Any Of You Fancy A Spotting A Few Birds

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I have experience watching the birds next door in the their garden during a heat wave if thats any use.
 
Mrs DG is a great bird feeder but since moving to a new home a month ago we have not seen one bird in our garden despite a variety of bird feeders being hung up on day one. I think it maybe something to do with the sparrow hawk which makes a daily visit to sit on our television aeriel.
 
Originally posted by Gearoid@Jan 19 2007, 09:23 PM
I have experience watching the birds next door in the their garden during a heat wave if thats any use.
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Yes and I told you I wasn't flying over to defend you next time
 
I think it maybe something to do with the sparrow hawk which makes a daily visit to sit on our television aeriel.
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Ah, now, a recommended deterrent is to get some old CDs, thread string through them and hang them at strategic points around the sparrowhawk's chosen resting place ....

Have you got a long enough ladder, DG?? :D
 
Originally posted by Ardross+Jan 19 2007, 11:46 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Ardross @ Jan 19 2007, 11:46 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Gearoid@Jan 19 2007, 09:23 PM
I have experience watching the birds next door in the their garden during a heat wave if thats any use.
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Yes and I told you I wasn't flying over to defend you next time [/b][/quote]
:lol:

Am I'm noit lying to the lynch mob that your tattoo just resembles the Iron Lady...
 
Originally posted by Gearoid@Jan 19 2007, 09:23 PM
I have experience watching the birds next door in the their garden during a heat wave if thats any use.
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Gearoid its the weather that controls most things in our life? you'll only see BLUE TITS this time of the year.....


JUST LOOK AT THE TITS ON THIS.....

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DG, don't despair and keep putting the food out. When we move to our latest house it was a few weeks before the birds arrived to feed and once they eventually found us we now have them all year round.
 
DG - if you've got a bird reserve near you, may I suggest that they may have some ideas for Mrs DG in 'encouraging' the sparrer 'awk to fly and perch elsewhere. Or a call to the RSPB could be useful. I personally don't know how they're to be discouraged. Seeing your garden bounty attracts tasty fast food for it, it's no doubt delighted you've moved to the area! My neighbours had their pond fish regularly speared by a heron until they passed three or four pieces of twine from side to side across the pond, which put the bird off.

Some suggestions are to put bird feeders inside a chicken-wire caging, about the size of a single garden shed, so that only the ickle birdies can fly through - robins, sparrows, finches, etc. It doesn't look particularly elegant, but they are protected from any airborne attack and over time, the hawk may just give up and perch elsewhere. Good luck.
 
The CD bit wasn't entirely a joke - it really is a recommended deterrent. My Mum and Dad feed the birds in their wee courtyard garden (Dims has taken some wonderful pics of the finches on the feeders). They had problems with a sparrowhawk last year and followed RSPB advice to hang CDs in strategic places. When the light catches them they become threatening to the hawks and frighten them off.
 
I have a sparrowhawk flying around my garden at times. I have noted that he also carries a personal cd player and so I don't think I am going to risk putting my Barry White collection on the washing line for him to nick.
 
:lol: :lol: .....(you do have a sense of humour then?? :P ) Dims, I heard he was a bit older than that, and really had an old BUSH!!! 45 RPM record player under his left wing???? to play old left wing songs? Arias? :)
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p.s I did my own compilation of B-W back last year after downloading songs on....BIT COMET............
 
Muttley - they tried it here as a recommended way of frightening off gulls and pigeons, and my neighbour downstairs has posed two enormous pottery owls in his window in the same - vain! - effort. For a day or two the birds didn't like the flashing CDs, then they seemed to realise they weren't going to get lasered by them, and went on pooping and shrieking (or pooping and cooing) the same as before! But - doesn't it also have the effect of scaring off the little garden birds, too?
 
With this cold snap in parts of the UK, PLEASE do not forget to feed the birds and make sure they have access to some unfrozen water! :)
 
It's natural selection. Birds too stupid to find unfrozen water die. The race progresses.
 
Slightly off topic but I read in a newspaper this week about how many people die in hospital because some nurses are too stupid to supply adequate amounts of drinking water for their patients OR just don't make sure the patients are fully hydrated. Is that natural selection as well? <_<

Anyway, the birds I look after in my garden will not die because they have no fresh (unfrozen) water to drink.
 
Originally posted by Kathy@Feb 7 2007, 09:39 AM
With this cold snap in parts of the UK, PLEASE do not forget to feed the birds and make sure they have access to some unfrozen water! :)
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Brilliant Kathy, Fats are the best food for wild birds, melt lard put into a container with cord in the middle then pull out and hang on a branch in your garden out of the reach of cats, cooked chips, cheese, bacon rind, peanuts, seedballs you make these the same as the lard mould but when put in the container add an assortment of seeds, nuts, etc etc, warm brown rice (Very high in protein)

Fatty foods for humans and in large amounts not recommended are excellent foods for birds, birds need a high level of energy foods the aforementioned supplies their needs. :D
 
Lovely to arrive at Lingfield to a little family of chaffinches busily nibbling at acorns, etc. They went on to sing beautifully in the afternoon.
 
Mark, lots of fat balls and peanuts already out and some chips that were left over from last nights dinner. We have a pheasant that turns up most days just for 20 mins or so to have his lunch. Keeping the snow off of the tables is quite a job this morning but the birds seem fairly happy at my efforts!
 
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