What birds do you get in your garden (1 Viewer)

[SpeedyDux]

A sorry sight this afternoon.

A Sparrowhawk shot off just as I went into the back garden. There was a half-eaten warm carcass of a pigeon on the patio under my kitchen window. Blood and feathers everywhere. It looked like the Sparrowhawk had stripped the meat off both the back and front of the pigeon. A sad sight. Too gruesome for a pic.

Usually the remains are at the bottom of the garden where there is a tree stump used as a plucking post.

Update: I saw the Sparrowhawk 4 times again yesterday. A very large female bird with dark brown plumage. She returned to the place below my kitchen window searching in vain for the kill she made the day before. Scared every other bird away from the garden.

My previous dilemma was should I leave the gory pigeon corpse lying there, or dispose of it? If I left it that would attract the Sparrowhawk anyway, but it might mean no need for another kill, at least for a day. A life saved, perhaps. Or, the fox or a cat would eat it overnight. Who knows.

 

[Liverpoollass]

Umm!...but the sparrowhawk is trying to survive too..so what do you do?...can't answer I'm afraid, I used to believe that we shouldn't interfere with nature, but have now reached the conclusion that we humans have interfered far too much for far too long to the detriment of our wildlife and so now think we should interfere in a positive way. For instance the reintroduction of the Red kite and x Osprey Watch.. what do you think?

 

[SpeedyDux]

Umm!...but the sparrowhawk is trying to survive too..so what do you do?...can't answer I'm afraid, I used to believe that we shouldn't interfere with nature, but have now reached the conclusion that we humans have interfered far too much for far too long to the detriment of our wildlife and so now think we should interfere in a positive way. For instance the reintroduction of the Red kite and x Osprey Watch.. what do you think?

Yes, having destroyed so much woodland habitat these poor birds are forced to live in our towns and gardens. I do support some careful re-wilding, including reintroduction of native species like the Red Kites, and cranes. Other non-native species like ring necked Parakeets? Not in most such cases, although I had a soft spot for the solitary Egyptian Goose that used to live on a nearby pond. He must have been lonely.

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[Liverpoollass]

Never seen an Egypian goose in the UK...did see one in Amsterdam (looked like it was wearing a mask)
But I have seen White tailed Eagles on a number of occasions, reintroduced several decades ago.

 

[Ivory55]

Umm!...but the sparrowhawk is trying to survive too..so what do you do?...can't answer I'm afraid, I used to believe that we shouldn't interfere with nature, but have now reached the conclusion that we humans have interfered far too much for far too long to the detriment of our wildlife and so now think we should interfere in a positive way. For instance the reintroduction of the Red kite and x Osprey Watch.. what do you think?

Not interfering with wild life. How many bird feeders like we all put in our gardens would you see in the wild. There would not be as many pheasants if they was not bred and feeders put out for the shooting season. It’s a hard one to decide where to draw the line.

 

[magicsurfbus]

Spotted a Nuthatch on the feeder the other day. Not seen one of those before.

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[Norfolk Nomad]

Redpoll in the garden this morning, rare visitor.

 

[Liverpoollass]

Wow jealous! Thank you for posting

 

[davanne]

Spotted a Nuthatch on the feeder the other day. Not seen one of those before.

We get nuthatches they are quite entertaining to watch

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[davanne]

View attachment 218512Redpoll in the garden this morning, rare visitor.

Lovely photo thanks for sharing

 

[robnchris]

Well this last couple of weeks we have been visited by a little Jenny Wren, haven`t seen one for years.

 

[movan]

Well this last couple of weeks we have been visited by a little Jenny Wren, haven`t seen one for years.

I had a hanging basket where one of the plants I had pushed into the side and slightly underneath, had fallen out. A little Jenny Wren made it's nest in the hollow. I was delighted.

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[SpeedyDux]

Not quite the same thing but yesterday I saw the first woodmouse out this year. It was foraging for the seeds that have fallen from the bird feeder.

I like woodmice. Last year I watched a tiny baby one play near the plant pots. Its mum kept popping out of a crack in the patio and dragging it back by the scruff of the neck. Then the baby escaped again. This repeated several times. So cute.

 

[Ivory55]

We still have starlings and pidgin and a couple of black birds. The starlings will fly off at the drop of a pin, the black bird lets you walk out and sprinkle a few meal worms down with out flying away. The pidgin are getting fat, haha.

 

[davanne]

I had a hanging basket where one of the plants I had pushed into the side and slightly underneath, had fallen out. A little Jenny Wren made it's nest in the hollow. I was delighted.

We had the same Joy when we live in Lancashire it was lovely to see the chicks when they were ready to fly
We hadn’t realised they had n
Made a nest and we were just about to redo the basket when we realised
They had a lucky escape ....it was a hay rack type basket on the wall outside the back door so they obviously weren’t bothered about us going in and out.

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[Norfolk Nomad]

A bit of color in the garden this morning.

 

[Norfolk Nomad]

Mirror image.

 

[Ivory55]

They are all down your end of the county now beet has finished, it’s more peaceful. Haha

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[Norfolk Nomad]

Roads are definitely more peaceful, now the beet lorries have finished coming through the village.

 

[Ivory55]

It’s a massive amount of beet moved in a short period. There was trucks from Scotland staying down here and shifting the beet, a huge operation.

 

[quickweh]

Quite a moment yesterday, watching the Blue and Great Tits, Goldfinches on the feeder a Weasel scurried around the garden, we live in suburban south Birmingham, Pauline saw a mouse a few days ago so I guess that is what the Weasel was hunting. We also get Sparrowhawks in the area.

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[SpeedyDux]

Yesterday spotted a lovely pair of Greenfinches on the seed feeder. Too far away for pics, unfortunately.

I have hardly seen any Greenfinches since they were decimated by a virus a few years ago.

On an entirely different note, the butterfly pupa we have been looking after has hatched into a Large White today. We put a sugar water feeder with it and it will be released tomorrow.

 

[Drexxer]

Today we have 3 x Ducks visiting us

 

[Foxy1956]

We parked in our friends garden in the north of Scotland and had red squirrels feeding 6 feet away together with Siskins and lots of Goldfinch. No better way to have breakfast in bed as we watched them.

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[DavidG58]

Regular winter / spring visitor for us, yellowhammers love them, had 2 in this morning will try and have camera with me next time they are here

Here is our list for the month so far, I know it’s a bit sad but we like it

 

[Drexxer]

We have Gold Finches this morning

Ducks have gone

 

[Liverpoollass]

Regular winter / spring visitor for us, yellowhammers love them, had 2 in this morning will try and have camera with me next time they are here

Jealous!!

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[DavidG58]

Just had a goldcrest in garden lovely in bright sun, but left my camera on my desk at work

Having said that we spent nearly an hour trying to photograph one in France earlier this year, they don’t stay still for long

 

[Ambilkate]

The house martins are back
Love watching them x
Still havnt heard a cuckoo

 

[tacr2man]

I dont know half of them , but ones I do recognise , Red Kite , Barn owl, Pheasant , wood pigeon , Robins , crows, blackbird , thrush , Great Tit , Chaffinch. Starling , magpies, probably due to my sister operating what amounts to a food bank for birds !!!

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