldfinches 2 blackbirds 6 house sparrows 3 dunnocks 2 wood pigeons 2 collared doves 2 magpies 2 chickens I love feeding the birds - gives me another excuse not to do housework, apart from the forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted October 29, 2008 Share Posted October 29, 2008 I found a woodpecker in a hole in a tree trunk but sadly it was dead. It had managed to get into the tree chasing something tasty no doubt but couldn't reverse back out again. Poor thing, it would have been a slow end too. Shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted October 29, 2008 Author Share Posted October 29, 2008 I've seen five robins here all feeding together. They must be this year's babies I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 about ten pheasasnts as well as flocks of blue tits around the seeds; robins trying to nick the hens' food; a nut hatch; two fat woodpigeons; sparrows a woodpecker and lots of chaffinches. Oh, and mum chucked a jug of water at the squirrels emptying the feeder! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 I saw 5 magpies and 2 squirrels in the same tree this afternoon . We also have a partly white sparrow who has come back this year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 A muntjac so far and the sun is shining !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 I am soooooo of you all. I only get my chickens and cats in my garden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Green woodpecker stabbing my lawn to death as I type !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 We had the window cleaner - the girls were NOT impressed! And the robin keeps pinching their breakfast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 We get the woodpecker only in the winter and my friend has had one already up here. The birds we feed all year long so you can imagine my food bill for them and I buy 25kg peanut sacks like they were going out of fashion! I also buy the fat squares and feed them from now and the blackbirds love them as do the robins - we have robins all year round and they nest in the garden. Blue tits, dunnocks, siskins, chaffinches, great tits, coal tits, tree creepers, goldfinches and blackies and the robins to name a few - we also had starlings last year but I chased them away. We get the wee mice running up the trees to pinch the nuts!. The girls also like to get a look in and rummage under the trees all afternoon and chase the birds from the ground for the peanuts pieces which fall - its their treat!. They are happier to-day as they are able to free range without getting soaked with hail and snow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omletina Kyckling Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 Robins don't usually go anywhere, they just lose their red colouring and don't sing in summer so they're around but not obvious.....I had a couple of robins in the garden until Ludwig despatched one....I know it's in their nature to catch birds but it's difficult to look grateful when they bring you a robin or wren, or a blue tit....hmmf.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken Licken Posted October 31, 2008 Share Posted October 31, 2008 3 greedy chickens tucking into freshly dug bugs and worms on the allotment. Blackbirds, Robin and lots of house sparrows all enjoying the berries on the cotoneaster (sp??) and blue tits on the honeysuckl. I love watching them out of the kitchen window - another good reason to avoid the ironing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackrocksrock Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 3 greedy chickens tucking into freshly dug bugs and worms on the allotment. Blackbirds, Robin and lots of house sparrows all enjoying the berries on the cotoneaster (sp??) and blue tits on the honeysuckl. I love watching them out of the kitchen window - another good reason to avoid the ironing Why not do the ironing while watching them! It makes the time fly past quickly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 Today we had a few. Dunnocks (dodging the girls), a robin, a wren, blackbirds (including Sausage and BB in the front garden), 2 magpies, great tits and lots of long tailed tits - you hear them before you see them, all dodging around the hawthorn trees. A hedgehog left his calling card overnight too. I don't count the pigeons, but since the girls came the numbers have dropped dramatically I am glad to say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlo Posted November 2, 2008 Share Posted November 2, 2008 I startled a beautiful Jay when I stepped out onto the patio today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted November 3, 2008 Author Share Posted November 3, 2008 Fed the birds this morning and so far I have seen; Robins,House Sparrows, a Dunnock, a Nuthatch, Great Tits, Blue Tits, Long tailed Tits, Collared Doves, Wood Pigeons, a Goldfinch, a Wren, Jackdaws, Rooks ...we have a Rookery next door, Crows, Magpies, Greenfinches, Blackbirds, and after a whole summer's absence, our green Pheasant has come into the garden. He is totally iridescent green. Had to look him up in my bird book. It seems that it is a colour variant though one I hadn't seen till I moved here.He walks about with the hens and they share the grain spilt from the bird table with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 and after a whole summer's absence, our green Pheasant has come into the garden. He is totally iridescent green. Had to look him up in my bird book. It seems that it is a colour variant though one I hadn't seen till I moved here.He walks about with the hens and they share the grain spilt from the bird table with him. Fantastic, that is sooo Do you have any pics of him with your girls? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I can see a man raking leaves in my garden !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paola Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 I can see a man raking leaves in my garden !! Is he cute? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clootie Posted November 3, 2008 Share Posted November 3, 2008 Well, he has a glass eye........ does that count? Seriously, he does! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
