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Author Topic: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature  (Read 1535129 times)

CLKD

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6495 on: February 25, 2025, 10:11:39 AM »

 :thankyou:   DH is a Grandad, again  :D

As long as the blackbird doesn't help himself some will survive  :-\
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6496 on: March 03, 2025, 10:17:31 AM »

I've seen the 1st lambs - from a distance, they looked about 7 days old  :-*


Lots of honey bees this morning, I can hear a background buzz from the Winter flowering honeysuckle, heather plants, snowdrops and crocii  8) :-*
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6497 on: March 03, 2025, 09:02:27 PM »

1st hog seen scuttling around the garden on night camera, DH has put 2 cameras out this evening in different places 2 C what appears ......
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6498 on: March 04, 2025, 07:14:07 AM »

My first one arrived on Sunday evening. So hungry and devoured the Mr Johnsons hedgehog food. Cameras are really useful. I think I need some new ones this year as they seem to be triggering for no reason. I love watching them in the feeding stations.  Didn't have any in the hibernation boxes this year as far as I know. We did have to take two to rescue last year though. One didn't make it but the other was returned after treatment

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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6499 on: March 04, 2025, 09:18:23 AM »

Morning.  We don't lift the box lids until hogs are seen regularly.  1 was used last year, the other completely empty even of the straw that I had put inside  ::)

What's in the hedgehog food that you supply?
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6500 on: March 04, 2025, 11:00:04 AM »

Just spotted a pair of Blue Tits, checking out our nest box.

Fingers 🤞.
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6501 on: March 04, 2025, 12:44:10 PM »

Gt.  It's all happening out there  8) Sadly some of the spawn was frozen overnight  :-\
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6502 on: March 18, 2025, 06:04:04 PM »

Brimstone butterflies. 
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6503 on: March 18, 2025, 07:12:07 PM »

How's your froggies doing?
Cleaned the feeders today, birds not impressed at the feeders being gone  ;D
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6504 on: March 18, 2025, 07:35:24 PM »

No sign of tadpoles yet, some of the spawn was frosted: hopefully it will survive. I try to rotate the feeders so that some are soaking to get them clean. Robin has taken to following me around  :D hoping for mealworms: however, he then lets the starlings know and he buggas off!  ;D
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6505 on: April 01, 2025, 04:23:14 PM »

Brimstone butterfiles and 1 Peacock
Tadpoles hatching in the sunny areas of the ponds
Couple of blackbirds picking up meal worms for nestlings
Warm sunshine to sit in and watch the various insects on the plants  8)
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6506 on: April 01, 2025, 06:25:45 PM »

Lovely day here too,saw my first bumblebee 🐝 AND butterfly 🦋
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6507 on: April 01, 2025, 07:53:40 PM »

It's great : Feb and March are my fav months ........
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6508 on: April 27, 2025, 10:34:49 AM »

Well I'm fizzing,we had a collared dove nest in our holly bush,could see the eggs,3 of them,been watching the parents every day,they never flew off when we went out to the recycling bins (which is right next the nest) would just sit watching us,then the eggs hatched and last night on the cameras I saw a cat 😡😡😡 this morning,no birds nest empty 😢😢😢
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Re: Wild Birds and all things to do with Nature
« Reply #6509 on: April 27, 2025, 11:31:01 AM »

Nature in the raw sadly  :'(. R the parents upset?  There's often a lot of noise: crows, squirrels, jackdaws, jays, magpies will take eggs/nestlings  >:(.

Difficult to put wire over the holly - if it were smaller birds it might work to stop predation but collared doves are similar size to the above.
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