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This year we have been so busy on the house that we have neglected the garden a lot,but have been surprised by all the birds feeding on the fallen apples,counted 27 blackbirds along with 2 roudy fieldfare,the summer was similar with the fallen plumbs an absolute butterfly free for all.

This is the most blackbirds i have ever seen in one place,is this unusual.

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We have >> Sparrows, Starlings, 3 blackbirds now and again, a couple of blue tits, a few doves, a few wood pigeon and that's about it. Nothing exotic like the finches or anything else. The thing is that all of these birds seem to come at the same time for a few minutes and then are all gone. for an hour or so then they all arrive in pack order again. there is a lurking hawk so they seem to do a circuit of various gardens and keep on the move.

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I've been reading the French Chasse magazine - equivalent of Shooting Times and it seems that many song birds are in steep decline over here too. But, on the plus side there has been a 500% increase in wood pigeons. Might get to do some decoying yet :)

 

So that's where they all are!

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We have Robins, blue tits, long tailed tit's, blackbirds. Only a couple of magpies left and a few crows that occasionally dare venture in.

The Robins are definitely getting tamer.

Apprentenly I'm told that one of our neighbours feeds the grey squirrels. So I'm in the process of trying to get them feeding in our garden 😉

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We have Woodies and Collar Doves mainly. Mrs H calls the latter Turtle Neck Doves :lol: We also have Starlings (when the meal worm feeder is stocked up). We used to have loads of Sparrows but they seem to have moved on. I was disinfecting the feeders on Monday morning and had a brief visit from a Robin, which I was genuinely excited about. Previous visitors include Goldfinches (still trying to tempt them back with Niger Seed), a Kingfisher, Fieldfares & Redwings (to pick the berries off the Pyracantha & Mistletoe), Blackbirds and a couple of Bluetits. Again, still trying to tempt them back with some black sunflower seeds.

 

The feeders we have in the Garden are as follows -

No mess seed & grain

Sunflower hearts (Woodies & Doves)

Berry flavoured suet (Starlings and maybe the odd Sparrow)

Mealworms (Starlings)

Niger seed (for the Goldfinches but remains untouched - I change it monthly)

Black sunflower seeds (for Bluetits but remains untouched)

Fat balls (no one seems to like these unless there is absolutely nothing else on offer)

Jar of Peanut butter (special birdy one, apparently, but again remains untouched)

 

So, if anyone can tell me when I still only get Woodies & Doves I'd sincerely appreciate it. Or maybe they've just got wind of our reputation where we live.

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We have Woodies and Collar Doves mainly. Mrs H calls the latter Turtle Neck Doves :lol: We also have Starlings (when the meal worm feeder is stocked up). We used to have loads of Sparrows but they seem to have moved on. I was disinfecting the feeders on Monday morning and had a brief visit from a Robin, which I was genuinely excited about. Previous visitors include Goldfinches (still trying to tempt them back with Niger Seed), a Kingfisher, Fieldfares & Redwings (to pick the berries off the Pyracantha & Mistletoe), Blackbirds and a couple of Bluetits. Again, still trying to tempt them back with some black sunflower seeds.

 

The feeders we have in the Garden are as follows -

No mess seed & grain

Sunflower hearts (Woodies & Doves)

Berry flavoured suet (Starlings and maybe the odd Sparrow)

Mealworms (Starlings)

Niger seed (for the Goldfinches but remains untouched - I change it monthly)

Black sunflower seeds (for Bluetits but remains untouched)

Fat balls (no one seems to like these unless there is absolutely nothing else on offer)

Jar of Peanut butter (special birdy one, apparently, but again remains untouched)

 

So, if anyone can tell me when I still only get Woodies & Doves I'd sincerely appreciate it. Or maybe they've just got wind of our reputation where we live.

We have 3 feeders with Sun flower hearts and lots of Green and Gold finches fighting over them, strange thing is we changed one feeder and put Niger seeds in it, they never touched it.

 

Also I was amazed at the variety of birds that were taking the Sun flower hearts, the only birds that did not take any were, Blackbird, Song Thrush, Wagtail,

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