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Ermmm Jane...l already have that photo, will check its on the blog:)

jude x

Hello Ann, Jane & Lesley:)
Thanks Jane, nice to be back too:)

Our squirrels are about most of the year. We have walnuts in the garden at bottom of ours, the tree has a preservation order on it:))
Wonder where your earless squirrel has gone?

We have rats that our neighbour takes pot shots at, not so many at the moment fortunately All the time we feed the birds though they will be back:(

Off to look at your email:)

jude ;-) :-P

iHi Lesley.
Where do the Squirrels go???.We don't have Walnuts ,but Hazelnuts and I know the squirrels always get to them first lol
I hate the thought of OH shooting the rabbits but as he says Needs must :-S :-S

Hello Jane our squirrels always disappear this time of year but soon return when the walnuts are ready, and like you we have rabbits digging up and eating anything. :-|

All my squirrels ,including the Earless one have vanished :-S.I haven't seen them for weeks now.I wonder where they have gone?Now replaced with an explosion of rabbits :-S :-S :-S.Munching their way through the plants.OH has his gun at the ready.I hate it!! :-| :-|

Good to have you back again Jude. :-D :-D
I don't hang the fatballs now.Just the big coconuts.The birds love them.Will send you a pic Jude.

Apparently it was 20 f/balls in a week,slap my wrists...lol

Woody is on the new ones already and sparrows etc on the new nut feeder. That means the squirrels can have the other n/f to them selves if they wish..lol

jude

As far as I can make out it is only the pigeons eating the seed here. Fat balls don't go at all. :-S

Good afternoon everyone:)

l have been having emails from a man in Radnorshire, he rings birds. He was given my address via the Bird sighting thingie that l do, l sent details of Shauns Owls. Must find out more from Shaun (when he's home) as to where the birds are.

Vic has just boght 2 LARGE TUBS OF FAT BALLS and another nut feeder. The birds are going mad here. 2 dz f/balls gone in about 2 weeks, so theis lot won't last long. They've never eaten this amount before...ooo err.
The Spotted woodpecker eats more f/balls at the moment not allowing the others near them.

Ok must go have to meet sister.

Take care
jude

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You are lucky Island. I have never visited a heronry.

We see quite a number adorning the trees at our local patch along with cormorants. They look so incongruous. The trees suffer badly from the mass droppings.
We also have some little egrets at the same place (another heron)

Only once have I seen 2 Herons flying together.It was quite a sight.Shame I didn't have the camera :-|

But Ann, herons are seen in pairs at heronries.
They hunt alone but will roost colonially.

As I take my hearing aids out at night Jane, I don't hear much either. So I am thankful for small mercies. Magpies make an awful racket. :-)

Ann I think the most activity we have here is just after 4am .I think it the Magpies that start off now.Not quite as pleasant as the usual bird song :-S.In fact it is a flipping nuisance .I hate to say that ,but it is so raucous and not good on the ears at that time of the morning.OH never hears it.(typical man ) lol.They must roost somewhere very close to our bedroom :-S :-S

Not much bird activity at all in the garden except Mr and Mrs Blackbird keep wooshing into a bush in our garden, surely they are not nesting again, I know they do nest more than one but surely not in July.

Susan welcome to the bird thread, always good to see new people on here. And thatw as a good question (thanks for the answers Jude and whoever else answered.) You are right though Susan, you don't ever see Herons in pairs, only singly.

Just giving us a BIG nudge.We are disappearing down the pages :-S :-S
Not much going on bird wise really in the garden but still plenty of activity on the coconut.Often a queue for it lol.The tits row up along the branch taking it turns to feed .
Come on Jude do come back.We need you here !

Susan, now you're exaggerating ;-) . The term 'twitcher' is often used in a derisery manner to belittle bird watching. I didn't think you were using it in that way, I was just making a general comment, sorry if I didn't come across that way :-D

Our young swifts left the nest yesterday. This morning they were practicing approaches to the nest.