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[CLKD]

 

Tawnys R so pretty, well all owls are with their different facial patterns.   My fav is the Canadian Grey .........

[Two hoots]

I had a close encounter with a Tawny Owl last night. It swooped down on something in the field that i was walking next too. My dog's face was a picture, she was like "what the f..k was that?" 

Oh you lucky thing, my favourite 

[Cazikins]

They are lovely. Beautiful markings underneath and their real name of Cockchafer should give you a giggle 🤣

Taz x

I forgot they are called Cockchafer Taz. Don't think I'd ever get that close to one to see its undercarriage. xx

[CLKD]

I've waiting until now to report: in case anyone was eating : the SPIDER 

I take a glass of chocolate milk to bed.  Last night I swallowed half with my tablets, then in the early hours, another few sips. When I picked up the glass at 9.30 guess what was lurking    ......... the SPIDER : thank goodness I hadn't drained the milk 

[jaypo]

Aww geeze clkd,feel nauseas now 
Does anyone know how to keep crows off bird feeders,bar shooting them,they are so agile,hanging upside down off them,emptying them 

[Two hoots]

I've waiting until now to report: in case anyone was eating : the SPIDER 

I take a glass of chocolate milk to bed.  Last night I swallowed half with my tablets, then in the early hours, another few sips. When I picked up the glass at 9.30 guess what was lurking    ......... the SPIDER : thank goodness I hadn't drained the milk 

 

[CLKD]

 

crows have to eat too  - starlings are the problem here  but I take the flapping of T-towel from the sink in the kitchen part of my exerciser regime 

[jaypo]

I know they've to eat but they EMPTY the feeders in minutes and all the poor little birds don't get very much 

[CLKD]

Same with starlings ........ I spent a lot of the day going 'shhhoooo' in a loud voice 

[Taz2]

Aww geeze clkd,feel nauseas now 
Does anyone know how to keep crows off bird feeders,bar shooting them,they are so agile,hanging upside down off them,emptying them 

Our crows don't have much success on the feeders - they are far too big - and feed mostly at the bird table. What do you feed as I thought crows aren't too good with seed? Our jackdaws will have a go though.

Taz x

[Taz2]

Same with starlings ........ I spent a lot of the day going 'shhhoooo' in a loud voice 

Please encourage the starlings - they are on the red list and need all of the help they can get. We've just constructed the usual pen for when they bring their young. Usually the first time arrives on the 13th May but as spring is earlier this year we thought we'd be ready for the influx! https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/birds/thrushes-chats-flycatchers-starling-dipper-and-wren/starling

Taz x

[jaypo]

I feed sunflower hearts,it's definitely the little birds favourite,we have one of those iron hook hangers which is screwed to a big tree,so they swing freely but these crows have figured out how to cling on to them,I've already moved it as before it was on a tree next to a fence and they just used to jump from the fence onto the feeders but now they've been moved they have figured how land on them from nowhere,one bird does it then spills the seeds all over the ground and the rest come and eat them all,very clever but still infuriating

[CLKD]

probably jackdaws?  We have the odd large corvid here but they don't cling, the magpie visits but is soon scared away.  The larger bird shake the feeders to encourage the others 

[CLKD]

I put a coffee mat over the glass last night even though I had put said SPIDER outdoors 

Half a blue egg shell on the path ? blackbird ?

[jaypo]

Our squirrel is getting braver and braver,he was sitting on a fence post,only maybe 4 foot high,looking down at my two little dogs who were both on their hind legs looking at him,he couldn't have given a stuff