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of the song thrush throughout the British Isles!The thrush is my favourite garden bird, but surely to be politically correct I'm not now expected to collect snails from inside my compost bin and distribute them around the garden in the hope of attracting a

. As ever, it was slight struggle to find my daughter’s binoculars in one of the kitchen drawers, and when I got them to my eyes, the tree was bare.  They looked a bit like thrushes, but they weren’t. Even I know a thrush when I see one. The mystery

and more sky than I can take in even with both eyes. There is just too much wildlife to look at in detail, so here is a mélange from the first week of our stay.Saturday 7th August 2010 Everything is much greener than England so they've obviously had more

quickly moved away, and from a distance I watched a song thrush return to incubate her clutch.All birds are wonderful, but the song thrush is my absolute favourite garden bird. It's a true beauty, not as bold as many others, but always a delight to see

, by July and August there are millions more hungry mouths to feed. For tits, finches and sparrows, garden feeding stations provide a real lifeline. And even for birds like robins, wrens, thrushes and blackbirds, availability of insects, fruits and berries

, they provide a brilliant pit stop for the blackbirds, thrushes and robins. The great thing is that the hedge runs alongside the bay window where we eat most of the family meals, so we get to enjoy their feasting as we eat. The hedge has been there for years

water. Encourage natural predators, such as thrushes, toads, hedgehogs and ground beetles. Drown them in saucers of milk or beer - bury the saucer with the rim slightly above soil level to prevent ground beetles falling in, too. Place traps in the border

Abbey and published by Routledge in 1909. Abbey was obviously a practical man, he divides cats into two classes - ornamental and useful. He quickly glosses over the ornamentals, more or less dismissing them as docile, tractable and maybe even good

and thrushes, as well as filling the feeders with seeds and peanuts. However, once again, only the pigeons are gobbling them up.The pigeons are so at home in my garden that they've started coming up to the patio door if they're hungry. I don't mind, I've plenty

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