Oct 12, 2011 9:03:44 GMT
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Post by starling on Feb 20, 2012 14:04:54 GMT
My garden doesn't get many birds as there are too many cats and high walls so the birds don't feel safe I suspect. The birds that regularly visit my garden are blackbirds, magpies, wood pigeons, wrens, blue tits and dunnocks. Sometimes the occassional robin. However, there are trees in the surrounding gardens so I often see quite a few other species from my garden/house, such as collared dove, greenfinch, chaffinch, goldfinch, bullfinch, long-tailed tit, coal tit, great tit, starling, pied wagtail, mistle thrush, song thrush, redwing, carrion crow and jackdaw. If I remember, I'll be back to let you know what birds are in my garden on the Isle of Man  |
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Post by brian1 on Feb 20, 2012 16:13:38 GMT
My garden doesn't get many birds as there are too many cats and high walls so the birds don't feel safe I suspect. The birds that regularly visit my garden are blackbirds, magpies, wood pigeons, wrens, blue tits and dunnocks. Sometimes the occassional robin. However, there are trees in the surrounding gardens so I often see quite a few other species from my garden/house, such as collared dove, greenfinch, chaffinch, goldfinch, bullfinch, long-tailed tit, coal tit, great tit, starling, pied wagtail, mistle thrush, song thrush, redwing, carrion crow and jackdaw. If I remember, I'll be back to let you know what birds are in my garden on the Isle of Man Hi, still quite a selection Starling, will be interesting to see what's in your other garden,wow 2 gardens how posh!! |
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Post by Ryan.W on Feb 20, 2012 19:37:37 GMT
I don't get much but ive saw tree creepers and nuthatches, bullfinches too near my area so I'm going to try and attract them. Hopefully pretty soon I'm going to be ordering some hedging and native flowers for the garden. I'm hoping after that I'll start seeing more birds in the garden. Nice one Ryan, have you got a bird table? Not yet I do have a Station sort of thing though which I put food and water on. Hedging order today (plenty Holly for cover and berries during the winter ,hawthorn and blackthorn, beech, bird cherry, scotch Rose and ivy and honeysuckle.) now I just need to get the wildflowers and re-do the lawn(it's a bit scraggy just now  ) |
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Post by brian1 on Feb 20, 2012 19:42:44 GMT
Nice one Ryan, have you got a bird table? Not yet I do have a Station sort of thing though which I put food and water on. Hedging order today (plenty Holly for cover and berries during the winter ,hawthorn and blackthorn, beech, bird cherry, scotch Rose and ivy and honeysuckle.) now I just need to get the wildflowers and re-do the lawn(it's a bit scraggy just now ) Good work Ryan, I have my table close to some shrubs and a tree so the birds can flit in and out to feed, they like to feel safe as you know......... |
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Post by Ryan.W on Feb 20, 2012 19:52:13 GMT
Not yet I do have a Station sort of thing though which I put food and water on. Hedging order today (plenty Holly for cover and berries during the winter ,hawthorn and blackthorn, beech, bird cherry, scotch Rose and ivy and honeysuckle.) now I just need to get the wildflowers and re-do the lawn(it's a bit scraggy just now ) Good work Ryan, I have my table close to some shrubs and a tree so the birds can flit in and out to feed, they like to feel safe as you know......... I'm really looking too attract nuthatches,bullfinches,wrens and robins they're all such stunning birds especially the bullfinch. Bullfinches and nuthatches are hard too attract though with them being quite shy birds and I live next to a main road with 2 noisy dogs |
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Oct 7, 2011 19:59:02 GMT
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Post by ianb on Feb 20, 2012 19:57:59 GMT
Thought you only got hawks,woodpigeons and peacocks brian  |
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Post by brian1 on Feb 20, 2012 20:07:35 GMT
Thought you only got hawks,woodpigeons and peacocks brian  |
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Oct 12, 2011 9:03:44 GMT
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Post by starling on Feb 21, 2012 7:52:13 GMT
Brian, I'm going over to the Isle of Man to work for the summer, hence my new garden!
I love bullfinches too. This year is the first that I've noticed them out the back of my house, but maybe I'm just paying more attention this year!
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Post by brian1 on Feb 21, 2012 10:46:20 GMT
Brian, I'm going over to the Isle of Man to work for the summer, hence my new garden! I love bullfinches too. This year is the first that I've noticed them out the back of my house, but maybe I'm just paying more attention this year! All the best to you, it's a place I have never been,keep us updated as to how your doing,what about your budgies? |
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Post by starling on Feb 23, 2012 10:45:33 GMT
All the best to you, it's a place I have never been,keep us updated as to how your doing,what about your budgies? Thank you! I am leaving my birds at home and my parents are looking after them. There'll be some strict rules in place! I would have taken them, but it's too awkward to sort out, and too expensive to rent an apartment. If I end up there on a more permanent basis, then I'll be back to get them ;D |
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Post by brian1 on Feb 23, 2012 10:57:54 GMT
All the best to you, it's a place I have never been,keep us updated as to how your doing,what about your budgies? Thank you! I am leaving my birds at home and my parents are looking after them. There'll be some strict rules in place! I would have taken them, but it's too awkward to sort out, and too expensive to rent an apartment. If I end up there on a more permanent basis, then I'll be back to get them ;D Nice one Starling, you will have to take photo's of them and hang them up or you will miss them............ |
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Post by Ryan.W on Feb 26, 2012 12:43:08 GMT
Digged over one area and planted what will hopefully become a small meadow. Just need to wait for the hedging to come then there will be some brambles,gooseberries,hollys and roses going behind the Miny meadow for cover. I've put the bird bath up in that area and two feeding stations. In the middle of digging over another small area too put down some more wildflower seed which will hopefuy become a minature meadow Aswell. It's amazing the amount of earwigs and earwig larvae I keep finding. I hope once this gets astablished properly in a couple of years it should attract plenty of seed eating and berry eating birds.
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Post by brian1 on Feb 26, 2012 19:10:12 GMT
Digged over one area and planted what will hopefully become a small meadow. Just need to wait for the hedging to come then there will be some brambles,gooseberries,hollys and roses going behind the Miny meadow for cover. I've put the bird bath up in that area and two feeding stations. In the middle of digging over another small area too put down some more wildflower seed which will hopefuy become a minature meadow Aswell. It's amazing the amount of earwigs and earwig larvae I keep finding. I hope once this gets astablished properly in a couple of years it should attract plenty of seed eating and berry eating birds. Sounds really good Ryan, you should see a lot more in time, plus it will look better,and birds will love it,well done mate..........  |
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Post by starling on Feb 27, 2012 13:16:32 GMT
Yes it sounds excellent Ryan. I wish more people would appreciate the value of wildflowers. You'll have lots of lovely bees and butterflies! I want a wildflower meadow in my future garden!
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Post by Ryan.W on Feb 27, 2012 19:17:49 GMT
thanks starling and brian im obsessed with wildlife ,especially native flora. i finnished that bit last night so that's too mini meadows sown now, just need too wait for them to start growing. Just got the new lawn too put down and put some more wildflowers in scattered patches. I'll post pics later on in the end of march i should have it looking up too scratch by then
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