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Post by Nuala Bowtitt on Aug 4, 2007 13:31:39 GMT
Hi Linda
I can so easily get lost in the antics of the birds. I just adore them and find them so soothing. I have so many different ones right now and they're all a joy to watch. The young starlings are so vulnerable when they come down that I'm ever on watch for the cats and a sharp reprimand usually does it.
Thanks again for the time and the info
Love Nuala xx
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Post by Sharon Sharealike on Aug 4, 2007 17:20:55 GMT
We have loads of them thar young Starlings here! PMS hates them as they plop on his car!
Last year a young one stood in an area where the ants were all over the place, hopping from foot to foot as they were all over him, while he ate the others round him!
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Post by Lucy Lastic on Aug 8, 2007 22:36:41 GMT
In the garden and in the woods around us as well as on the river beside the house at varying times of the year we have :
Bluetits; great-tits; coaltits; longtail tits; chaffinches; green finches; goldfinches; bullfinches; tree sparrows;housesparrows; dunnock; robins; wrens; blackbirds; siskens;yellow hammers; chiff chaffs; black caps; mistle thrush; song thrush; green woodpeckers; great spotted woodpeckers;tree creepers; goldcrests; pied wagtails; grey wagtails; spotted flycatchers;redstart; kingfishers; dippers; herons; greenshank; common sandpiper; teal; widgeon; mallard; collared doves; wood pigeons; oyster catchers; cuckoos; curlews; lapwings; swallows; swifts; sandmartins; house martins; barn owls; tawny owls; kestrel; sparrowhawk; buzzards; ospreys; pheasants; crows; rooks; jays; jackdaws; field fare; redwing; pink footed geese; grey lag geese. We also have red squirrels, otters; brown hare; roe deer; rabbits in abundance; stoats; weasels as well as common pipistrelle; soprano pipistrelle' brown long eared and daubentons bats. We have loads of different wild flowers too and seldom a human in sight to spoil it!!
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Post by Lucy Lastic on Aug 8, 2007 22:44:37 GMT
Good morning everyone. Happy Saturday. My two visitors have been playing games with me all week. I have spent quite a lot of the early mornings, skulking around the garden hoping to get a picture but they let me get so far and take flight. They are ground feeders too and they have a peculiar song which sounds a little like Tick Tick...a ratchet but not quite so harsh. I apologise in advance for the quality but this is only one of dozens all of which have been discarded because they are total blurs. [ Come on Lord L. I'm counting on you. It's driving me up the wall now. They are so cheeky and playful too. Not a bit shy and their nest is in a neighbouring tree. Help. Love Nuala xx Juvenile Starlings! |
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Post by Lucy Lastic on Aug 8, 2007 22:48:30 GMT
Nuala, I'm afraid I have to agree with Lord L. Have a look here, and look closely at the picture entitled "1st Winter" (click on it for a larger version) - it looks just like your photo.
We're getting loads of them in our garden at the moment. They're such fun to watch, aren't they? Thank you Linda. I absolutely concede and thank everyone for their interest. I feel deflated because I have to admit, starlings are not my favourite birds ( sorry little chaps) but these held my attention all week and I did get some GREAT pictures of the log feeder. The link was so good, I've earmarked it for future use. Thanks again Lord L. Should have known you'd be right.  Love Nuala xx |
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Post by shemlock on Aug 9, 2007 5:21:32 GMT
 This little fellow crashed into our bedroom window and knocked himself out. Luckily, he was OK, but gave me a photo opportunity. Sorry about the poor quality, but it was taken with my camera phone. I didn't know we had Goldcrests in our garden, until then. |
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Post by territalks on Aug 9, 2007 7:44:52 GMT
Hi Shem Oh he is beautiful, it it just a baby? I am glad it recovered poor wee thing but very beautiful. Love TT xxxx
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Post by shemlock on Aug 9, 2007 7:52:43 GMT
Hi Terri, I think it must have been a young one, because it tends to be the juveniles that fly into windows. It was fully grown, because I looked in the bird book and Goldcrests are very small birds. x x
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Post by territalks on Aug 9, 2007 8:04:30 GMT
Hi Shem Thanks for your answer. Love TT xxxx
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Post by Lucy Lastic on Aug 9, 2007 13:29:53 GMT
Hi Terri, I think it must have been a young one, because it tends to be the juveniles that fly into windows. It was fully grown, because I looked in the bird book and Goldcrests are very small birds. x x
About a month or so ago I heard the familiar bump of a bird against the glass. Seconds later Liusaidh, my boxer, came charging in very agitated. She obviously wanted me to go with her so I went out and found a juvenile woodpecker hanging upside down from the window box. It was just stunned but I held it for a while. All this time Liusaidh was jumping about round me. Just before I let it go I held it down to her, she sniffed it very gently, looked up at me then calmed down. That was when I let it go. It was as if she wanted to check it was OK. She sits for long periods watching the birds on the feeders and the slightest tap of a bird on the window and she's outside to see if it's OK. I know if she doesn't come for me the bird has flown off.
We had a juvenile crow who used to sit on the window sill and bang on the glass, it was trying to get at a life size ornament of an owl that sits in the window. Tearlach, my Border Terrier used to dash out and bark till it flew away. |
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Post by territalks on Aug 10, 2007 10:54:38 GMT
Hi Lucy That reminds me of when I was staying in Scarborough with friends Porscha my German Shepherd loved the beach. She came backe to us on day very excited so my friends followered her to see what she was trying to tell us. She found an injured Gillimott (not sure of the spelling). She did this three times, and my friends took them to the local bird sanctury, they all recovered well. Clever dogs arn't they? Love TT xxxx
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Post by meltemi on Sept 10, 2007 9:26:04 GMT
Greetings to one & all,
Further to "Missed Photo Opportunity 06-09-07 the Female Sparrow Halk"(FSH)...this seems a better place to add further events...Friday an eye-ball to eye-ball moment as i was clipping the yew hedge.Saturday, still clipping the hedge (but further along a precision job) & said FSH flies across the top of my head talons down, aiming for the hedge, memsahib got the first-aid training useful after all. Sunday enjoying the indian summer,sat out reading the paper & FSH flies by at face level at arm's length. She is now called "Cyd". A little while later & even closer, on her return to the nest direction, Cyd drops a dead & sanguineous greefinch in my lap...Now i know I'm always ready to eat any fresh glutten-free food but this is going too far...I wish I had kept grandmother's ARP tin helmet...its too dangerous out in the wild's of our bijou 6 X 15m plot.
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Post by meltemi on Sept 13, 2007 10:41:42 GMT
Greetings one all,
Update various sightings of Cyd the FSH from behind glass...but no contact...tremble each time I'm sent out to fill any of the bins...
We still have "Blackie" the male blackbird (nearly hand-tame) with ony one foot, he must now be 4 summers old. He's a killer he saw off a young challenger earlier this season, despite me beating him off!
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Post by Sharon Sharealike on Sept 18, 2007 15:41:48 GMT
In my garden right now a 2 very young Greenfinches (one is very very small!) sunning themselves in a quiet spot and in the tree is a young Goldfinch looking all bare without the red face cheeks!
Very sweet!
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Post by meltemi on Sept 19, 2007 9:44:07 GMT
Kalimera one & all, Neat pile of black feather's on the patio today...Cyd the FSH, an early breakfast...hope Blackie is ok...  |
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