Geoffrey Settle Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Bill has just reminded me that this weekend it's the great garden bird watch. How many birds of the feathered type can you spot in one hour in your garden? http://www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch/ I remember spending an hour in the cold last year spotting NOTHING - I thought that they had vanished off the face of the earth. But there was simply nothing in my garden for them to eat. Since then we have had nuts etc out and more recently sunflower seeds, which they love. So my count must increase Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 I've just spotted the wife outside; so there's the first bird of the day in my garden! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 While my wife was filling up the bird feeder I spotted a couple of blue tits, but then it is very cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Nice to see a thread like this. Nothing in my garden today, but had a robin as a partner whilst pruning yesterday. Happy days. Was going to post that there was great something or other wandering around in the cold yesterday, but in view of Bill's language thread, I'll not bother. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 First thing this morning - Robin, Dunnock, blue tit's, coal tit,s cock blackbird and Walter our resident woodpidgeon who hoovers up after the 'little uns' have been on the feeder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Baz and Wolfie... Geoff did day 'birds of the feathered type' Well nothing so far for me in the garden but then we only have a back yard (and a dog) and a very small front garden. There have been 5 woodpigeons in the tree opposite ours though who are regular daily visitors for the berries and I spotted a blackbird on the neighbours wall. Do they count if they weren't actually in MY 'garden' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Is this what they call "tweeting"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Baz and Wolfie... Geoff did day 'birds of the feathered type' Don't Blue tits have feathers then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Yes.. but I read yours straight after Baz's and I thought I you meant that ... errr never mind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P J Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 I once had a shag in the back garden. Dizzy feel free to change that to cormorant if you feel it proper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 that is acceptable PJ as I know what a shag is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P J Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Now thats a sentence I never expected to hear today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 I know a bit about wild-life PJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Is this what they call "tweeting"? 'Twitching' obs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 well in my back yard we had two magpies. they were nicking the cat food that the wife had put out for the feral cat she has been feeding for the last five years or so. if your talking just down the road by about a hundred yards or so. then there were six swans, two canada geese, about three dozen ducks, four water-hens, three moor-hens and few dozen or so gulls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 Been out gardening most of the day. Not seen a single bird ( or even a............) Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagle Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 9.30 - 10.30am 13 House sparrows 2 Dunnocks 3 Robins 4 Blackbirds 8 Long Tailed Tits 2 Blue Tits (building) 1 Great Tit 1 Chaffinch 2 Pigeons 1 Wren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 I didn't know that it is bird counting weekend 'till I just read it here (21:07). I'll nip out now and have a gander(well there's 1). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted January 30, 2011 Report Share Posted January 30, 2011 I didn't know that it is bird counting weekend 'till I just read it here (21:07). I'll nip out now and have a gander(well there's 1). Don't tell me - A Nightingale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Watch out for low flying birds - you might have to duck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 at that time it was either an owl or a bat. mind you it could be just a very large moth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Settle Posted January 31, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Great news sid it's the year of the bat.... http://www.yearofthebat.org/ Read about other nature issues via the Warrington Nature Conservation link newsletters.. http://www.warringtonmarket.co.uk/Leisureandculture/Conservation/wncf.aspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Bats are great... every year at dusk we get little pipistrelle bats flying round here. They swoop along the backs of the houses and in and out of the recesses right up past our back door upto the bedroon window and round and round. They come withing a few inches of us if we stand there. I've always tried to get a photo of them but they are too small and far too quick. Amazing little things and so very cute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Saw two lesser spotted pot hole fillers this morning - does that count?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted January 31, 2011 Report Share Posted January 31, 2011 Were they the yellow coated ones with the blue crest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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