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What's in my garden?? (1 Viewer)

Nekkid

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Hi folks,
I'm new on the forum so I thought I'd just post all the stuff I've seen in my garden. I recently moved from London to Kent and now live in the middle of nowhere (bliss!) My Mum bought me a couple of nut feeders and some seed and so far I've seen........

Blackbirds (hundreds)
Wasps (millions)
Great tit
Green finch
Gold finch (only once)
LS and GS woodpecker (I think. Def GS, the LS may have been a baby GS)
Collar doves (they're in love!!)
Blue tit
Wren
Starling
Squirrel (Oi! Get off my nuts!!!)
Tawny Owl (on a branch 8feet from the bedroom window)
An unidentified bird of prey
A few others I haven't identified yet.
 
Great Start !!

I get a buzz everytime something new comes into my garden to. Yesterday evening a Garden Warbler appeared....first on I have seen.
I am envious about your woodpeckers I have never seen one :h?:
 
That's a good start Nekkid. Sunflower hearts are very popular here - I have to refill the two 14 inch tube feeders every couple of days. If you offer these, your goldfinch might come back with some friends!
 
Elizabeth Bigg said:
That's a good start Nekkid. Sunflower hearts are very popular here - I have to refill the two 14 inch tube feeders every couple of days. If you offer these, your goldfinch might come back with some friends!
Elizabeth,
I have a seed feeder but nobody seems to use it. Mind you it's full of the normal bird seed. I have some specialist finch seed which I've been scattering on the grass, maybe I'll put that in the feeder.
The normal bird seed has sunflower seeds in which seem to go down a treat!
 
I've found that the sure-fire way to get the goldfinches back is to let any stray thistles grow to maturity. The goldfinches will love you when the seeds appear though your neighbours may think differently.
 
Dawsy said:
I've found that the sure-fire way to get the goldfinches back is to let any stray thistles grow to maturity. The goldfinches will love you when the seeds appear though your neighbours may think differently.

Unfortunately when I grew teasels especially for the birds they were totally ignored.
 
"My" goldfinch really like the nyger (thistle) seed in a feeder. They visit pretty much every day, usually 2 or 4, but have seen up to 8 at one time.
A few new birds for me this year were the common yellowthroat, and a cedar waxwing.
Good luck!
 
So cool to have woodpeckers in your garden mate :)

i trying desparately to get goldfinches to overcome their shyness. they are tending to stay at the back of my garden in the safety of the conifers. i think i need to get me hand on some of that nyger seed!
 
vanell said:
So cool to have woodpeckers in your garden mate :)

i trying desparately to get goldfinches to overcome their shyness. they are tending to stay at the back of my garden in the safety of the conifers. i think i need to get me hand on some of that nyger seed!

I first enticed goldfinches with niger seed (then the siskins took over in the winter), but at the moment they are not touching the niger, but gobbling sunflower hearts, as I mentioned earlier.
 
Hi Nekkid. Nice list of birds for starters there. I'm sure you'll see many more. It's quite something to have seen a Tawny Owl. I'd say, though, that if you think your Lesser Spotted Woodpecker was a juvenile Great Spotted then that's probably what it was - Lesser Spots are hardly bigger than sparrows. I'm sure winter will bring you lots more things.
 
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