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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Rubbish garden list in the new digs so far, but great street list including a Herring Gull/LBB nesting colony on the factory roof across the way, Sparrowhawk, Bullfinch, Grey Heron, Raven and Buzzard. This morning, a dead Manx Shearwater was lying in the gutter near the post-box, a lost juv...
  2. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Juvs so far are Goldfinch, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Starling and Dunnock.
  3. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Only bird trapped and ringed under license so far this morning is a Dunnock; haven't seen one in the garden for yonks. Just goes to show what's lurking. Blackcap heard singing in some other lucky person's garden nearby. Also still getting Lesser Redpoll, Siskin, two pairs of Greenfinch, two...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    A very pale (but still brown) Redpoll in the garden with the Lessers this last couple weeks. Down in my logbook as Common/Lesser. If I ever get a free and calm day to put a net up to trap under license I will be measuring the heck out of any Redpolls I get! Also great sight to see a (m) Siskin...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Black-throated Thrush coming to an Aberdeen garden, excellent photos in the Rare Bird Information section. Spectacular bird!
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Windy and snowy yesterday in Colerane (not settling): 3 Woodpigeon, highest numbers seen here so far. 5 Rooks was also a good total but have had more. Magpie stuffing pieces of toast into the lawn and turfing over them is always hilarious! Today still very windy, but sunny!! Lesser Redpoll...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    13 Siskin last Sunday, the highest in months. 4 caught and ringed yesterday morning. Also a Raven honking and circling over the house on Saturday, and a Common Buzzard over yesterday. Finally, a Mistle Thrush in the tree yesterday morning (5th record since June 2012).
  8. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Robin box WILL go up tonight. I've been saying this all week.
  9. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    You may have a nest on the build nearby. The pairs have broken off from the family flock arrangement now and will be on territory.
  10. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Collared Dove x 2 and Dunnock this week. Both had not been seen for a good while :)
  11. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Ring resightings of two Starlings and a House Sparrow from 2012 through the telescope this morning. Good on them for surviving the cold snaps :)
  12. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    BGBW yesterday late morning: 7 starling, 9 feral pigeon, 5 chaffinch, 17 goldfinch, 5 redpoll, 5 siskin, 1 robin, 1 greenfinch, 2 coal tit, 1 rook, 2 blackbird, 1 blue tit, 2 house sparrow.
  13. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    PS massive congratulations to everyone on their hods of exciting species this week! Water Rail and Common Gull blow my mind, a lot of the rest are close to zero chance for my garden too, so green is my face.
  14. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    A tiny scattering of snow on the ground here in Northern Ireland. Garden ringing session today delivered excellent diversity of caught birds: 1 Starling, 1 House sparrow, 1 Robin, 1 (female) Blackcap, 2 Siskin, 3 Lesser Redpoll, 3 Goldfinch, 1 Great Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 4 Coal Tit, 7 Long-tailed...
  15. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Until the feathers 'repair' this will be a neat way of telling this individual from others. Sexes are alike on plumage I'm afraid, so no, it's just wear and tear.
  16. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    LTTs also top of the bill here. 6-7 of them this week, first seen since early autumn.
  17. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Chaffinches are a great species to watch. So snappy with each other. Highlight of my crap day in.
  18. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Bullfinch is top of my wish-list in terms of reasonable likelihood of a new species. Seen them within the neighbourhood and I have the right food for them, but no berries to keep them long...
  19. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Still no snow in NI. Keeps threatening for a big freeze then it dies back to mild. Great numbers today regardless: 30+ Goldfinch 10 Chaffinch 5 Greenfinch 3 Lesser Redpoll 3 Siskin 4 Blue Tit 4 Great Tit 2 Coal Tit 2 Blackbird House Sparrow 4 Starling Jackdaw on the fat feeder 2 Magpie Robin 5...
  20. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    House Sparrows virtually non-existant at the minute for us. More of a breeding season garden bird.
  21. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    35 Goldfinch, new record.
  22. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    First singing Dunnock today, Song Thrush sang two nights ago. Lesser Redpoll x4 still here and Siskins are BACK! Three of them. Record numbers this week of Chaffinch (12) and Greenfinch (7) also.
  23. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Are they reaching the feeders from a perch or LANDING on them? Do you use any ground feeders? If they're reaching from a perch move the feeders to a more distant hanging spot if possible so they can't be reached. If you have ground feeders remove them from sight! If it's a bird table make it...
  24. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Well done on Green Woodpecker! This winter certainly is as exciting so far as the BTO promised! The seven Waxwing returned for a spell this morning but were driven off by a Magpie before they could contemplate coming down to my water-trays.
  25. L

    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Well my gf suggested we put out food after all. Turned out to be a fantastic idea. TWO garden ticks - Black-headed Gull feeding on scraps, then seven Waxwing hanging out up our tree thanks to next-door's Cotoneaster berries. Wowsa.
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