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Post by tinkerbell on Feb 2, 2012 23:51:25 GMT 1
Watching the birds feeding today and they were joined by 2 red squirrels,which had a high old time chasing each other through the branches and up and down the trees.Apparently tis the mating season.Put some walnuts out for them as a treat.
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Post by Ali on Feb 3, 2012 10:29:18 GMT 1
Lovely  Come to think of it I've never seen a squirrel of any colour up here. Putting water out at the moment is a trial isn't it - fresh in the morning, frozen by lunchtime! |
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Post by tinkerbell on Feb 3, 2012 17:18:27 GMT 1
Sure is-and so many birds come to drink.Lots down today,but why do the blackbirds spend so much time fighting?  |
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Post by Ali on Feb 3, 2012 17:54:27 GMT 1
It's too early for the blackbirds to be mating I'd have thought but they're territorial generally. They'll be worse from March onwards. Good prompt - must put out some apples for them, can't see there'll be many worms coming up at the mo, the ground is like granite. Fli yelled at me in the kitchen today excitedly pointing at the kitchen window and there was a Sparrow Hawk sat on one of the tables outside taking a gander at the sparrows and tits at the bird table. I didn't get chance for a photo - one look at me and it disparued pdq but here's somebody elses:  |
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Post by Madame Moorhen on Feb 5, 2012 8:24:59 GMT 1
The birds are enjoying the rubbery apples I cut in half and put outside for them. I am putting out walnuts too which disappear very quickly but I think it may be the crows and magpies taking them. Haven't seen a squirrel for about a week now! (They live here in the garden).
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2012 9:08:30 GMT 1
Saw a magpie nest-building yesterday, without the slightest care, as far as I could make out, about the freezing weather.
All these sightings recently reported of animal and bird activity - BC's hares have got to take the biscuit - all confirm that the new season is upon us, whatever the weather. I think it's day length, and not weather, which sets the ball rolling.... No, Elkay, the moon has nothing to do with it...
Ps Ali: Stunning picture. I wouldn't've let on that it wasn't your own - you'd've risen even higher in my estimation if I'd been led to believe you'd taken it while doing the dishes...
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Post by Ali on Feb 5, 2012 16:12:39 GMT 1
The light is certainly making a difference.
Methinks most animals & birds are spoiled here, I bought the rabbit some cheaper supermarket food and she point blank refuses to eat it. I've tried throwing some to the chooks but they only take the grains out and ignore the pellets, tried putting some on the bird table but even the wild birds won't touch it.
Suppose I could throw it all to the hens (who are on the veggie patch at the mo) then they can take what they want and the worms could have the rest....
More food on the table for the wild birdies this morning (hoping for a revisit from the S Hawk really) - it's like spaghetti junction here with all their comings and goings.
All our surplus apples went into 4 demi-johns of apple wine - must remember to save some for the B birds next season!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2012 16:18:18 GMT 1
The amount of food the birds are eating it could be a question of them or us shortly!! It´s been non-stop feeding today,masses of Greenfinchs, one lonely Goldfinch,Robins,a Blackbird,there must be 30 or more out there now scoffing. |
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Post by Elkay on Feb 6, 2012 19:57:55 GMT 1
. No, Elkay, the moon has nothing to do with it... I'd challenge you on that one, annon  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2012 21:16:07 GMT 1
Am glad you don't take yourself seriously, Elkay. Your crops will fail and you and Mr Elkay will go hungry if you rely on the workings of the moon!
Owls, with their 20/20 vision, don't rely on it either!
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