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  1. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Well that didn't take long. Soon as I threw the calci on the floor and replaced with mealworms the birds were straight in there helping themselves. It didn't even take a walk from the bird feeder to the house.
  2. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Day 3 and calci bugs still there untouched. Looks like I shall have to feed them to the squirrel if he will take them. Won't buy again.
  3. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Day 2 and the calci worms are still there. I thought I'd have a change from the very popular mealworms and try calci worms. Waste of money. I soaked them in hot water and put them out. No interest in them at all, even the bully robin gives me dirty looks. Message to one self...don't buy calci worms.
  4. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Does anybody else have a robin that absolutely unmistakably bullies them? I've got one such bully. Every time I appear in the conservatory to watch the birds feeding it flies out from nowhere and sits staring at me through the window. If I go outside it flies out from nowhere and lands on the...
  5. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Right on cue, do the finches friend cages work....yes they do. After watching the squirrel frantically try for 15 minutes to steal what isn't theirs and not get any I had to laugh until it found a way on to the nut feeder. I could use the cage I took down and put it on the nut feeder.
  6. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    After careful observation I've decided to go back to my original set up. The bull finches struggled with the 'caged' set up. There also seemed a drop in interest this could be because it's new and the birds getting used to the cages and changing their flight path for easier access. The tits had...
  7. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    right they have arrived. The finches friend anti squirrel cages. They are quite heavy and well made. The aren't cheap neither. After assembly I can't think why they have made them so heavy or big. I think finches friends may have missed a trick. There's no need for the top cage and could have...
  8. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Well the squirrels are undeterred, relentless more to the point. This morning I caught one trying to climb my feeding station but defeated by the torpedo. This didn't stop it. It climbed back down and disappeared out of view and I thought 'got ya ya little bugger' but no. Within 10 seconds of...
  9. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Bloody squirrels...they've finally busted my system. I noticed it a few weeks ago and wondered how they were bypassing my torpedo squirrel buster. Turns out they were using my squirrel buster feeder as a climbing frame. I've now ditched that for another finches friend that doesn't hang as low...
  10. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    The new bird bath arrives Tuesday earlier than expected. I might have to put it where it is to go but without water for a few weeks. I don't want to attract the magpies in case some are still nesting in the trees where it will be situated. When do gold finches and bullfinches finish nesting...
  11. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    6 robin babies running around today picking up the meal worms I scattered about for them. They are my favourites. The place has gone mental with all the young and my pocket is poorer for it. I do feel like a rich man watching all the young and haggered parents flitting about in dark and damp...
  12. The Robin

    Britain's most prolific egg collector, reoffends again.

    He should be locked up or strict enforceable curfew order every nesting season.
  13. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    A parakeet has to eat 🤣🤣
  14. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    This is how a parakeet uses a finches friend. 🤣🤣
  15. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    With the new visitors and reappearances of GSW, parakeet, goldcrest and redpoll it got me thinking about the no show of long tail tits this winter. It's the first time I've not noticed them unless they have been very sneaky. I have missed them.
  16. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Parakeet again today and a redpoll, the first for a few years. A gold crest in the conifer bushes too.
  17. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    it's back again.
  18. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Wow, today I've had a visit by a parakeet, stealing sunflower hearts from my feeders🤣🤣
  19. The Robin

    Any point putting out niger seed?

    Once I've done all my niger seed I'm retiring my niger feeder. It took ages for the first one to use it and now they just pull all the seed through the small holes and leave huge piles uneaten on the plastic plate underneath. The sunflower hearts on the other hand never lasts more than half a...
  20. The Robin

    Britain's most prolific egg collector, reoffends again.

    I've just seen this guys photo and he should be jailed just for that pony tail at his age alone.
  21. The Robin

    Finches Friend feeders

    Well did you finally buy the seed feeder?
  22. The Robin

    Finches Friend feeders

    I have both the peanut feeder and the seedfeeder. I love mine. I've even seen the robin on the seedfeeder. Can I recommend them given the price....yes, given my own personal experience. It did take a while before the blue tits worked it out. The rest soon followed. Ps, I do have a torpedo...
  23. The Robin

    Europeans, which American bird would you most like to see?

    Sax zim looks amazing. It's somewhere I'm very unlikely to visit, unfortunately. I spent most of my winter nights watching to YouTube's of sax zim and great grey hunting. There's quite a few owls I'd love to see, with the brown fish owl being my favourite and my number one target.
  24. The Robin

    Europeans, which American bird would you most like to see?

    I'd love to go to sax zim bog to see the great grey and barred owl.
  25. The Robin

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    The feeders seems to have slowed down now the weather has finally changed. Ungrateful buggers.
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