Very busy at the bird feeder today! (1 Viewer)

[Bananafishbones]

No. 32 Mistle Thrush

also 6 Redwing (Now 14)

 

[2spot Ladybird]

welcome 2 spot Ladybird thats quite a list! I envy you your redpolls :-C

Thanks for the welcome earleybird |=)| I'm jealous of your Sparrohawk, not had one in the garden yet, so that makes us even ||

Yesterday I had:
50 Starlings
1 Robin
1 Dunnock
6 Chaffinches, 4 Male, 2 Female
5 Goldfinches
Around 40 House Sparrows, approximately half Male, half Female
6 Greenfinches 3 Male, 3 Female
4 Siskins 1 Male, 3 Female
3 Bluetits
2 Feral Pigeons
1 Wood Pigeon
6 Lesser Redpolls 3 Male, 3 Female

Will add today's birds later.

 

[2spot Ladybird]

Today's birds much the same as yesterdays.

 

[hectorzaza]

30 plus Goldfinches yesterday,never had so many on the feeders

 

[2spot Ladybird]

Finally saw a Wren in the garden today, haven't had one in two years. Also had a brief visit from a Great Tit.

 

[Bananafishbones]

No. 33 Long Tailed Tit
3 birds on the feeders, also 27 Lesser Redpoll and 3 Siskin


No. 34 Buzzard
Pretty high up but over the garden

 

[hectorzaza]

Not getting any Great Tits here at the moment,only one since the new year started,plenty of Blue Tits though.

 

[earleybird]

30 plus Goldfinches yesterday,never had so many on the feeders

how on earth do you count that many ? That must be an amazing spectacle:t:

We had 8x Goldfinch this morning which is double what we have ever seen in the garden before. Despite having 2x 12 station heart feeders and a nijer seeder they still fight like crazy with each other:-O

 

[hectorzaza]

Yea they were hard to count,it was prob a few more than 30 but they will not keep still long enough for a proper count,it was a good site,we have a feeding station right outside our front window with niger seed and sunflower hearts as well as mixed seed and peanuts on it with another feeding station a bit futher back with the same on it.The Goldfinches go mad for the sunflower hearts with niger seeds a close second.

 

[EK_Birds]

Our goldfinches seem to be ignoring the nyjer completely recently, sticking to sunflower hearts. Though goldies and nyjer was a match made in heaven ?

Looks like we're moving to East Kilbride soon, right next to some open fields. Be interesting to see what that brings to the garden......

 

[earleybird]

Finally saw a Wren in the garden today, haven't had one in two years. Also had a brief visit from a Great Tit.

Wrens are great photo opportunities arn't they . I find them just as bold and inquisitive as Robins.

Wren calls are one of the few bird calls I recognise as it can get pretty raucous when they spot an intruder, which is why i was lucky enough to manage to capture this pair in the garden last year.

 

[2spot Ladybird]

Wrens are great photo opportunities arn't they . I find them just as bold and inquisitive as Robins.

I wish mine were bold, they're my most elusive garden bird. One of my Blue Tits has become very daring though. For the past 3 days when I've been putting out food for the birds, one Blue Tit comes down from the tree just outside my garden, makes it's way over to the holly bush whilst anouncing it's presence, from there on to the lawn and takes it's time in choosing a tasty morsel to take back to the holly bush to eat |=)| It always makes me smile when the birds are so confiding.

 

[Bananafishbones]

not very often you can get 2 wrens in the same image eb

Well done

 

[earleybird]

not very often you can get 2 wrens in the same image eb

Well done

thank you bfb.......... praise indeed from you!:t:

I could bemoan the fact that there is that awful fence post in the image and one bird is out of focus but that would be churlish of me. I was chuffed to bits to get the pictures.

I'm not sure what they were shouting about but it was pretty noisy. it went on for about 3 minutes and I followed them around the garden taking snaps whenever possible. My camera isn't fast enough and my togging skills are very basic.

 

[majortarantino]

8 Goldfinches
1 blue tit
2 dunnocks
1 blackbird
1 collared dove

 

[hectorzaza]

37 plus House Sparrows in my backgarden this afternoon,great to see but why do they have to eat me out of birdseed?filling them up everday at mo.lucky for the finches also have feeders in the front aswell.funny have same mixes of food front and back yet apart from the odd one the Finches are always in the front and Sparrows in the back.The backgarden is the side that looks over countryside(open fields)where as the front just looks out onto the avenue,road.parked cars etc.

 

[bongofury]

As the thread title says, its been busy at the feeders this week, although it wasn't til today I knew what was feasting away. It seems as though it is the tits and siskins that are eating me out of sunflower seeds. A party of LTTs also popped by, along with a GSW.

 

[earleybird]

wow it looks like everything is starting to get busy again.

Seems like the magic number in our garden is 8 today too. This morning we had 8x blackbirds and 8x goldfinch !:t:

 

[hectorzaza]

House Sparrows still building up,40+ today,might have to take a loan out for my next batch of seed at this rate lol

 

[earleybird]

talking of food where does everyone buy there premium seed and hearts etc in bulk ? Hope I've not asked something I shouldn't ?