With this cold weather we've been keeping all the feeders well stocked up.
I wish I was better at photography because when the Long Tail Tits are all on the coconut together, it looks like the hands on a clock face! And a pair of Robins are delightful, they sit together on the fence waiting for their turn on the sunflower seeds.. Dh, who is a great bird watcher says they're probably from Norway, flown here for the winter? We're very popular with eleven different types of birds.
Recently a chaffinch has joined the tits, gold finches, sparrows and doves.. They are all amazing to watch and when I sit where I can see the one feeder, time slips by.. hopeless on a Monday morning, as its our Welsh lesson and its hard to concentrate, when there's such activity just outside the window. There's been quite a few times when I've missed the tutor asking me a question! Oh, dyma twp!!
Have you birds to watch too?
Chrisxx
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Is the roof on the feeder to keep the birds dry... here there's so much warbling and bird noise in the morning you have to close the door! The willy wagtails love swimming in the birdbath. The never ending heatwave has moved east, their turn to suffer.
I am such an avid bird watcher that I will have to look these birds up and see what they look like. Of course we don't have them here. We have our bird feeders going and right now we've had a great influx of birds out of Canada. They say it's the greatest that it's been in five years.
Always good to see goldfinches, chaffinches and the long tails - just bluetits here at the moment
We have active feeders during the spring and summer, but for the last couple of years, they stop coming during the fall and winter--even the ones who do not migrate. We moved the feeder and put in different feed hoping to entice more birds. A couple of found it, but mostly it sits without visitors. A great disappointment.
Birdwatching is a delight. There's no better way to spend an hour or two, in the warm.
I love watching the birds. We used to have a hanger that hung from the window so you could see them so well.
Such a lovely variety of birds to watch at your feeders. We haven't put our feeders up yet because of some construction in our garden.
I have two feeders for sunflower seeds and a suet feeder. Birds come in waves. When they feed a lot I know it's going to be getting cold.
We have bird feeders and lots of visitors at the moment. They are such fun to watch.
I do enjoy watching the birds.
It's the RSPB big garden birdwatch 23 - 25 January.
https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch
All the best Jan
Oh yes, we enjoy watching the birds at the feeders too. We have goldfinches, house finches, chickadees, white throated nut hatchers, juncos, blue jays, and cardinals. Also a downy woodpecker and a yellow bellied sapsucker.
I actually don't have bird feeders though we had a visiting magpie I fed meat to by hand. They've noisy squawking birds that swoop people to steal hair for their nests.
Love the avian friends!
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