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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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    Enticing Woodpeckers

    A GSW visits my garden infrequently, about once a week, but never know what day it'll be. :) He has been on on my peanuts, my fatball holder and my neighbours peanuts.
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    New Year's Day Bird Race 2011

    Lol, you swine, seeing the pied waggy at breaktime always lifts my spirits though.
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    Leucism

    I think it's more correct to use light, medium and heavy leucism and to describe the features altered. Albinism is (barring anomalies such as additional chromosal damage or other genetic mutations/malfuctions) is total, and can never be partial. Leucism is highly variable and can range from...
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    New Year's Day Bird Race 2011

    Uhm 6, I was working from 8am-5pm though.
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    Year list Questions??

    Like I said most peoples year lists are species seen anywhere they went.(Obviously captive birds in an avaiary or zoo don't count). So when they look at that list they can easily cross of the birds they saw on holiday in Spain or America or Kenya or wherever and come up with a UK list But most...
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    Any new foods for a new month?

    I suspect the only "new" foods I put out will be cheese,crackers, christmas cakes and biscuits that didn't get eaten by the humans or cat (Weird cat, she loves any carbohydrates like bread, biscuits and crackers, and is not too bothered about meat) But then I do have nijer, sunflower heart...
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    Best Bird of 2011 So Far

    Oh lovely, christinredgate. Haven't seen a kingfisher since I moved across town away from the river.
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    Year list Questions??

    Year list is how many species of birds you see in a callender year, it can be worldwide/country/county or patch based. I think most year lists people keep are worldwide, but it obviously can be easily split into country, county and patch.
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    Best Bird of 2011 So Far

    Only seen a couple of birds as I was working from 8am-5pm.While I was on break today I saw the usual suspects of pied wagtails, blackbirds, house sparrows, collared doves and crows in the supermarket carpark, I'll pick the waggytail.
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    First Bird seen in 2011 prediction.

    I predicted a pied wagtail in the carpark of the supermarket where I work at first break, they love hovering up the sausage roll and sandwich crumbs at smokers corner. As I headed to smokers corner for my break a collared dove flew over head, and as I got to smokers corner the pied wagtail...
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