The first snow of the winter means a bit of garden sweeping to enable the birds to find the scattered food. Mind you its the squirrels, of which we have four domiciled in our ash tree, who seem to be doing most of the feeding.
A marauding squad of long-tailed tits came through this morning for their characteristic 'flying' visit. Not much else to report except that one of our dunnocks has managed find a way to get to a feeder by stretching across from a nearby branch.
Tuesday 30 November 2010
Monday 29 November 2010
First Post
Well I've been garden birdwatching for years now and quite happily too. My daughter tells me I should share my happiness in the form of a blog. So here we are.
My garden is medium sized and only 500 meters from the nearest bit of significant woodland. I've gone a bit mad with the feeding station and now have five feeders containing the likes of sunflower hearts, nyjer seeds and peanuts. I also put out the square suet feeders plus the odd suet ball.
Our regulars include all the usual suspects but given the general decline in some species I count myself lucky that we have house sparrows and starlings. The former are very timid and the latter descend on the suet feeders like a bunch of hooligans.
Our favourite daily visitor is the great spotted woodpecker. We get both the male and female, sometimes together, and junior of course.
As the cold weather sets in we will no doubt see some of our occasional visitors so I'm looking forward to seeing bullfinches, blackcaps and maybe a nuthatch. We've had siskins for the last two years although the numbers were much lower last year so hopefully they will return after Christmas.
I'll post from time to time especially when something unusual calls in. We've already had a brambling (8th Nov) which was a garden first for me.
My garden is medium sized and only 500 meters from the nearest bit of significant woodland. I've gone a bit mad with the feeding station and now have five feeders containing the likes of sunflower hearts, nyjer seeds and peanuts. I also put out the square suet feeders plus the odd suet ball.
Our regulars include all the usual suspects but given the general decline in some species I count myself lucky that we have house sparrows and starlings. The former are very timid and the latter descend on the suet feeders like a bunch of hooligans.
Our favourite daily visitor is the great spotted woodpecker. We get both the male and female, sometimes together, and junior of course.
As the cold weather sets in we will no doubt see some of our occasional visitors so I'm looking forward to seeing bullfinches, blackcaps and maybe a nuthatch. We've had siskins for the last two years although the numbers were much lower last year so hopefully they will return after Christmas.
I'll post from time to time especially when something unusual calls in. We've already had a brambling (8th Nov) which was a garden first for me.
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