jape
Well-known member
gday. i am uk born n bred, spent 30 yrs in oz now back for some stupid reason!
making the best of illness and mobility problems i spend much of my day by the back door watching the birds and it is my daily delight in a grey town with a small garden backing onto a grass park, mainly sycamores and some mixed hedging
i see birds i recognise from childhood come to a feeder pole i bought
i tend to put out seed mix, suet balls, suet mixes and mealworms
not as much interest from birds as i would have liked, they seem to prefer the white bread and scraps from next door and despite stripping the hawthorn dont seem very hungry as yet in the season
my visitors are: wood pigeon, blackbirds young and old, song thrush and occasional mistle thrush, very aggressive robins, sometimes magpie and jackdaw or crow.
the sparrows are smaller than ones i knew in town so what i call tree or hedge sparrows with a subset that have definitely longer tails and dark grey heads, not capped that come quietly in threes or fours
the tits so far are once a great tit, a bluetit here and there, one coal tit visits and three or four regular long tails. i have had one male chaffinch, one goldfinch and a flock of juveniles rarely. one bullfinch, odd visits in hedge but not table by greenfinches. wrens on ground not table. once or twice a bloody grey squirrel and hedgehogs scavenge nearby after dusk
i think thats it, most appear not as often as i remember from childhood. this could be regional as now in warrington but before in kent and wales.
it is only a pastime for me but i shall keep it up and learn from this forum, thank you.
making the best of illness and mobility problems i spend much of my day by the back door watching the birds and it is my daily delight in a grey town with a small garden backing onto a grass park, mainly sycamores and some mixed hedging
i see birds i recognise from childhood come to a feeder pole i bought
i tend to put out seed mix, suet balls, suet mixes and mealworms
not as much interest from birds as i would have liked, they seem to prefer the white bread and scraps from next door and despite stripping the hawthorn dont seem very hungry as yet in the season
my visitors are: wood pigeon, blackbirds young and old, song thrush and occasional mistle thrush, very aggressive robins, sometimes magpie and jackdaw or crow.
the sparrows are smaller than ones i knew in town so what i call tree or hedge sparrows with a subset that have definitely longer tails and dark grey heads, not capped that come quietly in threes or fours
the tits so far are once a great tit, a bluetit here and there, one coal tit visits and three or four regular long tails. i have had one male chaffinch, one goldfinch and a flock of juveniles rarely. one bullfinch, odd visits in hedge but not table by greenfinches. wrens on ground not table. once or twice a bloody grey squirrel and hedgehogs scavenge nearby after dusk
i think thats it, most appear not as often as i remember from childhood. this could be regional as now in warrington but before in kent and wales.
it is only a pastime for me but i shall keep it up and learn from this forum, thank you.
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