How can I steal my neighbour's song thrush? (1 Viewer)

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Luca's Ade

Active member

• Mar 10, 2005

• #1

Don't worry, not avian theft :-O

I put out loads of food, sunflower seeds, nuts, kitchen scraps and I get loads of birds in the garden. My neighbour puts out no food, they have half the garden covered in decking :C and a dog that lives out there for most of the day, consequently they get almost no birds in their garden except for a pair of song thrushes. Yet these song thrushes *never* travel the few metres to visit my bird paradise!!

How can I entice them in, do they have a favourite snack?

 

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helenol

Well-known member

• Mar 11, 2005

• #2

Hello Lucas Ade and welcome to Birdforum.net

do your neighbours have plenty of shrubs that provide cover for them? that could be the reason they are there.

Try putting out some sultanas/raisons for them, or even get some mealworms. Good luck :t:

Regards

 

Andrew Rowlands

Well-known member

• Mar 11, 2005

• #3

Song Thrushes tend to be quite 'shy' and are 'bullied' by eg. Blackbirds; perhaps you'd have more chance of getting them in your garden if you didn't feed the birds !

As it is, you're probably doing them a favour! Now they have some peace to feed in with the proximity of a flock nearby to warn of any dangers. Well done!

Cheers,

Andy.

 

Andrew Rowlands

Well-known member

• Mar 11, 2005

• #4

Sorry, Luca's Ade!

Welcome to Birdforum, on behalf of the Staff here!

I'm sure they'll turn up - when things are a little quieter - have they been singing yet?

Andy.

 

Richard W

Well-known member

• Mar 11, 2005

• #5

one of their favourite snacks is snails (maybe your nieghbours have lots under their decking )

you could get a lump of rock like York Stone and put it out of the way but somewhere visible to the birds, they love things like that to use as an anvil to smash snail shells on

 

Phil Carter

Well-known member

• Mar 11, 2005

• #6

You can have mine.Bloody noisy buggers!"Song"Thrush?"Shout"Thrush more like!
Phil

 

christineredgate

Winner of the Copeland Wildlife Photographer of th

• Mar 11, 2005

• #7

Yes sultanas work a treat.I have a Song thrush who visits several times a day,to take the sultanas and raisins.But he never visits when the blackbirds are around.He even uses the roof feeding tray.I also put the groundfeeding bird food in the trays,especially purchased for ground feeding birds.He is quite tame,and does not fly away when he sees me,but patiently waits on the wall,for a sultana top up,as do the Blackbirds.He is also partial to cheese.

 

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Keith Thomson

Member

• Mar 14, 2005

• #8

Cool, I will try leaving out some sultanas, raisins and cheese for the song thrushes ive seen around my garden. I have a suitably messy hedge that I think they have started to build a nest in.

 

Neil Grubb

Well-known member

• Mar 15, 2005

• #9

Last week I found two dead Song Thrushes on my steps at the back of my house - no sign of trauma, and not by a window (sometimes the local Sparrowhawk panics the other birds into flying into the windows). They were both on the same step, about half way down a long flight. There are a couple of cats in the neighbourhood but there were no marks on the birds to suggest cat trauma. But maybe cats kill cleanly; I don't know. Couldn't figure it out! I was upset because thrushes don't often come into my garden; why didn't they pick on the Blue Tits; I have plenty to spare!!

However, the next day there were two (live) Mistle Thrushes and two Song Thrushes in my garden, at different times, which cheered me up. Also, there seems to be an abundance of Blackbirds at the moment, many more than last year. Maybe this is going to be a good thrush year ?

 

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Luca's Ade

Active member

• Mar 15, 2005

• #10

Yes, I have plenty of blackbirds at the moment, an abundance of males actually. I think there are about 4 males and just two or three females.

 

Ranger James

Well-known member

• Mar 16, 2005

• #11

Isn't is it one of the ten commandments? "Thou shalt not covert thy neighour's thrush?"
Those were the days...

 

Jane Turner

Well-known member

• Mar 16, 2005

• #12

Neil Grubb said:

Last week I found two dead Song Thrushes on my steps at the back of my house - no sign of trauma, and not by a window (sometimes the local Sparrowhawk panics the other birds into flying into the windows). They were both on the same step, about half way down a long flight. There are a couple of cats in the neighbourhood but there were no marks on the birds to suggest cat trauma. But maybe cats kill cleanly; I don't know. Couldn't figure it out! I was upset because thrushes don't often come into my garden; why didn't they pick on the Blue Tits; I have plenty to spare!!

However, the next day there were two (live) Mistle Thrushes and two Song Thrushes in my garden, at different times, which cheered me up. Also, there seems to be an abundance of Blackbirds at the moment, many more than last year. Maybe this is going to be a good thrush year ?

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My near neighbours moggy seem's to specialise in killing Song Thrushes

 

CJW

Hit-and-run WUM

• Mar 16, 2005

• #13

You really don't want them singing outside your bedroom window at 4am every morning!