Garden Birds

[showman]

Have been keeping the feeding station well topped up,and it's located in a position where I can sit in the kitchen and watch the birds comings and goings. Have noticed the lack visitors to the station, which is usually pretty busy ! Sparrows are the most common, Starlings....none, Blue Tits....literally 1 or 2, Robin....1 (normal), Chaffinch....0, Magpie.....1or2, Wagtails....0. Is it just here, or are others noticing a drop in numbers ?

[greenbar]

2robins in the garden,a couple blue tits,a few blackies,like watching the robins,chasing each other must be 2males.

[Mossgiel]

Have been keeping the feeding station well topped up,and it's located in a position where I can sit in the kitchen and watch the birds comings and goings. Have noticed the lack visitors to the station, which is usually pretty busy ! Sparrows are the most common, Starlings....none, Blue Tits....literally 1 or 2, Robin....1 (normal), Chaffinch....0, Magpie.....1or2, Wagtails....0. Is it just here, or are others noticing a drop in numbers ?

 

 

Pleased to say quite a few going about this morning - blackbirds,blue tits, chaffinch, robin, gold finch and lots of magpies.

Never seem to see song thrushes now ?

[showman]

Pleased to say quite a few going about this morning - blackbirds,blue tits, chaffinch, robin, gold finch and lots of magpies.

Never seem to see song thrushes now ?

 

No Blackbirds or Goldfinches, and very rare to see a Thrush at any time of the year !

[lanarkshire lad]

I've stopped feeding them for the time being it was costing me a fkn fortune I have four feeders two with sunflower hearts and two with niger seed I was getting flocks of at least 70 to 80 goldfinches at at a time plus a few greenfinches chaffys great tits coal tits plus the usual blue tits plus street pigeons by the dozen which were hoovering up the seeds that the wee birds were dropping fkn menace they street pigeons.

[showman]

I've stopped feeding them for the time being it was costing me a fkn fortune I have four feeders two with sunflower hearts and two with niger seed I was getting flocks of at least 70 to 80 goldfinches at at a time plus a few greenfinches chaffys great tits coal tits plus the usual blue tits plus street pigeons by the dozen which were hoovering up the seeds that the wee birds were dropping fkn menace they street pigeons.

 

Wow , that's a great collection of 'Goldies' !

[Guest johnhunter]

Wow , that's a great collection of 'Goldies' !

if you want goldies and siskins get niger feeders

[showman]

if you want goldies and siskins get niger feeders

 

Already have them !

[Kyleakin Lofts]

Around 4 robins in the garden, wrens, blackbirds, thrushes mistle I think, chaffinches, blue tits, greenfinches? and of course the usual magpies and jackdaws. Occasionally the odd pheasant comes in as well.

Edited November 19, 2016 by Kyleakin Lofts

[gulkie]

Who was judging today ?

ma wee burds are awe deed wae the Hawks .

[paddymac]

I have the company of a little robin about the lofts most days. I used to have a lot of black birds visit but they have all gone over the past few years.

[We man]

Always had plenty of wild birds about the back garden even the Woodpeckers feeding at the kitchen window but very few birds about this year.

[Cliftonlad]

Have loads of crows and other day saw 8 magpies havin a scape in the trees next to my

Loft but at least no more BOP hanging around they have sorted that out

[REDROCKET]

Blue tits great tits street ears black birds crows magpies wrens wood pigeons starlings the odd visit from the wood pecker and the sparrow hawk I've even had the sea gulls steeling my fish from the pond in the past I always have a good selection of food out for them canny beat sitting watching them all taking their turn at the dinner table as well as the feeders and table I scatter some grain and meal worm on the ground for the wrens and robins

[REDROCKET]

Out of curiosity who knows what the smallest bird in Europe is.

[sandy25]

Used to be accepted that it was the wren troglodytes troglodytes but thats not true its the ..........

GOLDCREST

all the best

sandy

[lanarkshire lad]

Out of curiosity who knows what the smallest bird in Europe is.

Goldcrest.

[sandy25]

Also for the curious the smallest bird in the world is a BEE HUMMINGBIRD

all the best

sandy

[REDROCKET]

Full of info this place tonight lol I always thought it was the wren until last X as holidays when I was sheltering under the conifers at our yard and this little thing started dancing about the branches only a few feet away from me not a bit scared at all promoting me to look it up and it was the gold crest the yard is surrounded by trees and is a safe ish haven for the birds amongst many we get the gold crest from Europe and the swallow from Africa quite amazing in my opinion.

[showman]

Blue tits great tits street ears black birds crows magpies wrens wood pigeons starlings the odd visit from the wood pecker and the sparrow hawk I've even had the sea gulls steeling my fish from the pond in the past I always have a good selection of food out for them canny beat sitting watching them all taking their turn at the dinner table as well as the feeders and table I scatter some grain and meal worm on the ground for the wrens and robins

 

A Woodpecker in the garden.....WOW Brilliant !!

[lanarkshire lad]

A Woodpecker in the garden.....WOW Brilliant !!

I've had siskens redpols had a brambling last year and also a great spotted woodpecker and by the way there were nightjars at the Douglas support near shawhead before they put the new road through it I don't know if they are still there.

[Big Davie]

Seen a thrush in a hawthorn tree today in the garden, that's the first for umpteen years, got a robin that's always there but otherwise a couple of blackies, stuckies, sparras, craws, jackdaws, magpies, cushies, and seagulls, and of course the sparrow hawk at times

[lanarkshire lad]

Seen a thrush in a hawthorn tree today in the garden, that's the first for umpteen years, got a robin that's always there but otherwise a couple of blackies, stuckies, sparras, craws, jackdaws, magpies, cushies, and seagulls, and of course the sparrow hawk at times

need to get yourself a couple of feeders Davie one for sunflower hearts and one for niger seed and you'll get the wee birds in there droves.

[William Reid]

expletive remove if you want trouble at your loft put feeding out and you would be as well as ringing the dinner bell

[Kyleakin Lofts]

A Woodpecker in the garden.....WOW Brilliant !!

 

Woodpecker, ring neck doves and wood pigeons in the woods in my neighbours garden. The doves sometimes come into mine. There are of course the sparrowhawks as well.