Do the birds know ?

[starwatcher]

over the last eighteen years despite putting food out for the birds we have only ever had 1 wren 1 robin 1 blue tit, this is over the years not all at once. this morning we had a blue tit a thrush and a pair of blackbirds all at once, do they know its the garden bird watch or what ????

[TPeers]

Should one ask what you put out and how?

Nice of them to perform for 'camera' though.

[smallblueplanet]

Birds like some cover to approach the food too. Are you surrounded by a concrete desert?

[shirlthegirl43]

LOL, I didn't see a single bird in the garden today!!! Possibly due to me and the dog and cat being present out there though. I saw a bullfinch and his missus 10 days ago when it didn't count - first time in 10 years here!

[Flummery]

Mr Flum does the garden birdwatch from the spare room window - 1 floor up so a better view - and the birds can't see him. I'm here spodding with you lot so I'm not walking around the kitchen scaring them off either - brill excuse!

[wellie]

Oh, how true! For weeks on end you DO or DON'T see birds? The last two days I have seen The Thrush. This Thrush has woken me up, kept me awake and most beautifully and noisily interfered with my sleep pattern for the last year, and oh, how thankful am I to have heard him..... yesterday, he summoned up the courage to venture into our flower borders. Today he summoned up the courage to venture into our flower borders.... And if he wasn't so damn quick off the top of that dry stone wall, my cat would of had him for breakfast. We live by the skin of our teeth HERE y'know!
But hey! A pair of Goldfinches on the Cardoon seedheads, two Long-tailed Tits on the nutfeeders - and a Nuthatch on the Beech Tree OUTSIDE of our garden wall ?!
What a lovely crisp day to spend in the warmth of the conservatory counting each and every one of our blessings!
X

[piskieinboots]

yesterday we got:
7 starlings
2 tree sparrows
2 collared doves
1 coal tit
2 robins (he must have been taking the mrs out, or he is gay)
1 blue tit
3 house sparrow
1 chiff chaff

this was slightly down on what we usually get cos next doors cat kept appearing and lying low thinking they coulnd't see him

[Headfry]

Saturday I got
1 starling
1 blackbird
2 robins
2 sparrows

It's the same every year on bird count weekend.....they all hide for the hour that I am out there! We would normally see many more birds than this.
I don't think I have ever heard the birds sound so wonderful in the mornings as they do this year... fantastic, I just have to open the back door and listen.

[Nicos]

An hour is quite a long time to sit and stare isn't it???!!!! Just goes to show that I'm not so good at the 'doing nothing ' way of life!

We really enjoyed that hour though......

3 Magpies
3 Blue tits
2 Great tits
2 Wood pigeon
2 Blackbirds
2 Crows
2 Robins


Do you think they are pairing up to make babies????

One of the magpies was clearly gathering twigs from a beech tree- plenty on the floor, but it was going for snapping of live twigs.

[Flummery]

They're supposed to pair up on St Valentine's day aren't they Nicos? Old country saying. On St V's day the birds get married - aaah!

[Nicos]

Not heard that one Flum!

That magpie must be a bit of an 'early bird' then?

Or could it be a sign of an earlier spring????( must admit I think my grass looks like it's started growing a bit)

[Flummery]

You don't live in Royston Vasey like me Nicos!

[Hazel at the Hill]

Well, I didn't have a many birdies here as I thought:

3 blackbird
1 magpie
2 starlings

BUT - great excitement - I had a bird sitting in the horse chestnut who I haven't seen before! I think that it was a dunnock, (pretty sure) but it may have been mrs chaffinch.

Seen a blue tit a few mins ago too - first one this year!

[HeyWayne]

Mildred, my resident starling didn't come to see me on the plot yesterday, but I think that was in part due to me bashing and sawing bits of metal.

I'm rubbish with birds apart from the usual suspects - sparrows (I didn't know there were different types though piskie!), starlings, blackbirds, robins and alike.

[oneflewover]

3 Magpies
3 Blue tits
2 Great tits
2 Wood pigeon
2 Blackbirds
2 Crows
2 Robins


Do you think they are pairing up to make babies????

They will be girls then?