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Talkback: Nesting robins

On 15/04/2013 in forum

,Oldchippy. A friend in North Wales has two pairs of robins nesting in adjoining disused outside loos!  The males have been scrapping with each other a bit at the bird table, so she is setting up another feeding station to try to keep them apart and avoid


Snails and song thrushes in the garden

On 08/03/2010 in Gardeners' musings

for this job.Just for the record, I regularly spot beautiful thrushes in my garden, and the remnants of snail shells indicating that they've been feeding, so clearly there are still snails around.The thrush is my favourite garden bird, but surely I can


Feeding blackbirds

On 11/01/2013 in forum

much at all on birdwatch weekend.   We had the same problem - woodpigeons and magpies. We bought a seed tray which had an adjustable canopy over it. You can set it to the height for the size of bird which you wish to feed. Magpie did try knocking it off


Nectar-feeding woodpeckers

On 31/05/2012 in forum

Like many people, I have a resident pair of great spotted woodpeckers using the garden and currently busy feeding nestlings. I've noticed over the past two summers that the male in particular enjoys feeding from the flowers of red hot poker, so much


Birds

On 17/06/2012 in forum

blackbirds and the male has just come in to feed them, they were quite large birds, is this possible.  The two brown ones that I thought were thrushes have been hanging around my decking area in the garden for the last two days, would they have just fledged


Talkback: Bird baths

On 28/11/2011 in forum

one for now. Forgot to mention that I put a "beakfast" out every day of oats, seed, apples, sultanas and seed bread. On weekends they get two feeds!I get up to 20 blackbirds at a time along with all the other local birds! my neighbours are not very


Bird feeders causing weeds?

On 20/04/2012 in forum

, and then into a bed of nyjer seedlings, or whatever. I also use that as an area to spread other food, that ground feeding birds prefer. Some time ago it was suggested to me, and approved of by the RSPB who should know a thing or two about birds, that microwaving


Birds.

On 23/12/2012 in forum

Z6QMQ/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1 Not all birds want to use vertically mounted feeders. Tits and finches of all kinds do, though blackbirds and robins prefer to feed from a flat surface. The Meripac (2nd review above) looks


Talkback: Sparrows in the garden

On 15/02/2012 in forum

in our garden this year, and yesterday I emptied the bird feeders and filled them with Bill Oddies seed mix aimed at attracting sparrows it worked. I came home at dinner time to see sparrows tucking in. To think back to childhood and feeding the birds


Fruit and veg job checklist - week 26

On 23/11/2011 in Fruit and veg checklists

Hang old CDs among crops and from fruit trees to scare away birdsWater beans and sweet peas as they start to flowerGive extra water to ripening soft fruits such as raspberries, gooseberries, strawberries and currantsFeed tomatoes and crops


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