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We have Tits of all shapes sizes and colours in our Garden this time out Blue, Great, Coal and Long tailed.South West Claret. wrote:Sparrows used to be ten a penny but not these days apparently, but the last couple of summers down here we’ve seen loads.
I was going to say juvenile....but it didn't seem right to have a juvenile pecking your nuts. Probably illegal in fact.CJW wrote:"Juvenile" Great Spotted Woodpecker. Nice.
What ARE you on Boss? You make it sound like a beach in Ibiza.Bosscat wrote:We have Tits of all shapes sizes
I believe it has since 'f*ckin snuffed it'.AshevilleNCClaret wrote:I saw a Norwegian Blue at our bird feeder... beautiful plumage....pining for the fjords
houseboy wrote:What ARE you on Boss? You make it sound like a beach in Ibiza.
This thread is getting worse.beddie wrote: tits......fat balls
Thanks Boss and here I am in an office trying to input data into a database that wants to sleep more than Bosscat on a sunny afternoon (has the taxman taken all your doe and left you with your stately home and all you've got's your sunny afternoon?)Bosscat wrote:Costa Del Long Preston ... Suns shining, Lawns mowed and my lounger out for an afternoon of Sunshine and Ice Tea
You've a good memory then?Rick_Muller wrote:fantastic when you get a new bird around your nuts
No...... he's resting....houseboy wrote:I believe it has since 'f*ckin snuffed it'.
The only reason he was sitting on the perch in the 1st place was because he had been NAILED THERE!AshevilleNCClaret wrote:No...... he's resting....
Did I say beautiful plumage?
Okay I'll wake it up then - wakey wakey Mr Polly Parrot.Bosscat wrote:The only reason he was sitting on the perch in the 1st place was because he had been NAILED THERE!
He left her be hinddougcollins wrote:So what did the taxman do with your lady Deer?
This our Sparrowhawk Steve so I would say yesSteve1956 wrote:This was in our garden the other day not a great pic but I'm not a professional twitcher like BC is it a sparrowhawk?
I am assuming your about 70 BC when I say " When we were kids"Steve1956 wrote:Beautiful bird mate,remember when we were kids and the only wildlife you saw was Starlings and Magpies
I suppose the beak gives that away?CJW wrote:"Juvenile" Great Spotted Woodpecker. Nice.
Hi Taffy, no - it's the wholly red crown which is only shown by this year's birds.Taffy on the wing wrote:I suppose the beak gives that away?
Check out theSouth West Claret. wrote:Whats the hedge hogg situation like up there ? we spotted two in our garden the other day a large adult and smaller baby.
As bold as brass strolling up the garden path.
Have you seen *****'s MrsBilly Balfour wrote:Female sparrowhawks can be 25% larger than the males. This is the biggest size difference in any species of bird.
We don't feed our birds on the floor, because of attracting rats etc.Billy Balfour wrote:If you ever see signs of rats or their droppings - take the bird food away for a good few weeks.
Our kid ignored this advice because, as he put it, it's probably just a single rat feeding at night. I told him there's never a 'single rat', there's always more and they will repeatedly visit any food source once they've found one. The rats ended up tunnelling in his garden border and somehow got into the wall cavity. Cost him and his missus a fortune to sort out.
He never fed them on the ground. They had a bird feeding station and a bird table. The rats were coming in at night feeding on the small bits that dropped onto the lawn.Bosscat wrote:We don't feed our birds on the floor, because of attracting rats etc.
Fantastic! Ours have not been seen for a couple of days now.Bosscat wrote:Check out the
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I regularly update on our little resodents that come every evening to get their tea we now have 4 regular visitors 2 littlish ones (this years youngsters) and 2 adults..... they all come at different times
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No it isn't. By the way is this the right room for an argument?AshevilleNCClaret wrote:It's a shame that pretty much the only Monty Python known in the US is the Holy Grail.
While classic, their flying circus stuff is hilarious.
I've told you oncehouseboy wrote:No it isn't. By the way is this the right room for an argument?
Is this the full half hour or just the 5 minutes?Bosscat wrote:I've told you once