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| Richard Brooks 2005-12-29, 8:21 am |
| PhEaSaNt PLuCKeR wrote:
> Frantic activity here in our garden now from many different birds
> We also have a new visiting Song Thrush as well who is being chased off by
> the male Blackbird
> (greedy *^%£"*)
>
> How's Yours?
>
> **** Merry Christmas ****
We've got various male and female Blackbirds chasing each other around
the garden, a Robin getting fractious at some of the tits (Blue and
Great) for some reason, male Bullfinch, a couple of Chaffinches but the
most exciting thing was a couple of weeks ago, two male Goldcrests
running rings around each other. Still have the usual Collared Doves
and Wood Pigeons and a fly-in by a Sparrowhawk which now finds it
difficult to hide!
Still got the hen Pheasant coming in and cleaning up the barley that
nothing else wants and now it's looking around the other gardens now
that it's feeling brave. Has anyone got an old live cock Pheasant they
don't want ?
Richard.
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| PhEaSaNt PLuCKeR 2005-12-29, 8:21 am |
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"Richard Brooks" <richardbrooks@kdbanglia.com> wrote in message
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> We've got various male and female Blackbirds chasing each other around the
> garden, a Robin getting fractious at some of the tits (Blue and Great) for
> some reason, male Bullfinch, a couple of Chaffinches but the most exciting
> thing was a couple of weeks ago, two male Goldcrests running rings around
> each other. Still have the usual Collared Doves and Wood Pigeons and a
> fly-in by a Sparrowhawk which now finds it difficult to hide!
>
> Still got the hen Pheasant coming in and cleaning up the barley that
> nothing else wants and now it's looking around the other gardens now that
> it's feeling brave. Has anyone got an old live cock Pheasant they don't
> want ?
>
>
> Richard.
Your garden sounds a bit busier than mine Richard LOL
I guess now that it's colder they feel more vulnerable, and protective ....
Great Entertainment!
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| Richard Brooks 2005-12-29, 10:21 am |
| PhEaSaNt PLuCKeR wrote:
> "Richard Brooks" <richardbrooks@kdbanglia.com> wrote in message
> news:dp0ip5$2j7$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
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> Your garden sounds a bit busier than mine Richard LOL
> I guess now that it's colder they feel more vulnerable, and protective ....
> Great Entertainment!
I've just shot a rat that looks the size of an adult rabbit! Serves it
right for digging under the compost frame.
Richard.
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| Janet Baraclough 2005-12-29, 11:21 am |
| The message <dp0ip5$2j7$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>
from Richard Brooks <richardbrooks@kdbanglia.com> contains these words:
> PhEaSaNt PLuCKeR wrote:
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> We've got various male and female Blackbirds chasing each other around
> the garden, a Robin getting fractious at some of the tits (Blue and
> Great) for some reason, male Bullfinch, a couple of Chaffinches but the
> most exciting thing was a couple of weeks ago, two male Goldcrests
> running rings around each other. Still have the usual Collared Doves
> and Wood Pigeons and a fly-in by a Sparrowhawk which now finds it
> difficult to hide!
> Still got the hen Pheasant coming in and cleaning up the barley that
> nothing else wants and now it's looking around the other gardens now
> that it's feeling brave. Has anyone got an old live cock Pheasant they
> don't want ?
Keep feeding her, and she will bring in a mate when he finds her in
spring (and the rest of his harem).
This is the first year since we've been here, that the birds left the
berries on next door's superb holly till after Christmas. It grows right
on the boundary so we get a ring-side view. They started stripping the
tree on Boxing day (blackbirds, thrushes and fieldfares) and the berries
will be gone by the weekend.
On Christmas afternoon we had a flock of goldfinches on the
nutfeeders, plus greenfinches, chaffinches, coal and bluetits.
Janet
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| dylan 2005-12-29, 12:21 pm |
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"PhEaSaNt PLuCKeR" <jay@cutmeukjay.com> wrote in message
news:dp0fu3$nl9$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Frantic activity here in our garden now from many different birds
> We also have a new visiting Song Thrush as well who is being chased off by
> the male Blackbird
> (greedy *^%£"*)
>
> How's Yours?
usual visitors sparrows, blackbirds, robins, blue tits, coal tits, great
tits, greenfinches, chaffinches, yellowhammers, occasional gold finches and
collared doves.
Cheers.
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| Padger 2005-12-29, 12:21 pm |
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"dylan" <no@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> "PhEaSaNt PLuCKeR" <jay@cutmeukjay.com> wrote in message
> news:dp0fu3$nl9$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
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Here our most exotic visitors are the ring necked parakeets which depend on
the generosity of the garden bird table suppliers of food to keep them
throughout the winter.
The sparrows are making a come back after their sharp decline of recent
years and anything I throw over the adjoining field for the crows attracts
the seagulls though they do not come into the garden but stay out in the
field.
When feeding, do not forget water which they need and which can be in short
supply when frozen.
Jim
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| SusieThompson 2005-12-29, 1:21 pm |
| In message <tXTsf.61427$vl2.56090@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, Padger
<padger@blueyonder.co.uk> writes
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>"dylan" <no@nospam.com> wrote in message
>news:dp1031$di0$1@news6.svr.pol.co.uk...
>by
>Here our most exotic visitors are the ring necked parakeets which depend on
>the generosity of the garden bird table suppliers of food to keep them
>throughout the winter.
>The sparrows are making a come back after their sharp decline of recent
>years and anything I throw over the adjoining field for the crows attracts
>the seagulls though they do not come into the garden but stay out in the
>field.
>When feeding, do not forget water which they need and which can be in short
>supply when frozen.
>Jim
>
>
We've had all the usual birds today - greenfinches, blackbirds,
siskins, sparrows, starlings, goldfinches, et all. But - this morning
an adult male yellowhammer was perched just by the bird table, within
6-8 feet of our window. We've never seen one before - a stunning bird!
We still can't quite believe it, but we do have a photo to remember it
by.
Happy New Year to everybody
Susie
Isle of Arran
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| > Here our most exotic visitors are the ring necked parakeets which depend
> on
> the generosity of the garden bird table suppliers of food to keep them
> throughout the winter.
> The sparrows are making a come back after their sharp decline of recent
> years and anything I throw over the adjoining field for the crows attracts
> the seagulls though they do not come into the garden but stay out in the
> field.
> When feeding, do not forget water which they need and which can be in
> short
> supply when frozen.
> Jim
>
>
Water put out this morning, although it was -6deg C out there so not sure
how long it was water.
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| Janet Baraclough 2005-12-29, 1:21 pm |
| The message <jLZnzyFv8AtDFwa+@arrandragons.demon.co.uk>
from SusieThompson <susie@deadspam.com> contains these words:
> We've had all the usual birds today - greenfinches, blackbirds,
> siskins, sparrows, starlings, goldfinches, et all. But - this morning
> an adult male yellowhammer was perched just by the bird table, within
> 6-8 feet of our window. We've never seen one before - a stunning bird!
> We still can't quite believe it, but we do have a photo to remember it
> by.
> Happy New Year to everybody
> Susie
> Isle of Arran
Hi Susie..did you get any snow this afternoon? We saw it approaching
from your direction and wondered if any landed on you :-) (about 4
flakes here).
Happy New Year
Janet
Isle of Arran
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> We've had all the usual birds today - greenfinches, blackbirds, siskins,
> sparrows, starlings, goldfinches, et all. But - this morning an adult
> male yellowhammer was perched just by the bird table, within 6-8 feet of
> our window. We've never seen one before - a stunning bird! We still can't
> quite believe it, but we do have a photo to remember it by.
> Happy New Year to everybody
> Susie
> Isle of Arran
Very nice bird, good to see, but you do think they have escaped from
somewhere though !.
pics at www.knighttrain.freeserve.co.uk
Cheers
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| June Hughes 2005-12-29, 2:21 pm |
| In message <jLZnzyFv8AtDFwa+@arrandragons.demon.co.uk>, SusieThompson
<susie@deadspam.com> writes
>We've had all the usual birds today - greenfinches, blackbirds,
>siskins, sparrows, starlings, goldfinches, et all. But - this morning
>an adult male yellowhammer was perched just by the bird table, within
>6-8 feet of our window. We've never seen one before - a stunning bird!
>We still can't quite believe it, but we do have a photo to remember it by.
>Happy New Year to everybody
>Susie
>Isle of Arran
>
Hi Susie. Happy New Year to you too. I have never seen a yellow-hammer
either. The only birds I have seen today are crows, wrens and kestrels,
although we have had green woodpeckers in our park for many years.
PS After the January tax return rush, I shall give you a ring.
--
June Hughes
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| PhEaSaNt PLuCKeR 2005-12-29, 2:21 pm |
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"PhEaSaNt PLuCKeR" <jay@cutmeukjay.com> wrote in message
news:dp0fu3$nl9$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Frantic activity here in our garden now from many different birds
> We also have a new visiting Song Thrush as well who is being chased off by
> the male Blackbird
> (greedy *^%£"*)
>
> How's Yours?
>
> **** Merry Christmas ****
>
> --
> James (ukjay)
> http://www.ukjay.co.uk
>
> Garden WebCam
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Latest News of the day
Another New visitor who nearly scoffed the lot was a Wood Pigeon
unlike the Blackbird he/she ignored other birds while eating the goodies.
The Coal Tits came back and flitted about from all the feeders, and a Wren
also made
a guest re-appearance.
A female Chaffinch also turned up for the party along with Sparrows.
We also had two Field Mice, which was very amusing to watch.
(just worried about 2 becoming 2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2x2++)
Nice pose from the Robin who was perched on the branch of our 30' Christmas
Tree
(damn, I sold my telephoto lens)
Great to hear about your Garden activity too
**** Merry Christmas ****
James
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| Padger 2005-12-29, 2:21 pm |
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"dylan" <no@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Water put out this morning, although it was -6deg C out there so not sure
> how long it was water.
>
Know what you mean. Our bird bath supplemented by a disused wok gets frozen
solid and has to be emptied out and refilled daily. Actually more like
broken out than emptied.
It always amazes me just how hardy our garden birds are.
btw Yellowhammers were quite common in my part of Scotland in the '50s.
Never kept in aviaries to the best of my knowledge.
Jim
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| Bill Alexander 2005-12-29, 3:21 pm |
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"Padger" <padger@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "dylan" <no@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:dp14bp$mi3$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk...
> snip>
> Water put out this morning, although it was -6deg C out there
> so not sure
> Know what you mean. Our bird bath supplemented by a disused wok
> gets frozen
> solid and has to be emptied out and refilled daily. Actually
> more like
> broken out than emptied.
> It always amazes me just how hardy our garden birds are.
>
> btw Yellowhammers were quite common in my part of Scotland in
> the '50s.
> Never kept in aviaries to the best of my knowledge.
> Jim
>
And still VERY common thank goodness
Hope you are enjoying the southern heatwave?
For the benefit of our English cousins, can I be parochial (me?)
In Braemar as recently as 1982 temps dropped to -27.2
And for Feb of that year temps in my garden hardly rose above -17
I also seem to remember in recent years the criteria for fuel
payments would kick in if the temp dropped 2 degrees below the
seasonal norm.
In the West Country it may mean a pensioner would get the
allowance if it were 2 degrees if 4 was the norm.
While in the Braemar area it may be have been -14 and a pensioner
would not get the allowance.
I suppose the balmy, sorry, colder weather you are having down
there is a novelty?
This over reaction was noted a few years back when some
colleagues had visited New York.
They had to return via London where they were grounded by a
dusting of snow, they could not go anywhere as the transport was
at a standstill. Eventually they go back to Stockholm where the
snow was lying about a metre deep and everything was flowing as
per normal.
Bill....
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| On 29/12/05 4:30 pm, in article jLZnzyFv8AtDFwa+@arrandragons.demon.co.uk,
"SusieThompson" <susie@deadspam.com> wrote:
<snip>
> We've had all the usual birds today - greenfinches, blackbirds,
> siskins, sparrows, starlings, goldfinches, et all. But - this morning
> an adult male yellowhammer was perched just by the bird table, within
> 6-8 feet of our window. We've never seen one before - a stunning bird!
> We still can't quite believe it, but we do have a photo to remember it
> by.
> Happy New Year to everybody
> Susie
> Isle of Arran
Happy New Year, Susie! How lovely to see you posting again. Hope you're
well settled in.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove the weeds to email me)
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