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Unusual birds on feeder ? (1 Viewer)

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PETE - Nikon/Sony Shooter
United Kingdom
I live 2 floors up and have a feeder outside my balcony

Caught these 2 on the feeder - a Magpie and a Blackbird. I have never seen these 2 birds on my friends feeder and she has a proper garden with 5 more feeders than me. Is this weird to see these birds, which are normally ground feeders, behaving in this way ?
 

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I can't speak for Magpies Pete, as I've no experience of them believe it or not; they are virtually absent from my part of Scotland. I do know, though, that they are opportunistic feeders.

My flat is on the first floor, and I've feeders suckered to the window and I also lay a little food on the window ledge (a very narrow one). I've had Blackbirds feeding in both areas. Strangely the Blackie could maintain his balance on the window ledge but not Starlings, who flutter and struggle and usually manage to just blow all the seed to the ground LOL .
 
Starlings - now that is a bird she gets on her garden feeders. Loads of them , parents and young, every day

I get a few on my 2nd floor feeder but she gets a flock :)
 
Yeah the vandals I call them.... they always come mob-handed LOL
 
Hi both

I take a bird feeder away with me when I am caravanning and often get magpies raiding it! They especially go for the fat based food, high in calories I suppose. This most often happens in the middle of the country, The Malverns, Shropshire etc. Never seen a blackbird though.
 
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