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Recent content by Zukn

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    Seed Storage

    I'm thinking, if a large volume of seed a lockable garbage bin or a compost bin, even an old second hand piece of furniture with some outdoor varnish applied. Small volume a picnic hamper or ice box.
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    what birds/wildlife is common in your garden?

    Lovely collection Adrian, I can rustle up, jackdaws,wood pigeons, long tailed,blue, great and coal tits, green, gold and chaff finches, house sparrows, starlings and robins as always constant, gsw, bullfinches,dunnocks,wrens, siskins, bramblings, gulls (Don't ask what sort, they grab and...
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    Have I got a chance to get "other birds" feeding in my garden?

    If I see a species of bird vist once I put up a feeder that species is inclined to eat, I had very few finches visiting a few years ago, but after I saw a green finch I put up some sunflower hearts, now I have at least 8 nearly all the time, often more queing to get on the feeders, then I saw a...
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    spicey suet

    Scientificaly it should work, all mammals, as far as I know, possess capsaicin receptors, but no birds do, so unless you knave a squirrel or racoon who would be fond of a vindaloo they should be deterrred, and the birds unaffected.
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    Bird like a blackbird but not a blackbird!?

    These non black blackbirds can throw up some wonderful pumage patterns, and are so common we should probably rename the species the Nearly Always Black Bird, (Except for females, juveniles and leucistic mutants). for political correctness.
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    New Member

    Welcome, I hope you find the site and community friendly and useful.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    The usual lot for me this week, green,gold and chaf finches, blue,coal and great tits, house sparrows, robins, and jackdaws,starlings,flyover by crows, wood pigeon, collared dove and gulls. Can't complain about the numbers plenty of all of the above. I wandered about 2 mins from my home and had...
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    Your Favourite Garden Bird :)

    Gotta be the long tailed tits for me, so cute, and they never bicker.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    I have to sadly, report my first fatality, a dead goldfinch 2 feet from my frosted glass curtain screened back door. There was a tell tell splatter of blood on the door. and the the feeding station is 20 feet from the door. I can't imagine why a bird would have flown into it. On a positive note...
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    Man V Squirrel, this time I'll win!

    THose are great Nuthouse. Did you design them yourself? I'm not suprised you can sell them at flea markets , the feeding positions are great for photos. And they look as cute as heck.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Nice one Captain Carrot, I'm kicking myself apparently the largest flock of waxwings in mid wales was about 300 metres from my house. Across the road and eating the colleges berries. For 2 days, I heard about that the day after they'd gone. If' it would have been on a day off I'd have walked...
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    Birdie, where are thou??

    I live on the outskirts of a semi-rural town and the route I take when walking into town very much effects the quantity and number of species I see in a walk of the same distance. If I walk the straight fastest route it's down a mainroad and I see starlings, house sparrows, some gulls, crows and...
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    Hawk Attack!

    I'd love to see some birds of prey in action. I wouldn't mind at all about the birds they took, it's part of nature. I see buzzards quite often above the feilds near here and saw a sparrowhawk by the train station as I was walking to work the other day, I hear owls frequently in the summer...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Day off work, so far off to a great start. The regulars, house sparrows, starlings, 2 wood pigeons, chaffinches, green finches, gold finches, ltt, blue, great and coal tits a robin and a nuthatch. No dunnocks, wrens or GSW yet but 2 NEW garden birds for me a female brambling and a siskin, yay!
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