Hiya I'm Faye
I just started in the last few weeks feeding the birds on the communal grass behind where I live. I live in a very built up urban densely populated area close to the city centre. Its very close to main roads and a duel carriageway.
Behind my sitting room there's a communal grass area no-one uses. There's a long bush and years ago I left a shallow plant/seed tray next to the wall at the end, that it has a flat bottom. It's filled up with rain water and all the birds drink and bath in it.
I noticed in the daytime the birds come at intervals, the bluetits, robins and blackbirds all seem to come together then all disappear together then come back all day long...Where will they actually live? There are some thicker bushes that don't loose their leaves and longer grass with daffodils and crocuses further up..could it be in there?
I started when it snowed in February. So far I give them suet pellets, dried mealworms and birdseeds and sometimes grated cheese and sultanas
What else can I give them?
I have bluetits, great tits (I think, they look the same but much bigger) a pair of magpie, a few common pidgeons, a pair that come together; one only has one foot and the other has a white head so they are recognisable.
A huge wood pidgeon, robins, and a family of blackbird, a couple of males and a couple of females. There are smaller birds that come with the blackbirds, at first I thought sparrows, but now I think could be juvenile blackbirds?? And a Dove.
There was a pair of crows too, they would watch the smaller birds feeding at the beginning, but they never came to eat themselves.There was a huge nest in the top of a tree for several years or as long as I remember I noticed...and I've lived here 8 years...but today I suddenly realised the nest has gone and I don't see the Crows.... I saw them about a half mile down the road...could it be the same pair or different ones?
I just started in the last few weeks feeding the birds on the communal grass behind where I live. I live in a very built up urban densely populated area close to the city centre. Its very close to main roads and a duel carriageway.
Behind my sitting room there's a communal grass area no-one uses. There's a long bush and years ago I left a shallow plant/seed tray next to the wall at the end, that it has a flat bottom. It's filled up with rain water and all the birds drink and bath in it.
I noticed in the daytime the birds come at intervals, the bluetits, robins and blackbirds all seem to come together then all disappear together then come back all day long...Where will they actually live? There are some thicker bushes that don't loose their leaves and longer grass with daffodils and crocuses further up..could it be in there?
I started when it snowed in February. So far I give them suet pellets, dried mealworms and birdseeds and sometimes grated cheese and sultanas
What else can I give them?
I have bluetits, great tits (I think, they look the same but much bigger) a pair of magpie, a few common pidgeons, a pair that come together; one only has one foot and the other has a white head so they are recognisable.
A huge wood pidgeon, robins, and a family of blackbird, a couple of males and a couple of females. There are smaller birds that come with the blackbirds, at first I thought sparrows, but now I think could be juvenile blackbirds?? And a Dove.
There was a pair of crows too, they would watch the smaller birds feeding at the beginning, but they never came to eat themselves.There was a huge nest in the top of a tree for several years or as long as I remember I noticed...and I've lived here 8 years...but today I suddenly realised the nest has gone and I don't see the Crows.... I saw them about a half mile down the road...could it be the same pair or different ones?
