this is where mine is positioned next to the dense bush belonging to next door, it is only about 20 feet from the house but they don't seem to mind even the robin uses the caged feeder if there are no dropped seeds to be had
p.s i forgot that is the office you can see in the garden and they don't mind that being so close either
If that is the office, you could strategically place food on the keyboard and the birds could peck the food off the keys and , do your typing for you !
How lovely to have a song thrush in your garden - I haven't seen one around here since we moved in 3 years ago, but I occasionally hear one singing in the evening. We have plenty of snails here if he'd like to visit
I do see song thrushes when we visit mother in law - she lives opposite an old village church with a stone wall around the churchyard in south Lincs - most of the cottages are built of stone and have stone in the gardens too - lots of anvils for the thrushes.
Maybe Norfolk is just not stony enough for song thrushes
“I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh
Herons are my favourite bird - I used to live near a heronry in Suffolk when I was a child. Now we're in Norfolk we live near to the marshes so we see them quite often, but as ours is a wildlife pond with no fish we've not had a visitor ... yet .
I know fish can be lovely in a pond, but I think I'd rather have the heron
“I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh
Funny you should say that Dove, when I was in Suffolk we use to see a lot of song thrushes, now here in Essex very rare I see them at all.
It was much stonier in the part of Suffolk we lived in with plenty of large flints. My Dad said it was something to do with the last ice age, but we lived on a hill on very stony soil and had gravel pits close-by. Here on the London Clay in Essex, I just don't see them.
I lived in High Suffolk - heavy clay with large flints - often large flints were removed from the fields and stacked in corners to avoid damaging the plough etc - they were great 'anvils'.
I was going to say, what you posted about peanuts is interesting - I'd always thought that maybe bluetits etc were clever enough to know what they were doing, but the 'don't feed whole peanuts in the spring' thing has always been said with such authority by the 'experts' that I've happily passed it on. Perhaps from now on I'll assume the bluetits know best what to feed their children - they've survived this long
“I am not lost, for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.” Winnie the Pooh
It is a minefield Dove with this sort of information. I've had plenty of things I believed for years that turned out not to be true.
It wasn't that long ago I remember the advice was to stop feeding the birds right now to force them to feed on natural food. Poor little things, stressed finding extra food for the young then all of a sudden their normal food supply for themselves dries up. That can't be right!
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this is where mine is positioned next to the dense bush belonging to next door, it is only about 20 feet from the house but they don't seem to mind
even the robin uses the caged feeder if there are no dropped seeds to be had
p.s i forgot that is the office you can see in the garden and they don't mind that being so close either
If that is the office, you could strategically place food on the keyboard and the birds could peck the food off the keys and , do your typing for you !
Marc. A forum is just that. A forum. Enjoy it and do not take thing too seriously.
peat b i'll pass that typing suggestion onto my one fingered typing husband
How lovely to have a song thrush in your garden - I haven't seen one around here since we moved in 3 years ago, but I occasionally hear one singing in the evening. We have plenty of snails here if he'd like to visit
I do see song thrushes when we visit mother in law - she lives opposite an old village church with a stone wall around the churchyard in south Lincs - most of the cottages are built of stone and have stone in the gardens too - lots of anvils for the thrushes.
Maybe Norfolk is just not stony enough for song thrushes
Herons are my favourite bird - I used to live near a heronry in Suffolk when I was a child. Now we're in Norfolk we live near to the marshes so we see them quite often, but as ours is a wildlife pond with no fish we've not had a visitor ... yet .
I know fish can be lovely in a pond, but I think I'd rather have the heron
Funny you should say that Dove, when I was in Suffolk we use to see a lot of song thrushes, now here in Essex very rare I see them at all.
It was much stonier in the part of Suffolk we lived in with plenty of large flints. My Dad said it was something to do with the last ice age, but we lived on a hill on very stony soil and had gravel pits close-by. Here on the London Clay in Essex, I just don't see them.
I lived in High Suffolk - heavy clay with large flints - often large flints were removed from the fields and stacked in corners to avoid damaging the plough etc - they were great 'anvils'.
I was going to say, what you posted about peanuts is interesting - I'd always thought that maybe bluetits etc were clever enough to know what they were doing, but the 'don't feed whole peanuts in the spring' thing has always been said with such authority by the 'experts' that I've happily passed it on. Perhaps from now on I'll assume the bluetits know best what to feed their children - they've survived this long
It is a minefield Dove with this sort of information. I've had plenty of things I believed for years that turned out not to be true.
It wasn't that long ago I remember the advice was to stop feeding the birds right now to force them to feed on natural food. Poor little things, stressed finding extra food for the young then all of a sudden their normal food supply for themselves dries up. That can't be right!