Have dug our old compact camera out and am amazed how much better it is than the one on my phone.
Therefore I can show you our new regular visitors , goldfinches.
The parakeets normally scare them off though.
Apologies for state of garden,bins etc.
Rats mostly, so had to stop feeding the birds for a while
Nothing at the moment. Went away for a few days and a particularly persistent squirrel has destroyed them.
Tits
Out bird feeders need to be very squirrel proof which also means they are only for small birds as the big birds cannot fit through the gaps to get to the food.
We had some pigeons that discovered that if they tried to balance on the feeders they would fall off which looked amusing but also spilled some of the feed so they would eat it from the ground where it landed.
We then had some magpies watching this and the clever buggers started simply crashing into the feeders enough to knock the food out and eating it from the ground.
Once the magpies discovered this trick, 3 of them completely emptied the feeder in about 20 minutes. When I refilled it the next day, 4 magpies and 10 minutes removed all to feed. Not sure what to do now.
We've had Redpolls and Siskins back this year after a gap of a year.
It is incredible how much nature is still out there despite the incessant kicking we give it.
Incredible but not indestructible.
Goldfinches, Starlings, House Sparrows, Jackdaws, Feral Pigeons, Wood Pigeons, Collared doves, Blue Tits, Great Tits, Long Tailed Tits, Coal Tits, Robins (nest in the garden), sometimes we get Ringneck Parrakettes, very occasionally a Great Spotted Woodpecker, Bull Finch, and Chaffinch.
We always have grey squirels.
We get nuthatch, greenfinch, robins, and spotted woodpeckers, as well as loads of bluetits, great tits, and some others we think are coal tits or marsh tits.
Magpies occasionally try their luck but don't persist very long. We've got a baffle on the pole and the squirrels learned fairly quickly not to bother trying, after a week or so of amusing failures.
Bit of a mixed bag - mainly the world's most aggressive robin and a collection of blue/great tits, but we've had goldfinches, chaffinches, a nuthatch and wrens.
Once had a jay in the garden but not on the feeder, and last year we had a pair of buzzards on the street.
Bluetits and the odd robin. Plus some pigeons on the grass below picking up the leftovers.
Siskins, goldfinches, chaffinches, tits, robins and an occasional woodpecker
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Not especially rare around these parts
House Sparrows, occasional Dunnock, jackdaws and one MASSIVE rook that comes down like an angel of death and trashes everything for a while.
And two rats that are incredibly cute and a long way from the house. How they escape from all the local cats is a mystery.
Plenty of the usual here. Maybe siskins the most exciting. Flock of waxwings sometimes comes by but they are more interested in the rowan berries than the feeder.
Used to have rats but have fixed a plant pot drip tray under the seed feeder which catches the spillage. Still some rats around probably (well, definitely, I found a dead one last year) but not so obvious.
For those struggling with squirrels and rats trashing everything, this has been very effective for the last three months.
Basically a wooden beam with short lengths of plastic pipe that spin. The squirrel has tried to walk on it once and ended up in an angry heap. The plastic squirrel baffle dome stops any jump attempts and also spins, so we can then use normal feeders that woodpecker, collared dove and jackdaw etc can use.
Squirrel still visits but grabs a few bits off the floor and then grumpily runs around the fence and tree before leaving in disgust 🙂
and some others we think are coal tits or marsh tits.
@MrSalmon
Coal tits are quite easy to identify - little white spot or patch on the back of their neck. They also generally dash in, grab a seed, and leg it (well, wing it) pdfq. They dont hang around much.
Even the experts have problems distinguishing between marsh and willow tits, and since those are both pretty uncommon these days, its a fair bet you're seeing the coal tit.
I keep trying but give up around three months in every time.
Huge wood pigeons that paint everything in a thick layer of guano. They pick through anything the legions of herring gulls leave behind.
Nothing else gets a look in. I'm going to get the useless Eucalyptus tree cut down so the bastards have less places to stand on watch for me to try and feed the little birds.
We’ve got a baffle on the pole and the squirrels learned fairly quickly not to bother trying, after a week or so of amusing failures.
Due to the mk1 fido in the house and the feeder being a long way from any safe cover we don't have a squirrel problem.
Currently the finches, tits and robins are eating the yellowy fat balls, peanuts and niger seeds. (The robin seed feeder with added meal worms is of no interest and neither are the sunflower hearts).
Birds. That's about the extent of my knowledge.
No squirrels, but I've had to put a wire tray underneath because they were picking out the seeds they didn't like and throwing them on the floor which led to a slug problem.
Sparrows - lots of sparrows - a variety of tits, robins, blackbirds, starlings. Pigeons have worn the ground bare under the feeders, squirrels will occassionally try and pry the wire apart on the nut feeder, magpies and pigeons will occassionally try (and fail) to get at the mealworm - I put a dish on a table under a cage, blackbirds and starlings can get through, but nothing bigger. Finches sadly very rare visitors, get the odd jay, woodpecker (for the grubs in the bee boclxes, dammit) and sparrowhawk popping by.
sparrowhawk popping by
This has started to appear. Probably to eat the birds I posted above
Nothing! Stopped feeding months ago as rats underneath a constant problem despite the best efforts of my terriers. Lots of birds in the rest of the garden though feeding in the woodland and on the seed heads left from last year’s flowers. I’ve not seen a reduction in numbers or variety since stopping feed, have to look and listen more and just more widespread. Tits - Blue, Great, Longtailed, coal, willow. Lots of goldfinches, green, bull, chaffinch. Gold or fire crests, sparrows, robins, blackbird, thrushes - song and mistle, wrens, buzzard, tawny owls, sparrowhawk, jackdaw, wood pigeon, magpie. Chiff Chaff arrived the other day so hoping for willow warbler soon. I also use the free “Merlin” app to check what’s about, it was a revelation last year to identify birds just passing through!
Currently the finches, tits and robins are eating the yellowy fat balls, peanuts and niger seeds. (The robin seed feeder with added meal worms is of no interest and neither are the sunflower hearts).
Fussy buggers aren't they? We find the opposite - fat balls get basically zero interest, but they all love the sunflower hearts, with peanuts a distant second.
In rough order of frequency on the feeders
Coal tits
Blue tits
Goldfinches
H Sparrows
Siskins
Dunnocks
Greenfinches
Chaffinches
Robins
Starlings
Long-tailed tits
Magpies
Nuthatches
Great spotted woodpecker
Very fussy indeed - I gave up on peanuts and niger seed, they won't touch fat balls but love fat blocks(?!), demolish sunflower hearts and will do mixed seeds if pushed.
just the usual, jel of people sprawks, wish they'd eat my birds
Very nice collection of photos' and birds. Here, not too exotic - great, blue, coal tits, blackbirds, occasional fieldfare, house and tree sparrows, chaffinch, greenfinch and once or twice gold finches.
Could see a sea eagle early this morning out of the bedroom window tho' and a heron.
I've stopped feeding this week. First greenery coming through
Fussy buggers aren’t they?
You're not wong, the fat balls are from Peckish currently £4 for 12 at Waitrose (my birds are reet posh). Last year sunflower hearts were going faster than I could keep up and the peanuts were going off if not changed regularly.
We also have a resident Sparrowhawk / F15.
I've seen it a couple of times this winter - 'see' in the loosest sense - just a flash and gone.
This BBC short film is one of the best things on YouTube IMO.
^^^ though ambush is probably the preferred method for sparrowhawks I watched one hunt like a terrier with a rat trapped but couldn't quite get at... this was a greenfinch in some dense garden undergrowth. He was one side to the other trying to flush it out. the finch escaped in the end.
Regular visitors are:
Blackbirds
Tits - Long tailed (occasionally)/Blue/Great/Coal/Marsh
Goldfinches
Sparrows
Robin
Crows
Magpies
Starlings, lots of starlings! Roughly 1/3 of the main flock at a time - there just aren’t enough feeders to accommodate 150-odd birds at one go, and I reckon there’s 40-50 descend on the tree at a time, noisy quarrelsome little wretches that they are! Come the warmer weather, and I have my bedroom window open, I have to wear earplugs to avoid being woken up at 5.30 in the morning. 😖
I have in the past seen Goldcrests, and I’m sure I hear them around, but they’re so small and well camouflaged it’s difficult to see them once the tree’s in leaf. The magpies have learned how to perch on the feeders, the blackbird has sussed out that one of the fat-filled half-coconut shells is hanging at exactly the right height and distance from the adjacent branch that he can stand and peck away for absolutely ages.
Here’s one of the brighter coloured visitors:
And here’s one of the crows breaking off twigs from my silver birch for nesting material…
Mostly starlings, but I love starlings so that's fine. And they've created a weird little cooperative ecosystem- they drop loads of food, which the blackbirds and fat pigeons hoover up, and the coal tits and sparrows use them as early warning. Even the crows cohabit, I guess when there's easy food there's no point in hassling small birds.
Do wish I had a bit more variety but this is a very birdfeedy sort of area, I think a lot of the more middle class birds reject my B&M Bargains birdfood.
Back garden we seem to have the world's population of sparrows, some tree sparrows ,robin, black bird, plus blue and great tits, chaffinch, the odd yellow hammer and grey and red legged partridge (on the floor!). Had a sparrow hawk too.
Front feeder across the track,blue/great/long tailed tits, chaffinch, robin, tree creeper, but best off all we've had a greater spotted woodpecker daily for a while now.
Also a pesky pheasant has started to wait on our doorstep for me to come out and feed the birds 🤣. It's actually followed me about when I went for a walk too!
Our bird feeders are super popular with our guests....and the birds too!
Only snag is the rats are not so much! Cheeky buggers set up a nest directly below the feeder. You can buy feeders advertised as anti-rat with collectors or I'll try and fashion up something myself.
We have fat balls in a feeder front and back, but only put out seed mix on a morning to minimise rat issues, as we live in a house on a farm they'll always be about, but I think it does help minimise them in the garden.
The pigeons and squirrels soon hoover up any crumbs we have.
The demise of Wilko has seen my spend on bird food diminish significantly, but I think the birds miss their super tasty suet pellets.
This somewhat forced reduction in the availability of decent bird food has led me to refine what I put out as it was getting a bit daft, with around seven feeders of various styles and fillings to manage. T’was very annoying to then see the local squirrel just have a go at everything.
Currently offering mainly sunflower hearts but I have a narrow range of diners. We did go through a spell of loads of Goldfinch on a Niger feeder but they seem to have disappeared.
I was considering getting one of those Roamwild feeders which are supposed to be go for songbirds. Just using that and filling with sunflower hearts.
The demise of Wilko has seen my spend on bird food diminish significantly, but I think the birds miss their super tasty suet pellets.
B&M bargains does a decent line in cheap fat balls.
We get Long Tail tits, Dunnocks, Sparrows, Great/Coal/Blue Tits, Robin, Blackbird, a pair of Jays (although they are only in for the red berries in the tree next to the feeder), very occasional Goldfinches and the Sparrow Hawk.
I buy the large tubs of suet pellets from B&M, judging by how quickly the four feeders full of pellets empty, they seem to like them, same as the half coconut shells full of fat 🥥 . Fat balls are a bit of an issue, in that the regular ones, the pale cream ones, just get ignored, B&M used to do some much darker greyish ones with black sunflower seeds in which I can’t find at the moment, but there’s a pet supply place called Jolley’s, or Jollies, not sure which, who sell similar ones and the birds go through those pretty quickly, in fact the feeder’s nearly empty, so I’ll fill it up later.
The four feeders full of suet pellets, which I filled up yesterday evening are all now half empty! Again. That’s every other day I’m filling them up.
To my astonishment, having mentioned them in my previous post, I noticed something flitting around in my Acer and into the Cedar hedge next to it, and it’s a Goldcrest! It was on the fatball feeder, then fossicking around on the tree branches, then it flew across to the conifers next door, so I reckon they’re nesting and picking the moss and lichen off my tree. 😁
Not very good photos, they’re very small birds and I’ve only got my phone, but I’ve cropped them and you can just about make out the yellow stripe, it’s on the end of the branch below the mesh feeder and level with the longer plastic feeder in the top photo.
I’m just really chuffed and excited to see they’re still around, not a common garden bird in these parts. Just checked on my bird app, their lifespan is about two years, maximum a bit over four, and I’ve seen them around for somewhere over twelve years or more, so they’re clearly happy with this location.
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I can recommend one of these if you want to stop squirrels. The cage is built of thick gauge metal which they can’t chew through and it has a screw top which totally stops them from destroying it or getting at the food.They gave up after a couple of attempts. I only use sunflower hearts in it as mixed seed bits the birds don’t like just gets thrown around and attract rats which have now stopped coming. Although fox and badger in the garden at night might also help.
ive got a small ‘house’ style feeder for suet pellets but gets emptied in a couple of hours by magpies and recently starlings which not had before this year. Strangely squirrels totally ignore the suet pellets. Can’t put fat pellets out as magpies again will destroy them in quick time and peanuts just get ignored by most birds as well and go mouldy.
Well this was unexpected a couple of weekends ago! We even had Derbyshire Wildlife Trust around to see if they could film him. Sadly it appeared to be a one off visit. They think he is one of last years cubs checking out places for a new den. But great to see him in the garden nonetheless. Apparently they love peanuts from and actively forage around feeders 🤗
We had a badger pop in one evening - we get foxes all the time, and I've no problem being in the garden at the same time as them, but I'd have scarpered if the badger turned up while I was out there, it's like having a mini black-and-white tank rumbling about!
Burchy1
Free MemberB&M bargains does a decent line in cheap fat balls.
Nothing in my garden eats these, all too choosy. But the suet pellets are super popular. I get the big cardboard boxes, works out really cheap
Burchy1
Free MemberB&M bargains does a decent line in cheap fat balls.
Nothing in my garden eats these, all too choosy. But the suet pellets are super popular. I get the big cardboard boxes, works out really cheap
Yeah, I’ve bought lots of things that the birds are supposed to be really mad for, and they either ignore them and they go mouldy, or in the case of Niger seeds got tossed on the floor! I’ve emptied another tub of the mini suet pellets, the four feeders have been emptied in one day! It’s the Peckish high energy fat balls I was trying to think of, but the ones I get from Jollyes Pet Store are much the same, and they’re doing three packs for the price of one, so I’m buying a few more, to keep up with demand.
There’s going to be lots more starlings turning up in a couple of months, and possibly sparrows, they’ve been noticeably vocal recently, as well.
Then there’s the hedgehogs, I’ve got to buy another box of Pedigree dog food in the sachets, as well as a bunch of packets of Dreamies, with the creamy centres, and then there’s the 2kg bags of calci worms I buy every two weeks, because the starlings and the hedgehogs both love them. So do plenty of the other birds as well, because of what the starlings toss on the ground. 🤷🏼
Which reminds me, I’ve got to write a shopping list…
We have a pair of red cardinals here in North Georgia but our main visitors are freakin’ thieving pine siskins - seem to appear in their hundreds, scare off all the other birds and eat everything in sight 😬
I just binned an old maggoty box of fatballs, the birds round here simply don't touch them. It's about 90% sunflower hearts, and some peanuts for the tits.
The one at work (HebTroCo) has regular visits from Blue, Great, Coal, Long Tailed tits, Nuthatch and Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker
Ohhh would LOVE to see a lesser spotted, only ever seen Great Spotted.
Ohhh would LOVE to see a lesser spotted, only ever seen Great Spotted.
We've got some nesting around here. When I ride to work at the moment, I'll hear at least 3 or 4 woodpeckers drumming, but can't differentiate between the sounds, and I'll occasionally see any of the different types. (I'll also pass a couple of dozen curlew in the playing fields every few days. 😀 )
Down here in Greater Manchester we've got:
Goldfinch, greenfinch, siskin, blue tits, coal tits, great tits, long tailed (but they never use the feeders), dunnock, wren, robin, blackbird.
Oh and magpies nesting in the hawthorn tree.
Mainly feeding sunflower hearts and mealworm.
Hedgehog box is being emptied, but probably by the rat nesting in there.
Have a mini pond, but not seen the resident frog yet, but disappointed he's not on the game enough to get some frogspawn going.
And here's an old picture of said frog and a squirrel queuing to get to the pond. Since then the log pile has completely filled this space.
In addition to the birds themselves, isnt it amazing how quickly certain species switch foods when the weather changes. 5-15 degrees and the fatballs are untouched. Bit of breeze or temps under 5 degrees and they're going through roughly one a day.
Oh, and Mr/Mrs Sparrowhawk nearly took my head off yesterday as I was walking back down the garden to the house. Must have been 5 yards in front of me as he/she flashed across the garden. He/she has a great run out of some tall trees, across five or six narrow gardens with hedges and up into other tall trees.
And a Red Kite circling in the last few days too.
Love it.
We have a pair of red cardinals here in North Georgia but our main visitors are freakin’ thieving pine siskins – seem to appear in their hundreds, scare off all the other birds and eat everything in sight
Almost like the Starlings, except despite their best efforts, even the blue tits pretty much ignore the starlings - they just hop onto another feeder.
I think there was a Sparrowhawk in the garden briefly the other day, judging by its appearance with the long tail and rather rounded ends to the wings.
There were Peregrines around a few years back, but I haven’t seen them for a while; more likely to see ravens or red kites, remarkable considering where I live, the actual edge of town is about a kilometre away now.
Hedgehog box is being emptied, but probably by the rat nesting in there.
Their feeding station is emptied by the next morning in my garden, and I know there’s no rats about - the poos they leave behind are a good clue, mucky little wretches crap on their own food dishes! 🤨
I had yet another 2kg bag of Calciworms delivered this lunchtime, so far this year I’ve had 2kg bags delivered on 31 January, 28 February, 12 March and today, 27 March. That’s £52 so far this year. Surely it would be cheaper to have kids?
I haven’t seen the Goldcrest lately, but the fact they’ve been around for years and I hardly ever see them shows how well camouflaged they are.
One thing I’m going to get put up is a double swift box, hopefully I might encourage a couple of pairs to nest. 🤞🏼
We don't feed birds here, but for the last few days there's been a pair of Forest kingfishers hanging out on our pool fence. They were scooping insects out of the pool. I got my DSLR for the first time in years but the overcast weather means the photos are rubbish.
Peanut cages, as if we put out fat balls etc, theres lots of crows and magpies here and they just destroy the feeders.
They cant get to the peanuts in the cages.
We get small birds like above, sparrows, tits, wagtails etc. But a woodpecker comes every so often.
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Can't find the picture of the woodpecker at the moment. When it's not rats (or squirrels), we have a fabulous selection of tits and finches
*edit - found it. Not the greatest pic uploaded and then downloaded from FB and taken on the phone through glass from the bedroom
I love the Nuthatch, I think he's probably my favourite.
I'm getting a good crop of greenfinches, goldfinches, assorted tits (blue & great, mainly) and have just recently started to see a couple of siskins. They've not been around for a few years, but maybe there are a few extra migrants* in the country this winter to bolster the local population.
Between them, they're chewing through sunflower hearts at quite a rate, with blackbirds, pigeons and dunnocks on the ground below to mop up the spillage. And a field mouse a fortnight back.
Fat balls, peanuts and niger seed are pretty much being ignored in favour of the sunflower hearts, although the dried mealworms each morning soon get gobbled up.
(* I'm assuming they flew under their own steam, rather than small boats)
All of the regular bird feeders are fine for small portions.
I couldn’t find anything, large enough to hold a loaf of bread.
These are barbq accessories:
Emptied in no time at all.
i can only assume that the pigeons appreciate having croutons to dip in their cup-a-soup😂😂😂
Cock all.
When I was 14 (ahem 41 years ago), we had blue/great/coal tits, green/bull/gold/chaffinches, siskins, dunnocks, wrens, mistle/song thrushes, robins and even a blackcap once. On the same residential estate as I live now. I have two feeders and the only thing that's been on it is a big, fat woodie. What happened?
My local ikea is selling these for £3
Check out this TOPPIG from IKEA.
Here’s a little more information:
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quite easy to cram an entire loaf into it…
This is our second summer here. Last year we had a couple of sparrows and a bunch of crows, in the last few weeks I’ve lost count of the number of species of finches and tits who’ve made daily visits. Dunno if it’s our biodiversity drive in the garden, the fact we removed a fence or something to do with the weather, but I’m delighted.
First baby robin of the year today.
Already had baby blue, coal and great tits, rook, blackbirds and about 1000000 starlings.
Caught a pine marten eating sunflower hearts direct out of the feeder the other day. That was a new one on me. Have video evidence but no idea how to add that (or a photo) to a post so you can just presume I'm lying.
And to continue on that theme in rough order of frequency chaffinch, siskin, house sparrow, starling, greenfinch, sedge warbler, I could go on. A kingfisher flew through once on the way from the river to the loch that I live by. Got ospreys and eagles visible from the garden to. But not on the feeder. Seen the sparrowhawk take birds of the feeder. There's a badger set 50 metres from the garden.
I'm tedious and straying of the topic, I am very lucky.
Oh, red squirrels come and go also. And we've got two male and one female Mallard in residence under the bird feeders at the moment hoovering up scraps.
I've finished bragging now. Sorry. We get chats also, just remembered.
Got a great spotted woodpecker with it's young 'un back and forwards to our fat balls and nuts. Been great watching them.
Waderider - your list is spectacular. Red squirrels are my favourite mammals in the UK.
We've been blessed with lots of fledglings; blue and great tits, green finches, goldfinches, lots of house sparrows, dunnocks and 2 sets of baby robins. Just waiting for the blackbirds (their nest was raided by a magpie).
Because it's unseasonably cold the bird feeders need feeding every other day.
I wondered what the pigeon was doing hanging around in the garden, then i noticed the jackdaws raiding the feeder. I have a cage round it to stop the things but they found a way to get the nuts out. The pigeon waits underneath for the bits
And thats all
My four suet pellet feeders are being emptied by lunchtime, the coconut halves are also being emptied by the afternoon, the calciworms are all gone in an hour. It’s impossible to estimate the number of starlings now, there’s so many youngsters, I’ve got young sparrows, great tits, blue tits, coal tits, blackbirds, a robin, and the sparrows seem keen to start second broods.
I’m going to have to start a GoFundMe to pay for the food!
The food that’s being eaten in a day would have lasted nearly a week several years ago.
We're going through 1.5kg of sultanas a day... blackbirds love them, unfortunately the 1000000 starlings have developed a taste for them too.
*sigh*, it’s bad enough that I have to hose and scrub the hedgehogs feeding station because the mucky little sods crap all over the place, now I’m having to hose starling crap off of it as well!
This is an older photo, the box has a cover over it now, but there are a lot more starlings around now and the box looks like a bird table inside. 🤨
We have a similar situation to waderider although the badgers are swapped out for tawny owls.
Currently we are inundated with siskin, very impressive. They have displaced the coal tits the live en masse in the garden
We had a total feeding hiatus over spring, nothing was interested so we took food in to save it. Last 3 weeks it's gone mad again, possibly due to cold weather. Highlight for me was bullfinches on the flowerpots by the patio, stunning birds, plus an endless stream of goldfinch.
I have only just realized that the woodcock who over wintered with us had gone, fingers crossed he comes back in the autumn.
Swallows arrived 25 may and are constantly landing in our veg patch. I think they take wood chip from the path and use it for nest building. Such a beautiful bird up close and superb to watch as they come in through the runner bean supports and touch down
We have a fabulous robin nest under a piece of clay piping in our scruby corner, 3 chicks I think. The robin patrols along the lines of fence posts, picking grubs and insects
As usual the idiot blackbird throws his weight around trying to look hard. Nobody cares
This year the smaller birds have been making more use of the water feeding station, quite cool to watch that
quite easy to cram an entire loaf into it…
I thought bread was supposed to be bad for them? Fills them up, but no nutritional content. Or does that just apply to ducks?
A subtle hint, requiring that I trim off the crusts?
Dainty little fu****s!
