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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    An entertaining morning watching dozens of baby sparrows bowling over parents in their eagerness for food,
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Odd feeders at one of the fatballs today - a Magpie and a Jay. Both looking really out of place.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Having lost a feeder to a squirrel, which I previously tolerated, I started using a low power and innacurate air pistol on him. On the rare occasions when the slug hit him it might have stung him without causing injury and his visits are now much less frequent and fleeting.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Can also sympathise re badgers. Virtually put an end to mowing since it would likely break the mower, or my ankle! Then the foxes got in on the act............
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    When I was into aviculture many years ago a friend had a Silver Pheasant in his aviary. It was a holy terror and always launched a fierce attack (protecting his females?) when he went into the flight area. It caused him so much injury that he started carrying a broom to fend it off whenever he...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Lots of Starlings here too. Threw out some bread yesterday and just five minutes later I couldn't see most of the lawn as well over 100 of them appeared from nowhere.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    I have only ever seen one Jay in my garden. He had a liking for fatballs so I probably offended him when I stopped offering them in August.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    I wonder if the dozens of house sparrows that live and breed in my garden are the reason why I never see any finches of any type?
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Only ever see a solitary Jay here. He is keen on fatballs for some reason and frequently manages to unhook them and fly off with them.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Plenty of House Sparrows living in my front hedge where they have been for many years. Unbelievable din from them at dusk (probably dawn too). My Robin seems to have disappeared - probably lost a fight with a rival.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    The blackbirds (and a robin) are driving me mad the last couple of days. Every time I walk up to the kitchen sink there's at least one of them jumps onto the windowsill asking for more raisins. Must have been mugged this way at least a dozen times so far today. Why catch flies (plenty) when...
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Just had a laugh at around a dozen juvenile starlings chasing each other nose to tail round the birdbath. Refill it, so a pair of grotesquely large wood pigeons sit there, displacing most of the water!
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Juvenile Magpie almost became supper for a fox cub last night. Saved by inexperience on both sides.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Come round here and you might. One of the resident Collared Doves sometimes messes up his 'Woohoo' to the extent that he sounds just like a cuckoo. He's so impressed with himself he goes on repeating it.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Great entertainment recently from a Jay who has become partial to the fatballs without acquiring enough skill. At least he's not bothering other birds while he's busy there.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    While I totally support the petition and happy to provide my name and email address, I will not supply my postal address with it to someone unknown on the internet. Especially on a non-secure site. Sorry.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Similar problem here. All trees removed from their garden when they moved in. Hedges trimmed to sterile appearance, regardless of whether they're occupied. Two stinky tom cats added.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Very quiet here too, except for juvenile Starlings !
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Not what you mean at all, but there were a pair of ducks on my lawn yesterday. First time ever in many decades living here (at least five miles from fresh water). Mallardjusted ducks? Sorry.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    They are still around ! Activity at my feeders had dwindled to next to nothing over the past couple of weeks but the dreary weather today must have reduced the supply of bugs because they're busy again.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Most of my birds appear to be feeding elsewhere. Only regulars are the Robin, always on the windowsill when I draw back the curtains, and the Blackbirds who saunter along later. All after the raisins.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Those "poor House Sparrows" are becoming quite a pest in my garden, eating around 90% of all the food I put out and bullying the tits and other small birds to the point where many seem to have gone elsewhere. Rapidly becoming about as welcome as a cat.
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Jay looking quite ridiculous going to great lengths to feed from a fatball !
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Probably commonplace for many but I was delighted to see a pair of Wagtails on the feeders earlier (until those ***** sparrows bullied them off!)
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    Very busy at the bird feeder today!

    Large Blackbird family seem to have abandoned me after several years feeding raisins from the windowsill. Just one female making infrequent visits now. Most days there's a Jay making attempts at the peanut/fatball feeders. He looks quite embarrassed to be seen there.
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