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[Hurdity]

How great that you managed to get it out Hurdity. Is there any way you could make the cover foolproof? We had to cover ours after starlings kept falling in.

Taz x

Haha it's just happened again! Thought I could hear it scratching about this morning. This time after escaping from the chimney into our room it battered itself on a pot of primroses on the windowsill and refused to fly out so B managed to grab hold of it and it gave a loud jackdaw squawk and he chucked it out of the window and off it flew! Trying to show youngest son what to do when we're away - he said: " Can't I just leave it there to die"!! Charming - joking of course I hope. The pot has a cover - a clay hood thing but there is a small gap. Jackdaws are very determined. Some other pots around have a wire netting sort of cover but they're a bit ugly to look at. It only happens at this time of year.

Hurdity x

[Taz2]

I think, ugly or not, you need to get the wire round it otherwise it will just happen again. It's only because they are looking for somewhere to nest and even if this one gives up there will be others who might just take a fancy to your chimney!  I have a wire one - not the prettiest of things but very effective. We put ours up after we came home after a weeks break to find a dead one in the lounge. The poor thing had made so many frantic attempts to escape - it was pitiful to see.

Taz x

[honeybun]

I spotted a bird of prey on a grass verge yesterday. I had not seen one like it before. I described it to OH. He said it sounded like a red kite.

I have had a Google and it was. Beautiful bird. I did not know we had them in our area but I will be watching out for another.

Quite chuffed I spotted it sitting there. It was eating something. The sparrow hawks like the grass verge and I often see them. We also have 4 buzzards that circle round the hills behind us.

Honeyb
X

[CLKD]

We have red kites in Northants and across Cambs now.

Very cold today, the wild birds are clearing the live mealworm feeders really fast.  Snow is in the hedgerows: waiting for more 

[Limpy]

" Jackdaws are very determined. Some other pots around have a wire netting sort of cover but they're a bit ugly to look at. It only happens at this time of year"
 
Hurdity it would be better to get the chimney covered. One year a couple of birds got in our chimney and built a nest.
The first we knew of it was when the fire wouldn't draw and smoke billowed out into the room. No problem we thought, get the sweep. It took him ages to remove the nest material (2 bin bags).  Also, some eggs had been laid, a horrible situation, chicks were too young to survive.

[Blue]

  Taz  Osprey doesn't come into garden, no fish left in pond thanks to cats and heron

But I can see them from my sitting room window sometimes, Along with sparrowhawk that nicks my little birds, occasional kestral, and our pair of buzzards. 

Last year I'm convinced I saw a pair of sea eagles, just lazily circling around the house and trees. OH says I was seeing things, but I had a chat with a RSPB man and he says I was prob right. There were some released not far from here.

[CLKD]

Rutland Water is the place to see ospreys too!

[Rowan]

For Taz

http://www.express.co.uk/news/science-technology/390253/Billions-of-bugs-to-erupt-from-underground-lair-for-the-first-time-in-17-years

 

[Blue]

Finally saw osprey this morning.

Tuffty seems to be living in the trees down the road from the house, we've seen him/her a few times now.

Swans are thinking of nesting.

[CLKD]

A male blackbird is singing his socks off in the pouring rain 

[CLKD]

Now the blackbird is shrieking outside this window - he can see me and his beak is empty 

[Firewalker50]

My boyfriend/OH has fished several times at Rutland and talked about the Osprey(s).

The goldfinches are back - yay!  Not as many as last year, but it is a start.
We have a family of blackbirds here every year - not sure if it is the same ones or the new generations but what a noise the dad makes at night checking everyone is safe before bed.

Fx

[CLKD]

Great tit is 'sawing' in a tree close by and a thrush is singing 

[Limpy]

Seen swallows here today

[ladybug50]

We got swallows too..    
Great sight!