Author Topic: Exited! (Read 2320 times)

waddy · « **on:** February 08, 2014, 03:39:29 pm »

I have just seen my first ever bullfinch! It was on our peanut feeder.

Helen

doganjo · « **Reply #1 on:** February 08, 2014, 03:49:32 pm »

Have you done the Great British Bird Watch? I think the RSPB still want reports.

waddy · « **Reply #2 on:** February 08, 2014, 03:57:30 pm »

The only reasonably dry part of the birdwatch weekend was the only chance we had to go and collect and chop logs. The rest of the time the birds were mostly in hiding from the torrential rain. I am surprised they are managing to hang on to the feeder at all in this wind! We are going through peanuts and fat balls by the sack load!

Carse Goodlifers · « **Reply #3 on:** February 09, 2014, 05:28:37 pm »

Isn't it great when something unusual comes to the bird feeder.
We got excited when we got a Goldfinch the other week on the niger seed feeder.

We regularly get the usual Great, Blue and Coal tits as well as sparrows, Dunocks, robins and blackbirds.
But we also get 2 great spotted woodpeckers and about 15 long tailed tits.
We have also been visited by the sparrow hawk hald a dozen times (that I've seen) trying to get a meal.

Bramblecot · « **Reply #4 on:** February 10, 2014, 09:51:32 am »

Beautiful birds, I know how you feel

. Years ago they were killed by farmers and fruit growers because they peck the buds from the fruit trees. They nest in our overgrown blackthorn hedges and I love them

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waterbuffalofarmer · « **Reply #5 on:** June 09, 2014, 10:39:24 am »

They are beautiful birds, but be aware they ruin orchards and the like. I had a whole flock of them in 2011 and they ruined my tomato harvest. Everywhere there were tomatoes with holes in them.