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Very busy at the bird feeder today! (2 Viewers)

oh cruel cruel fate:-C

The first time that I decide to carry my heavy 720mm camera with me the blasted batteries go flat just as I am about to snap a pair of exquisitly beautiful Stonechats about 10 feet away from me :C

I admit I.ve never seen a stonechat before and couldn't identify it positively on the spot so all the way home,( between loud curses ,;) I recited black cap,white cheek,white rump, salmon pink chest,grey back, black tips to tail, small short black robin like beak over and over :-O

I think I'll take a quick drive back to see if they are still there :t:
 
earleybird said:
oh cruel cruel fate:-C

The first time that I decide to carry my heavy 720mm camera with me the blasted batteries go flat just as I am about to snap a pair of exquisitly beautiful Stonechats about 10 feet away from me :C

I admit I.ve never seen a stonechat before and couldn't identify it positively on the spot so all the way home,( between loud curses ,;) I recited black cap,white cheek,white rump, salmon pink chest,grey back, black tips to tail, small short black robin like beak over and over :-O

I think I'll take a quick drive back to see if they are still there :t:
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lol..... well remembered Eb :smoke:

Smart bird so get back

Heres a couple I did earlier :t:
 

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Where are my birds?

It's quite a while since I posted to this site although I have been reading posts.
I have a problem - nearly all my garden birds have disappeared! Last winter I had a whole variety of birds and lots of them. This year there are hardly any at all. Today I have seen three Goldfinches, a Dunnock, a Robin and two Collared Doves. No finches at all and no Blue Tits or Great Tits. I have a whole variety of feeders out (same as last year) but to no avail.
I feel that the greenfinches may have succumed to the virus that seems to be affecting them nationally (though I clean and sterilise my feeders), but where the chaffinches and various tits have gone I do not know. Of course, it may simply be that there is still lots of natural food about, but others on this site seem to be getting plenty of visitors. A friend in the next village has the same problem.
Perhaps living in the countryside means that the birds take longer to come to gardens, but I have not had this problem before.
I have just bought a second expensive flash gun for my outside studio and have nothing to photograph!
I'll let you know if it changes over the next few weeks.
 
wow I love those captures bfb. Your images have really come on this past year. They look really professional. Great composition ...oh and the stonechats look gorgeous too don't they!

Sadly though I stood in a muddy country lane in the rain for an hour I didn't see the stonechats again but I did see a large group of 6+ Bullfinches .I really must get organised with straps for my bins and camera. i had to thrust the bins between my legs for shooting and every few minutes jump up and balance precariously on the grass bank before I got run down by tractors, milk tankers and 4x4's :eek!:
bullfinch1.jpg

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Denny Woodthorpe said:
It's quite a while since I posted to this site although I have been reading posts.
I have a problem - nearly all my garden birds have disappeared! Last winter I had a whole variety of birds and lots of them. This year there are hardly any at all. Today I have seen three Goldfinches, a Dunnock, a Robin and two Collared Doves. No finches at all and no Blue Tits or Great Tits. I have a whole variety of feeders out (same as last year) but to no avail.
I feel that the greenfinches may have succumed to the virus that seems to be affecting them nationally (though I clean and sterilise my feeders), but where the chaffinches and various tits have gone I do not know. Of course, it may simply be that there is still lots of natural food about, but others on this site seem to be getting plenty of visitors. A friend in the next village has the same problem.
Perhaps living in the countryside means that the birds take longer to come to gardens, but I have not had this problem before.
I have just bought a second expensive flash gun for my outside studio and have nothing to photograph!
I'll let you know if it changes over the next few weeks.
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pretty sure it is the weather,last year we had a harsh winter especially at this period of time,there is still lots of natural food about but as the weather turns colder and the natural food disappears i am sure your birds will return.
 
Denny Woodthorpe said:
It's quite a while since I posted to this site although I have been reading posts.
I have a problem - nearly all my garden birds have disappeared! Last winter I had a whole variety of birds and lots of them. This year there are hardly any at all.
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roger1234 said:
pretty sure it is the weather,last year we had a harsh winter especially at this period of time,there is still lots of natural food about but as the weather turns colder and the natural food disappears i am sure your birds will return.
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I agree with Roger. The recent mild weather is certainly to blame for the lack of garden birds.

CB
 
earleybird said:
wow I love those captures bfb. Your images have really come on this past year. They look really professional. Great composition ...oh and the stonechats look gorgeous too don't they!

Sadly though I stood in a muddy country lane in the rain for an hour I didn't see the stonechats again but I did see a large group of 6+ Bullfinches .I really must get organised with straps for my bins and camera. i had to thrust the bins between my legs for shooting and every few minutes jump up and balance precariously on the grass bank before I got run down by tractors, milk tankers and 4x4's :eek!:
bullfinch1.jpg

bullfinch2.jpg
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Cheers eb
Well done with the party of Bullfinch, it certainly made the second visit more than worthwhile
 
Some great pics on recently and good reports for some people. Sadly I have nothing to declare. Feeders are getting topped up but I am seeing nothing of the birds. I also live in a very rural area so birds are a bit scarcer than usual at the minute.

Welcome Old Fogey.
 
yes its the same here spinneygal.

We are still getting a mini flock of sparrows and the occasional C dove , woodpigeon and chaffinch.
The usual GT, CT, BT and chaffinch are there throughout the day but a rare treat yesterday 6x long-tailed tits at once ! not seen them for a few weeks.
sadly i think that our sparrowhawk took the last of our goldfinches last week.:-C

Its so balmy here in the SW that we are still getting butterflies, horseflies,loads of midges etc so I suspect there are plenty of insects about at the moment.
To think that this time last year we were snow-bound here !:eek!:

Thats bad news about the turtledoves Bongo...Can't say that I have ever seen one down this way.
 
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Our feeders are remarkably quiet, particularly given that we're in a drought and that cold weather has arrived. We're getting only N Mockingbirds, Carolina Chickadees, Northern Cardinals, Downy Woodpeckers, Red-bellied Woodpecker, White-winged Doves, Orange-crowned Warblers, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Carolina Wren and House Sparrows.

Have seen Cedar Waxwings at work, though, and my wife saw some at home. Luckily, too, the area near where I work is producing incredible numbers of birds, many of which normally do not reach our area. So what I miss at home I see at/around work

Jeff
www.jeffincypress.blogspot.com
 
Plenty of activity this morning with 3 robins, 4 chaffinches, 25 goldfinches,18 house sparrows,7greenfinches,7collared doves, winter is here folks !!
 
A few good species this morning:
male GS Woodpecker
2 Lesser Redpoll
2 Common Gull
Sparrowhawk overflying fairly high up but close enough to send everything scattering
 
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