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Bird and wildlife watching
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Jane | Report | 3 Nov 2018 16:51 |
I hope all is quiet around you tonight for Cas .I am hoping for the same here but just know it is going to be very noisy especially if the wind continues to blow our way :-S |
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AnninGlos | Report | 3 Nov 2018 15:44 |
Fingers crossed for her Liz. |
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Bunnyboo | Report | 3 Nov 2018 15:29 |
After our early morning rush, the birds here have been absent all day! The wind is really getting up now and it looks very threatening! Cas has had a really good walk today so hopefully she'll be too tired to notice any fireworks that might go off this evening! |
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AnninGlos | Report | 3 Nov 2018 11:44 |
We have not had any birds either Gill, but if you look around there are lots of plants with berries on for them to feed on, and plants like sunflowers that have gone to seed. Explain to Sandra that they are filling up with food in the hedges and when that runs out they will be back. |
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Gillx | Report | 3 Nov 2018 11:03 |
I think our bird food is going to last forever at this rate Liz, we've seen no birds at all using the feeder for the last few days. I'm hoping when the weather goes colder they'll start using it. The only visitor we've had to the feeder today is the squirrel, she climbed up our screening like a ladder and jumped onto the top of the feeder. I have put Vaseline on the top so she soon jumped back off again as she felt herself slipping, I haven't seen her since then. |
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Bunnyboo | Report | 3 Nov 2018 09:34 |
We put up another bird table yesterday a bit further away from the other feeders and table so that we can watch from our sitting room. So far no takers, but its early days! We mostly watch the birds while we have breakfast (about 8pm) and the activity this morning was, very active!!! OH is soaking yet more meal worms!! but they give us so much pleasure so well worth all the seeds, nuts and meal worms we are getting through!! |
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AnninGlos | Report | 2 Nov 2018 22:05 |
Jane I would have liked to have seen that pigeon, it sounds so funny. |
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Gillx | Report | 2 Nov 2018 15:40 |
How funny Jane, I told Sandra and she laughed. Pleased to hear the Pheasants survived and didn't get run over. Good job you weren't the driver if you shut your eyes and hoped for the best LOL. Yes, you're probably right and the squirrels will have another go at some point on the feeder. I did see one this morning jumping around the lawn she didn't seem to notice the feeder, but how long that'll last for who knows. |
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Jane | Report | 1 Nov 2018 17:52 |
Yucky day today . Just wet and miserable. But I did have a laugh earlier . There was a Wood Pigeon in the Bird Bath ,actually lying down in it,and it had one wing held up letting the rain in and then it turned around and lifted the other wing. It was just like it was washing its armpits :-D :-D :-D |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 1 Nov 2018 16:58 |
Very wet again today. None of the feed has gone down so I think the birds are all sheltering from the horrid weather, though I did laugh at a pigeon walking round the ground feeder trying to work out how to get at the mealworms. After a while he gave up. |
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Jane | Report | 31 Oct 2018 18:18 |
It feels good doesn't it Ann when the loft has a good clear out. We did ours a couple of years ago . Mind you things do start to creep back up there :-S. But at last we know exactly what is there now :-D |
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AnninGlos | Report | 31 Oct 2018 13:12 |
Well we have made nother trip to the tip we had another load of those boxes that you keep when you buy things in case you want to return them!!. The big Tesco is on our way home (one of them, we have two) so we called in to their cafe for lattes and a shared sausage bap which was very welcome after all that lugging around. I think it must be that everyone is having a pre- Christmas clear out as it was very busy at the tip. We have just been up in the loft and it is looking a lot better up there. found three more lots of curtains, two of which are probably no use, a load of toys which do come in useful for the Greats and a few more Christmas bits which can migrate downstairs now I have cleared another cupboard down here. So feeling very virtuous now. Seeing that much of the stuff that was buried at the back of the loft has been up there 26 years, I think it can safely be disposed of without us missing it. One mystery, there is some sort of exercise machine up there which neither of us remember having/using, got to find a home for that. :-D |
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Bunnyboo | Report | 31 Oct 2018 09:41 |
Very cold here this morning with a hard frost! The birds have been very busy on our table and seed/nut hangers! We have two robins in the garden now, OH thinks one of them is living in the hedge half way up our paddock, but they were both diving about this morning, they do love those meal worms!! The sun is right out now promising a lovely day! Better make the most of it as the forecast is not good!! OH is going to clear up round the back of the greenhouse where he has been tidying up the side of the hedge and get the trimmings onto the bonfire (another good job done!) then we're off out for the day! |
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Jane | Report | 30 Oct 2018 20:30 |
Gill, Sandra is going to really enjoy her new Bird Feeder. I bet the Squirrel will have another go .They are such determined creatures. I am sure the bit of fur was nothing to worry about. |
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Gillx | Report | 30 Oct 2018 16:39 |
When I put the feeder in place I was only thinking of where was the best place for Sandra to see it properly, she has problems with her eyes and can't see properly right down the garden, she was having problems seeing the little birds down there, but when I saw the birds going to the plants then back to the feeder I realised it was the best place all around Ann. She watched them all this afternoon, she was watching her TV and said she heard the birds first, then sat and watched them until they'd finished eating. I'm really pleased we bought it now. The pigeon went down the bottom of the garden to the bird table and ate the nuts off there, so did the squirrel, so I'm pleased everyone is getting something. :-) Only OH saw the squirrel slip off the feeder and with there being a bit of fur on there I doubt he'll be back, if he does come back I'm sure Sandra will find it amusing watching him slip off again, I just hope he doesn't hurt himself again though. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 30 Oct 2018 16:36 |
You have obviously got your feeders in the right place Gill. I am very jealous of your birds. They have found you very quickly. Five years in this house and we still get mainly sparrows or starlings, a few blackbirds and the occasional robin or bluetits. |
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AnninGlos | Report | 30 Oct 2018 13:13 |
It sounds like you have definitely got that positioned right Gill. The blue and great tits usually take a seed and retreat to a bush or tree branch to eat it and the small birds like to shelter in trees and shrubs/bushes as well.Poor squirrel but funny to watch I expect. |
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Gillx | Report | 30 Oct 2018 12:10 |
Sandra is beside herself at the moment, the bird feeder has had so many little birds on there, she is so excited and settled herself down on the sofa watching them. We've had Great, Blue and Coal Tits and of course the Robins and I think a Wren, although I'm not very good at identifying the small brown birds as they all look so similar. |
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Gillx | Report | 28 Oct 2018 20:45 |
Pity you haven't got a video camera with a night light on it Vera, you could point it at the ground feeder and then you'd know who was eating the bird food. Yes Sandra has always been called Sandra, or if I call her for something I sometimes just say San. Her dad sometimes calls her junior, I can't remember where that nickname came from as she's had it since she was little, but mainly she is called Sandra. She was named after my sister who is known as Sandy, although our mum still calls her Sandra, much to her annoyance. |
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SuffolkVera | Report | 28 Oct 2018 11:12 |
Ann’s suggestion of a runner is a good one if Sandra has a suitable chest or dressing table surface or perhaps she could even make one of those decorative strips of material that hotels put across the foot end of their beds. |