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Author Topic: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature  (Read 1113770 times)

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4305 on: January 23, 2019, 10:43:30 AM »
He hasn't got to tapping on the window 'asking' for warm water yet?
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4306 on: January 23, 2019, 01:04:27 PM »
Oh you get sung at then  ;D .........

Birds fed
Water on the bowls broken
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4307 on: January 27, 2019, 06:06:23 PM »
Anyone do the bird watch today?  We had lots of gold-finches on 5 feeders, as well as a robin singing at me through the window as the meal worm tray was empty  ::)
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4308 on: January 28, 2019, 08:25:13 PM »
Yes we did it - both my husband and I on separate parts of our land/garden. Numbers and species were down on last year due to the very strong wind but I had our visiting flock of long-tailed tits ( 7 of them) during my hour and two species that I haven't recorded on the Birdwatch before - wood pigeon ( which balances in an ungainly fashion on the mixed seed feeder tray - I bought a bigger one to catch more of the seed so the pigeon has worked out how to feed from there!) Also a pied wagtail - we often have them around the place but not on my Big Garden Birdwatch patch! No chaffinches, no blue, great or coal tits this year for my hour - in fact there are hardly any of these around at all this winter. Very few sparrows - are huge flock is down to about 5 - and I only saw 3 feeding during my hour....

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4309 on: January 28, 2019, 08:26:08 PM »
We had 7 pied wagtails a few years ago when it was very cold.  I noticed 1 yesterday  :) bopping about.
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4310 on: February 15, 2019, 02:12:13 PM »
Bees.  Honey Bees.  Lots of  :)  8).   We have Winter flowering honeysuckle and a sweet box in flower as well as snowdrops which they are loving. 
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4311 on: February 20, 2019, 11:15:50 AM »
That's lovely, I noticed blue tits investigating the one in Mum's garden 2 weeks ago.  That will be 4 years on the row that it has been used :-)
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4312 on: February 22, 2019, 04:46:32 PM »
Red Admiral butterfly at 11.45 a.m. on the Winter flowering honeysuckle  :-*

Large bumble bees in the snowdrops  8)

Birds singing.  It's so noisy out there  ;D
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4313 on: February 25, 2019, 05:05:03 PM »
Brimstone butterflies
Frogs mating
Birds singing
Bees everywhere ......
Scent wafting across the garden
A large wasp searching for a nesting site
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4314 on: February 27, 2019, 06:40:36 PM »
OK Girls - underneath the bird feeders is a lump of what looks like car fur  :o.  Black.  Thick.  Any ideas, presumably a fungus ........ different to the mould that I usually see where the birds haven't cleared up. 

Anyone have knowledge of fungi ?
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4315 on: February 27, 2019, 07:26:06 PM »
I get that under the sunflower heart feeder. Looks like black fur. I've never tried to find out what type of mould it is though.

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4316 on: February 28, 2019, 07:18:01 PM »
Looked on line but so far haven't found out ........
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4317 on: March 01, 2019, 11:41:57 AM »
Frogs spawn  :ola:  Happy St David's Day  ;D
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4318 on: March 01, 2019, 05:04:10 PM »
Happy Frogspawn Day CLKD. Will it survive next week's forecast frosts? 🤔

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #4319 on: March 01, 2019, 05:36:52 PM »
Probably.  It survived Beast from the East last year as we cover the water when it's very cold.

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