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RSPB Survey - Big Garden Bird Watch

ah-hah! :D

you are almost certainly right, and it seems so obvious now you mention it. funny how they're so unusual here.

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http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=wood+pigeon

thanks!
 
That's weird, they don't seem to be common here. He / she is a right lil chubber...new peep on the block eh. What food should I put out, should I even be encouraging them?

Thanks :)
 
I was sure you were on a wind up with the wood pigeon photo!

To be fair, if you only see the city feral pigeons they do look about twice the size and twice as healthy.
 
I hate wood pigeons with a passion. Every fucking morning for years 2 or 3 of them going "cooo-coo-coo" over and over again til midday. Then the cat ate one, one of them fled, and now there is just one which is barable.
 
I had two that would sit on the roof and coo down the chimney almost into my earhole as I lay in bed. Very annoying. The guy opposite offered to shoot them but he didn't seem the type to have a shotgun license so I declined. Then a cat killed one of them, and a few days later the other. The back garden was a sea of feathers for weeks.
 
I rather like the coo coo's amongst the other twirters :( we have a geese flight path going overhead here and I like them too. How couldn't you? Live and let live i say <3

Birds %)
 
pinkpapaver said:
plenty of herons here in inner city birmingham :D
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There's quite a few in London too. Walked within a few metres of one in Regents Park on Sunday.

brimz said:
I've heard about the parakeets in London n surrounding areas. Not sure they should are good for our own songbirds though.
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There's loads of flocks around here. Luckily none right near us cos they're noisy bastards.

brimz said:
Everyday should be feed the birds day but a good idea still <3 theRSPB
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I feed them everyday but the more I put out the more birds come and the quicker it goes. I get 25kg sacks of seed delivered now and put it out by the bucket load in winter. Our laurel hedge is like sparrow city.

kate said:
That's weird, they don't seem to be common here. He / she is a right lil chubber...new peep on the block eh. What food should I put out, should I even be encouraging them?
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They like corn and they'll keep eating til it's all gone!

badandwicked said:
I had two that would sit on the roof and coo down the chimney almost into my earhole as I lay in bed.
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We used to get that too until we took the chimney off.

Recently got a niger seed feeder now we get these lovely things, sometimes six at a time...

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Robins in the snow are still my favourite though...

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Nice one Val. Goldfinches have done better than any other bird in the last decade and they're putting this down exclusively to the availability of niger seed.
 
^^^

They're great, they look like little parrots. You do have to shake the feeder each day though cos the holes are so small they block easily.
 
Recently got a niger seed feeder
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that's racist!!1!!. oops.

I've only ever seen *one* goldfinch here in our garden. they're absolutely gorgeous, and they move almost like hummingbirds. I wish we got more of them.

at present we have several magpies up in one of our beech trees, having a slanging match with the cats. :D
 
^^^ SHM

Loving the woodpecker. Is that a great spotted? More green woodpeckers around here, we hear them in the woods but rarely see one.

Felix - Get a niger seed feeder and the goldfinches will come.
 
Yeah Greater Spotted. Seems to live in my garden, costs me a small fortune in peanuts. Only ever seen a couple of green woodpeckers. Look on the ground when out for early morning (ie druggy dawn) walks. They feed off the ground on ants mostly.
 
felix said:
thanks for the tip, I'll bear that in mind! need to get one that's squirrel proof though.
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I'm not sure anything is. I've stood and watched while a squirrel unscrews and unbolts a feeder (with more dexterity than I could manage). Grey squirrels (and cockroaches) are just waiting to take over a post-nuclear world.
 
I don't know much about birds at all.

there's a bird of prey regularly flys along a lane about 10 yards ahead of my van out in a very remote part of the mooor, I wondered if it was a peregrine falcon, as there are a few nesting round here...but my colleague who sometimes does the same duty says it's a sparrowhawk...

They fly along ahead of our van cos the noise of the van approaching scares all the young and small birds, sparrows, tits, finches and that out of the hedgerows, and the sparrowhawks have learnt that if they fly just ahead of the van they got easy pickings flapping up out of the hedges straight into their clutches.
 
^

I've had two occasions where Buzzards have flown into my van. One hit the windscreen full on (both bird and windscreen survived, miraculously) and one kinda bounced off the top of the windscreen/roof. Radio 5 died and when I got out the aerial was fucked and covered in buzzard feathers.

Love the sparrowhawk story, entirely plausible. Clever buggers birds.

Edit. Peregrines can fly at about 200mph or something stupid. They have no need for strategy. Pigeons don't stand a chance.
 
^fuck buzzards are big buggers, bet that shit you up.

Peregrines are amazing birds, are there any round by you? I don't know why, but in all me years i've just NEVER been good at IDing birds.

Show me a tiny part of a fish and I'll tell you what it is, but birds, unless it's a buzzard sat on a gatepost staring at me in me van, or a pigeon about to get shot, I got no chance :D, or a pheasant running round like a twat with a death wish in the lanes.
 
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