Published on 12, July, 2020
Sharing this on here because I know there are other birdwatchers around, just had a great spotted woodpecker on my bird feeders in my back garden! Had my binoculars next to me so got a good look
Is it the sunflower hearts they are eating?
Yep, I'm ever so happy. I'm going to go and sit in the garden now and see what else turns up.
Brilliant!
Such good news
Just been out to fill the bird feeders and when I popped back inside then out again there was a pair of goldfinches on one of the feeders! Not the best photo as it was on maximum zoom on my phone.
I’ve only seen a kingfisher once in my whole life, I’d so love to see one again. Such stunning colour and so unusual to see colour like that on a bird in the U.K. So beautiful!
Ah, no! I know it's just the way of things but it does make me sad.
The sound of the curlew is one of my all time favourite sounds in nature, sadly we don’t have them near where I live so I only hear them on days out/holidays. It’s the most wonderful sound!
We had a blackbird nest in our garden and I was very sad the other week that a magpie raided it and took the chicks.
I love Springwatch, I didn’t know it was starting again, I will be watching
That would be amazing if they did!
My mum and dad have a woodpecker on their birdfeeder too! They are lovely birds to watch, and we've put up a bird box in case they decide to nest!
It's not showing the link to the feeder that you posted, I only know you did because of the email. Thank you for that, I'll check them out as I don't have that type.
I have one like that so I'll give it a go. I also bought some squirrel baffles to try on a couple of the wire mesh ones to stop them going through all my suet nibbles and kibbled peanuts.
This is the type of feeder.
It's a (genuinely) squirrel proof one:
Yes, it's a wonder of nature
I love it when the young ones start coming in, we've got baby blue T-I-T-S at the moment, all fluffy and little fluttering wings when they want to be fed. Hilariously they still flutter even when they're feeding themselves on the suet blocks.
Ooh, I'll give those a go as well. I have mixed seed at the moment but I've got enough feeders I can do one for those.
BeckyThump said:Goldfinches seem to be the most common of the finches that I've seen recently. I hear and see them flying around all the time, yet to tempt them in to the garden though.
They love sunflower hearts.
We get lots of them every day on our feeders.
A juvenile Robin in our garden, before his red chest:
Goldfinches seem to be the most common of the finches that I've seen recently. I hear and see them flying around all the time, yet to tempt them in to the garden though. I've planted some teasels in the hope they'll like those and got a nyger feeder, so we'll see whether that works.