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

Mostyn

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Hi everyone,
I'm a new guy; just signed up to your community; and I also love the garden birds that empty our feeders as quick as we replenish them. We have almost all the species of birds mentioned; and some not! recently had a nut hatch and a tree creeper; but they seemed to have disappeared in the last week or so; also the woodpeckers have gone in the last couple of weeks. I'm so pleased to have found this forum; I really enjoyed reading through lots of your posts. Goss hawk, Sparrow Hawk and Peregrine Falcons can be fatal to the wood pigeons and similar sized birds, we have quite a number in this area, and although I love seeing them; it always makes me cringe, when I see them take a bird so quickly. Hey, not to mention a regular Putty-tat visitor .. I'm now going to read more of the posts on this forum.
Regards
M
 

Bananafishbones

Incoherently Rambling .....
Welcome aboard Mostyn. I think this thread will start to get livelier as the winter approaches now. Its nice to have new contributors to keep us updated aswell.
Dave
 

ClarkWGriswold

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Wales
Hi everyone,
I'm a new guy; just signed up to your community; and I also love the garden birds that empty our feeders as quick as we replenish them. We have almost all the species of birds mentioned; and some not! recently had a nut hatch and a tree creeper; but they seemed to have disappeared in the last week or so; also the woodpeckers have gone in the last couple of weeks. I'm so pleased to have found this forum; I really enjoyed reading through lots of your posts. Goss hawk, Sparrow Hawk and Peregrine Falcons can be fatal to the wood pigeons and similar sized birds, we have quite a number in this area, and although I love seeing them; it always makes me cringe, when I see them take a bird so quickly. Hey, not to mention a regular Putty-tat visitor .. I'm now going to read more of the posts on this forum.
Regards
M
Hi Mostyn. Welcome to BirdForum. Whereabouts in Wales are you? From Neath here.

Rich
 

Mostyn

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Hi Mostyn. Welcome to BirdForum. Whereabouts in Wales are you? From Neath here.

Rich
Hi Rich,

Just outside Merthyr Tydfil alongside the river just below the Beacons.
put a post on this forum for recommendations of Binoculars? I have some old version bins I bought 20, years ago at an Argos store. looking for a new lightweight set, not too expensive. What do you use?
 

ClarkWGriswold

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Wales
Hi Rich,

Just outside Merthyr Tydfil alongside the river just below the Beacons.
put a post on this forum for recommendations of Binoculars? I have some old version bins I bought 20, years ago at an Argos store. looking for a new lightweight set, not too expensive. What do you use?
Hi Mostyn. Beautiful part of the world there. Might try for the Great Grey Shrike at Garwnant again soon.

I used to use an old pair of Nikon porros which lasted many years. For my 40th though my OH bought me a pair of used Leica 8x42 Trinovids. Recently I added a Hawke Spotting Scope as I regularly go birding on the coast and many were just too far for me to ID. I'd keep an eye on the For Sale section here as quite often some good pairs come up.

Rich
 

Mostyn

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Hi Mostyn. Beautiful part of the world there. Might try for the Great Grey Shrike at Garwnant again soon.

I used to use an old pair of Nikon porros which lasted many years. For my 40th though my OH bought me a pair of used Leica 8x42 Trinovids. Recently I added a Hawke Spotting Scope as I regularly go birding on the coast and many were just too far for me to ID. I'd keep an eye on the For Sale section here as quite often some good pairs come up.

Rich

Thanks Rich,
looking at maybe a pair of 8x30 or 8x32 a quality pair but not too expensive.
 

ClarkWGriswold

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Wales
Thanks Rich,
looking at maybe a pair of 8x30 or 8x32 a quality pair but not too expensive.
Good luck with your choice Mostyn. There's plenty of great advice on this forum. In case you're interested the Great Norther Diver is still at Llwyn-Onn Reservoir.

Rich
 

babycakes

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They are coming back...It was freezing yesterday....And I was rather busy..

Lovely to see the Blackbirds coming back..o:D

The Blue tits are roosting in our eaves ..Bless.

I love to see a Blackcap come back..
 

ROW

Member
Some news from my birdfeeder today:
Location: Belgium-Flanders, the garden is next to a nature reserve, so nice species and numbers appear from time to time.

Today:
Over 35 Goldfinches and 10 Chaffinches were present on the sunflower seeds.
Coal & Blue tits, Blackbirds are always present.

Hopefully the temperature will drop, then there are Always Bramblings and the occasional Hawfinch.

Best regards
ROW
 

Mostyn

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I actually rather like collared doves, and certainly not stupid - they're fiercely loyal birds, protecting their partners and kiddywinks from other collared doves and, especially, magpies. I wouldn't want to upset one - they're very tetchy things : I've had one raise its wing at me (classic 'back off' gesture) on more than one occasion.

Now woodpigeons. They are dumb. They are the clowns of the woodland bird world- they never fail to make me laugh - incredibly clumsy, and with the bendiest neck known to mankind....

Ha ha, my wife calls the Wood Pigeon her Ducks; because of the way they waddle about our garden.

We also like the Collared Doves, Sparrows peck the seed feeder for them as they sit beneath waiting for the seed to be thrown down to them.
 

ROW

Member
Temperatures dropped to below 0°C last night, and as a result, now over 50 Greenfinch, 15 Chaffinch as well as the first Tree sparrow of the season.

Best regards

Wouter
 

Mostyn

Well-known member
We have lots of Blue-tits on the feeders and almost all the Tit and Finch birds; not to mention hoards of Sparrows. today we had a Black-cap and (the cream for me) a pair of Great spotted woodpeckers. Don't you just love seeing all the garden birds?
 

Larry Lade

Moderator
I watched our backyard bird feeder "off & on" this morning and tallied this list:
House Sparrow - 40 (They really swarmed the heated water bowl too!)
Blue Jay - 2
Northern Cardinal - 3
Black-capped Chickadee - 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1
House Finch - 2
Downy Woodpecker - 1
American Goldfinch - 1
Dark-eyed Junco - 3
European Starling - 1
White-breasted Nuthatch - 1
 

KristieNat

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Had an exciting few days. Two days ago I spotted two Eastern Bluebirds on my gutter, above a window feeder with some suet and sunflower seeds. I'm hoping the mealworms I've been putting out is what attracted them. Also I've been seeing more and more Flickers at the suet feeders. I never get tired of seeing them! There's also been a flock of Robins enjoying the holly trees in my yard.

Today was really interesting; I found a Carolina Wren in my car. The last time I had opened it was yesterday afternoon, so I guess it snuck in then somehow. I assume it was looking for some place warm, but didn't realize it wouldn't be able to get out. There were droppings all over the dashboard so it was probably trying to get out through the window. It was acting more lethargic than usual, I'm assuming because it hadn't eaten in a while and it was in the 30s last night. After opening all the doors and carefully guiding it out, it finally flew out and immediately started foraging in leaves for any bugs it could find. It was still moving a little slowly so I threw some peanut hearts in its path and it took one immediately. I'm hoping it will be fine. Never had that happen before!
 

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