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

[bongofury]

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

I still cough up to Pets at Home, but the website below was recommended to me elsewhere on this forum. Can't remember who it was now, perhaps CB? I'll gve them a go when my supplies get low.

http://www.food4wildbirds.co.uk/sunflowers-c-668.html

 

[earleybird]

thanks bongo looks ideal. :t:

 

[roger1234]

usual suspects here,sparrows(tree&house)blue,coal and great tits,greenfinches,chaffinches,goldfinches,bullfinch,collard doves,blackbirds and robins.very quiet compared to last winter.

 

[earleybird]

has anyone else noticed how crazy everything is at the moment with garden birds ?
This morning we have a resident pair of jackdaws building a nest in our chimney, a pair of collared doves giving it whatfor on the fence, a Blue tit checking out one of our nestboxes and a pair of house sparrows nesting in our garden shed?

This exceptional weather is throwing nature all over the place at the moment. i'm walking around the garden in a T shirt in January :eek!:

 

[Fernowl]

for the first time in twelve years I've seen bullfinches in my garden.They didnt quite make it to the feeder (probably put off by the gang of squabbling greenfinchs) but just to see them made my day.hope they'll be back.

 

[earleybird]

fantastic ! we lost ours 8x years ago when our neighbour chopped a fruit tree down. They only ever seemed to eat the buds/seeds/fruit from this one tree ?

I think Bullfinch are fussy eaters arn't they ? maybe you have a fruit tree they like ?

 

[bongofury]

i'm walking around the garden in a T shirt in January :eek!:

Not quite so up here:-O

Having said that, this is the first winter living in this house where there are green leaves on the shrubs in the garden. A fair bit of Blue Tit nestbox activity, although I haven't yet heard Mr GSW drumming.

 

[Bananafishbones]

welcome fernowl, and what a suprise after 12yrs.

Not quite t-shirts eb but your right its positivly barmy. another appearance of the ouzel blackbird today, I will try to get an image.

dont forget its the garden watch this weekend.

 

[earleybird]

Not quite t-shirts eb but your right its positivly barmy.

dont forget its the garden watch this weekend.

You should come and visit the West Country bfb its positively summery here
Thanks for the GW reminder , I'd completely forgotten.:t:

 

[JeffMoh]

We don't usually bother with hummingbird feeders in the winter but last week I decided to put two up. Today we had a Ruby-throated Hummingbird!

Not sure if we had the visit because of the feeders or because of climate change. It was 81F/27C here on the weekend. Even for southeast Texas that is really ridiculous for January.)

Jeff

 

[earleybird]

I still cough up to Pets at Home, but the website below was recommended to me elsewhere on this forum. Can't remember who it was now, perhaps CB? I'll gve them a go when my supplies get low.

http://www.food4wildbirds.co.uk/sunflowers-c-668.html

I bought 4Kg of hearts today at our local pet shop. It cost £1.68 per Kg which I assumed is an expensive way to buy birdseed.

I checked the price of my local pet shop against those of food4birds and was amazed to find that even if I bought 50Kgs from food4birds it would only save me £1.75 !:eek!: In fact factoring the shipping cost my local pet shop is cheaper !

Either my local pet shop isn't charging enough or buying bulk from bulk bird feed suppliers is not as cheap as I expected it to be .:-C

Has anyone else done a cost check on their sunflower hearts ?

 

[Cheshire Birder]

I still cough up to Pets at Home, but the website below was recommended to me elsewhere on this forum. Can't remember who it was now, perhaps CB? I'll gve them a go when my supplies get low.

http://www.food4wildbirds.co.uk/sunflowers-c-668.html

Not me i'm afraid, but it looks a good.

CB

 

[Cheshire Birder]

for the first time in twelve years I've seen bullfinches in my garden.They didnt quite make it to the feeder (probably put off by the gang of squabbling greenfinchs) but just to see them made my day.hope they'll be back.

Welcome to the thread :t:

CB

 

[earleybird]

We don't usually bother with hummingbird feeders in the winter but last week I decided to put two up. Today we had a Ruby-throated Hummingbird!

Not sure if we had the visit because of the feeders or because of climate change. It was 81F/27C here on the weekend. Even for southeast Texas that is really ridiculous for January.)

Jeff

ooooh we rarely get 27C even in Summer ! what is the usual temperature in Tx this time of year ?

 

[Cheshire Birder]

Not sure if we had the visit because of the feeders or because of climate change. It was 81F/27C here on the weekend. Even for southeast Texas that is really ridiculous for January.)

Jeff

27C!! It rarely even reaches that temperature in the peak of summer over here.

CB

 

[EK_Birds]

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.

Sounds just like the place I'll be moving to shortly, fields at the back, road, cars etc at the front !

 

[JeffMoh]

ooooh we rarely get 27C even in Summer ! what is the usual temperature in Tx this time of year ?

Average high in January is 17C. Mind you, our average June-August high is 32-33C but last year we had 45 days at 38C or higher. Made birdwatching pretty tough, especially when it was humid, too.

Jeff

 

[Cheshire Birder]

ooooh we rarely get 27C even in Summer ! what is the usual temperature in Tx this time of year ?

27C!! It rarely even reaches that temperature in the peak of summer over here.

CB

Great minds think alike!! B B

CB

 

[earleybird]

Great minds think alike!! B B

CB

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Average high in January is 17C. Mind you, our average June-August high is 32-33C but last year we had 45 days at 38C or higher. Made birdwatching pretty tough, especially when it was humid, too.

Jeff

crikey thats hot ! I remember one year over 20x people died in France due to a heatwave but I'm sure it wasn't as hot as 38C . How can anyone do anything in those temperatures ?

 

[Bananafishbones]

29 Lesser Redpoll this pm, Pied Wagtail also

the weather is a little wet and one of those days when noon looks like its dusk