10 minutes at the bird feeders

[Muscat]

It has been hammering down with rain just about all day but the birds still get hungry, these have been taken through the dining room window and rain, images possibly soft as posted via PB.

One very peed off greenfinch


Now where did I put the soap


Still can't find the damned soap

[briansquibb]

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Oh I feel for the the poor goldfinch

[SamFisher]

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Poor wee things
Our Goldies eat nothing but nyjer seeds

Mike

[hhcanon]

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Ive got a garden full of tits but no goldfinches. Good work..they do look bedragled

[mikep]

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Ive got a garden full of tits but no goldfinches.

I'm saying nothing.

[hhcanon]

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I'm saying nothing.

Thats just the neighbours!

[Hereford_EOS2]

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Rain, rain and more rain.
Great series.
I have 7 goldfinches, 2 greenfinches (pair), a robin, 2 collared doves (pair), a wood pigeon, and lots of sparrows on my feeders.

[hhcanon]

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Rain, rain and more rain.
Great series.
I have 7 goldfinches, 2 greenfinches (pair), a robin, 2 collared doves (pair), a wood pigeon, and lots of sparrows on my feeders.

Stephen, I live in the woods so to speak, I just dont consistently, get that number of birds

[briansquibb]

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Blue tits, great tits, long tailed tits, green finches, chaffinches, robins, pheasants, starlings, blackbirds, doves, pidgeons, woodpeckers and more on a busy day.

Probably something to do with the feeders I have in the garden:)

[Muscat]

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Can't beat Brian but this afternoon we had 7 goldfinches, 4 green finches, 3 pair of chaffinches, a wren, loads of sparrows, starlings, the normal pair of collard doves a single pigeon blackbirds and sitting in the tree looking on a green woodpecker. It is amazing what you can get in the grade when you put up a load of feeders with a variety of different food in them.

[secondintime]

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Blue tits, great tits, long tailed tits, green finches, chaffinches, robins, pheasants, starlings, blackbirds, doves, pidgeons, woodpeckers and more on a busy day.

Probably something to do with the feeders I have in the garden:)

What feeders and feed are you using? I only get starlings and sparrows. Seen a greenfinch twice and that's it.

[briansquibb]

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What feeders and feed are you using? I only get starlings and sparrows. Seen a greenfinch twice and that's it.

Sunflower seed, niger, peanuts and mixed seeds for the floor feeders (like the chaffinch, robin etc)

I do live out in the countryside, with fields, hedges and trees so it is pretty ideal for birds

The most common birds for me are blue and great tits

[Muscat]

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Peter for what it is worth I live on the edge of a large housing estate with fields and a small wood about a 100mm from the house, we use a mix of niger seeds, crushed sunflower and corn with fat balls during the hard weather. It took about 3 years for the birds to buid up in numbers and we have 6 feeders in 2 feeding stations. The birds make enough mess with the seed in the highlevel feeders that the ground feeds get lots of food, I also will throw out handfulls of sultanas and mealworms periodically for the ground feeders.

[mwphoto]

Re: 10 minutes at the bird feeders

Blue tits, great tits, long tailed tits, green finches, chaffinches, robins, pheasants, starlings, blackbirds, doves, pidgeons, woodpeckers and more on a busy day.

Probably something to do with the feeders I have in the garden:)

All of the above plus siskin, redpoll, brambling, house and tree sparrow, chiffchaff, yellowhammer coal tit etc - and the odd sparrowhawk coming in to the 'buffet bar'! It's a hard life!

[Muscat]

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and the odd sparrowhawk coming in to the 'buffet bar'! It's a hard life!

What no cats?