Bullfinch

[bilM]

male /female Bullfinch that visit my garden and my Sparrow

 

[Lenny HB]

There was me expecting a pic of a gas connector.

 

[Nirvanauk]

male /female Bullfinch that visit my garden and my SparrowView attachment 464625View attachment 464626View attachment 464627

Very nice. what sort of camera and settings did you use?

 

[ronidog1]

what a nice picture of the bullfinch. I am jealous.

 

[bilM]

Very nice. what sort of camera and settings did you use?

Canon R5 100-500mm lens ISO 400 f/7.1 1/1000s @500mm

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[Kozikot]

They're a pain in the A*s, get a Dozen or so of them stripping all the New Buds on our Apple trees, every Year...prefer the Sparrows as they don't like Apples !

 

[bilM]

stripping all the New Buds on our Apple trees, every Year...prefer the Sparrows as they don't like Apples !

Never touch my apple trees or plum tree you must have the wrong type of apple trees.

 

[dulvil]

They're a pain in the A*s, get a Dozen or so of them stripping all the New Buds on our Apple trees, every Year...prefer the Sparrows as they don't like Apples !

You can always go to Tesco for your apples, mr. And mrs. Bullfinch cannot. Let them carry on

 

[Nirvanauk]

Canon R5 100-500mm lens ISO 400 f/7.1 1/1000s @500mm

Nice!

 

[TheBig1]

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[funflair]

Not as good as bilM but happy enough with the content.

Lesser Redpoll on the bottom perch and Goldfinch on top.

 

[Kozikot]

Never touch my apple trees or plum tree you must have the wrong type of apple trees.

Actually, her indoors just informed me they're Quince Apples...

 

[Ivory55]

I must admit to a bit of envy of people who get some of the more interesting birds in their garden.

 

[bilM]

Actually, her indoors just informed me they're Quince Apples...

What do you do with your apples I have two trees get about 30 apples of both trees and then feed them to the birds over winter.

 

[Kozikot]

What do you do with your apples I have two trees get about 30 apples of both trees and then feed them to the birds over winter.

Got 3 Quince Trees, One very mature, her indoors makes Jam,if the Birds miss some of the Buds, the birds are spoilt as got 3 Mature Morello Cherry Trees that the Birds strip every Year, Blackbirds seem to Love Cherries...

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[MR BLO]

My dad is the bird man of the village. Feeds the birds 3 or 4 times a day. Pheasants are his favourite. Sticks his head out the door at any time of day and gives a shout and about 30 arrive from the hedgerow in seconds. The local shoot must wonder where all of their quarry have gone. They have become so tame that they will happily walk into the house. We keep an acre of grass long so that they can nest quite close to the house safe from foxes, gulls and corvids. Every year the hens seem to parade their chicks off to dad to say thank you.

 

[Kozikot]

My dad is the bird man of the village. Feeds the birds 3 or 4 times a day. Pheasants are his favourite. Sticks his head out the door at any time of day and gives a shout and about 30 arrive from the hedgerow in seconds. The local shoot must wonder where all of their quarry have gone. They have become so tame that they will happily walk into the house. We keep an acre of grass long so that they can nest quite close to the house safe from foxes, gulls and corvids. Every year the hens seem to parade their chicks off to dad to say thank you.

Bottom of my Garden...Can hand feed 2 or 3 of them on Chicken Corn, we feed them every Day, so they just keep coming in bigger numbers...

 

[Ivory55]

How much does he spend on bird seed a year for that lot

 

[Mountain man]

Here’s our resident Pheasant.

 

[Mountain man]

Redpoll

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[Mountain man]

Nuthatch.

 

[Mountain man]

Crossbill not a great picture but you can make it out.

 

[TheAleMan]

Crossbill not a great picture but you can make it out.View attachment 464710View attachment 464711

Crossbill not a great picture but you can make it out.View attachment 464710View attachment 464711

Scottish or common

 

[TheAleMan]

Not as good as bilM but happy enough with the content.
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Lesser Redpoll on the bottom perch and Goldfinch on top.

Love the Redpolls Martin..don’t get to many down this way, just now and again we run into them.

 

[funflair]

Love the Redpolls Martin..don’t get to many down this way, just now and again we run into them.

Think this is the first year we have had them in the garden, loads of Goldfinches though and a few bullfinches, we have a barn owl that quarters the field behind us early morning and dusk and it lovely to sneak down and watch it, till the blo---y magpies come and bomb it anyway.

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[Mountain man]

Scottish or common

Scottish.

 

[Bustup15]

'got 3 Mature Morello Cherry Trees'.

Can you grow me a Morello please as I can't afford their prices

 

[funflair]

'got 3 Mature Morello Cherry Trees'.

Can you grow me a Morello please as I can't afford their prices

The pigeons pull all the buds off our MORELO cherry trees so we had to buy one instead