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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 10:15:36 GMT
Sat watching the birds in my garden We only get sparrows and a robin at home, with an occasional visit from long tail tits. When we're on the boat we get a huge array of birds using exactly the same selection of feeds. Nuthatch, woodpecker, bullfinch, all the usual tits, greenfinch, and many others. It's strange how 'normality' is a movable feast. Suppose that's a lesson for life  Rog ETA just looked it up and apparently it's a zephyr of long tailed tits. Can you tell I'm just sat waiting to go to work  |
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Post by aquarat on Nov 9, 2017 10:47:53 GMT
Sat watching the birds in my garden We only get sparrows and a robin at home, with an occasional visit from long tail tits. When we're on the boat we get a huge array of birds using exactly the same selection of feeds. Nuthatch, woodpecker, bullfinch, all the usual tits, greenfinch, and many others. It's strange how 'normality' is a movable feast. Suppose that's a lesson for life Rog ETA just looked it up and apparently it's a zephyr of long tailed tits. Can you tell I'm just sat waiting to go to work Just feeding the robin and loads of zephyrs around, noisy buggers! Kingfisher and green woodpecker and saw a barn owl last night. Can you tell I'm waiting for pop Master to finish before cruising? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2017 10:53:10 GMT
Jane saw a barn owl as she came home from work on Saturday night, the lucky sod. Magnificent birds, and wonderful to watch. Jane's also a Pop Master fan. Personally I'd rather have ear ache Rog |
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Nov 9, 2017 11:00:44 GMT
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Post by aquarat on Nov 9, 2017 11:00:44 GMT
Jane saw a barn owl as she came home from work on Saturday night, the lucky sod. Magnificent birds, and wonderful to watch. Jane's also a Pop Master fan. Personally I'd rather have ear ache Rog We have a boater mate in norbury with a barn owl he takes everywhere with him, goes down a storm down the pub, saw a boat with two Ger falcons on the roof the other day, magnificent |
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Post by bills on Nov 9, 2017 11:37:16 GMT
Jane saw a barn owl as she came home from work on Saturday night, the lucky sod. Magnificent birds, and wonderful to watch. Apparently they are thick as mince. |
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Post by aquarat on Nov 9, 2017 11:49:00 GMT
You can also sit by the road and watch buses going past. Different makes of bus (Volvo, Scania, Mercedes), different companies, different paintwork. Each to their own! My mrs calls me merecat cos I pop my head up every time a boat comes past. You stick with Eddie Stobart mate, enjoy |
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Post by Jim on Nov 9, 2017 14:47:29 GMT
You can also sit by the road and watch buses going past. Different makes of bus (Volvo, Scania, Mercedes), different companies, different paintwork. Do the wheels go round and round? For how long? |
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Post by patty on Nov 9, 2017 14:49:03 GMT
Jane saw a barn owl as she came home from work on Saturday night, the lucky sod. Magnificent birds, and wonderful to watch. Apparently they are thick as mince. Does this mean they are not very intelligent?... How do these peeps sus out intelligence in birds... |
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Post by patty on Nov 9, 2017 14:52:59 GMT
You can also sit by the road and watch buses going past. Different makes of bus (Volvo, Scania, Mercedes), different companies, different paintwork. I prefer to sit and watch the birds from top of Worms Head....there are the gulls and then there are the sparrow hawks and buzzards To-day my whole life flashed in front of me when the idiot whose car I was in decided to go into confrontational mode over what he perceived to be his right of way......yep I lost it and shrieked at him...Im still shaking...I prefer not to see that very often.... |
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Post by quaysider on Nov 10, 2017 18:15:37 GMT
We (well Andy) feeds the birds... he buys specific seeds to get specific birds...Niga (however you spell it) for something I can't remember - the squirells, mice, shrews and pigeons however DON'T seem all that fussy to me.
In fact the "squirell proof" feeders are anything but!
I CANT spell Squirrels
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Post by patty on Nov 10, 2017 21:17:35 GMT
Dunno about these Niga seeds..the feeders are b..... expensive as are the seeds but don't seem to get any special birds for buying them
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Post by Jim on Nov 10, 2017 22:20:54 GMT
Dunno about these Niga seeds..the feeders are b..... expensive as are the seeds but don't seem to get any special birds for buying them We get a small flock of goldfinches on the Niger seed. Pretty little things. Get a nuthatch visiting, no long tail tits yet. Just great,coal and blue tits. |
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Post by thebfg on Nov 11, 2017 1:57:11 GMT
Dunno about these Niga seeds..the feeders are b..... expensive as are the seeds but don't seem to get any special birds for buying them We get a small flock of goldfinches on the Niger seed. Pretty little things. Get a nuthatch visiting, no long tail tits yet. Just great,coal and blue tits. I like tits |
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Post by quaysider on Nov 11, 2017 7:31:18 GMT
We get a small flock of goldfinches on the Niger seed. Pretty little things. Get a nuthatch visiting, no long tail tits yet. Just great,coal and blue tits. are we back to Nigella again? Thems the ones - Goldfinches I mean.... we have a lot of them. We've also got a woodpecker (steady) - he's not the brightest fella though as he keeps "practising" on the metal bracket at the top of a telegraph pole - he must have one hell of a headache. |
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Post by patty on Nov 11, 2017 7:41:07 GMT
Do get woodpeckers..in fact this year we had the youngsters brought out..4 altogether which was lovely to see and theres always the robin that watches all my work outside..
We do have buzzards and other birds of prey but Im not so good at working out whose what with them..
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