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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clayts" data-source="post: 1282101" data-attributes="member: 67119">Clayts Central is still home to squadrons of coal, blue and great tits, swooping in throughout the day to steal sunflower hearts, the crack cocaine of the woodland wildlife, it seems.Elsewhere, there are a rather cute and very loving pair of collared doves who are frequent visitors together, often grooming each other and pecking out fallen seeds.Woodpigeons are pretty much staying out since I altered my feeding routine for the squirrels - they are all now treated to two feeds a day by the side of the woods, with a mixture of peanuts, sunflower seeds and hearts and standard bird food, and they all seem very happy with the new arrangement. Sadly, hungry squirrels (even after all that lot - when will they learn to eat the peanuts rather than scatter hoard them ?) still blunder into my garden - I allow them free reign on the sunflower seed feeder (the tits don't go near them when there are sunflower hearts around) but I go out and shake my fist at them whenever they pounce on the sunflower heart feeder - I have found that just whistling at them or a quick handclap makes them scamper for their lives <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />Other random visitors are my friendly dunnock, still a daily visitor and probably the bravest little bird in the whole garden - nothing fazes her, even a blundering oaf like me, a couple of robins, maybe a rare show from a magpie and, very occasionally, a female chaffinch.Despite flocks of starlings swarming the other side of the wood (as well as the roofs of houses in a valley below my estate), they don't come near.My one concern is that not one bird goes near the bird bath - tell a lie, one bird does - a thirsty woodpigeon fills up every day. I've tried moving it around the garden, to include the line of flight the tits take, but no interest whatsoever. Any tips for drawing them in ? (It's a standard Wilkinson's job, nowt flash)</blockquote>

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