Today was a blur of sparrows. The parents and fledglings barely left the garden, even when the jackdaws were shooed away, they went as far as the hedge motel and then returned to the caged feeder where the adults went behind the wire to prise out part of the nuts. The problem for the adult… Continue reading Packing them in…
Tag: woodpeckers
I can do this…
The process by which the fledglings learn to feed themselves is clearly a tricky one and today the garden was filled with groups of birds at different stages in the learning. A family of sparrows, possibly two families, had a clutch of youngsters, not long out of the nest to judge by their plumage and… Continue reading I can do this…
If there’s a rustle in the hedgerow…
The snow-in-summer has grown both outwards, so that it’s curving about the closest roses, and upwards with longer stalks holding the delicate white daisylike flowers. However, now the foraging sparrows really are invisible, bar a thrashing and waving of the foliage, until they emerge abruptly at the edge of the clump and fall down to… Continue reading If there’s a rustle in the hedgerow…
A moment of opportunity…
The fat block was the main source of attraction today. I’ll need to see if the butcher has some suet. Three woodpeckers came, at one time or another, tucking their tails up to steady the wireblock. They are beautiful, but one valuable thing has been the little gaps between the bigger birds, when a bluetit… Continue reading A moment of opportunity…
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