Big Garden Birdwatch weekend. I got squirrel-protected fatballs, I got peanuts, I got a ground feeder and I got an 8 port seed feeder. I ain’t got any birds tho. - ThreadSky

hicks.design • 32 days ago

Big Garden Birdwatch weekend. I got squirrel-protected fatballs, I got peanuts, I got a ground feeder and I got an 8 port seed feeder.

I ain’t got any birds tho.

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hicks.design•32 days ago

In the end, I got Great Tit, Robin & Long-Tailed Tit. Better than expected, but no where near the variety I used to get.

hicks.design•31 days ago

Did the Garden Birdwatch again today - same time, but different weather. Managed a few more:

Long tailed tit (flock of 6)
Great tit
Blue tit
Blackbird
Robin
Dunnock
Wood Pigeon

suw.bsky.social•31 days ago

It's been horrible weather, so I've hardly seen any birds today.

hicks.design•31 days ago

The poor weather seems to have brought them in 🤷

clagnut.com•32 days ago

Haven't seen a long-tailed tit for years. Used to be very common on my Mum and Dad's silver birch, as did treecreepers and bullfinches. No such luck in our garden though. Must do the survey today though, before the bad weather returns next week.

#birding

craiggrannell.bsky.social•31 days ago

Ours has ticked up very slowly. Greenfinches are now rocking up occasionally. We had a couple of nuthatches with the various tits as well. Black sunflower seeds were the main draw. We also have nyjer seeds for goldfinches, although it took a couple of months for them to spot the seeds.

suw.bsky.social•32 days ago

If you're not already regularly feeding them, I've found it does take them a while to find you. I changed my feeder set-up – nearer the tree, have a hanging table for suet, a cage for fat balls and one for meal worms that's hanging off the tree itself, and have had more success.

hicks.design•32 days ago

It does take them a while, but I’ve been doing it for 6 years. It’s like they know 😉

suw.bsky.social•32 days ago

Ha ha ha. Yeah, they know. Totally.

suw.bsky.social•32 days ago

Though still not that many birds today. About half my usual visitors have not appeared all morning.

benbrignell.com•32 days ago

Have you tried putting up a little sign?

“Free food”?

hicks.design•31 days ago

That would’ve been better wording than my ”get it here” sign

bsscdt.bsky.social•32 days ago

We just had to change our feeder after crows wrecked the last one. We get a lot of squirrels too, so we had to get a squirrel proof feeder, it’s taking a long time to get birds back in to the garden. A few now, but apparently it can take months for the birds to settle into a new feeder set up.

hicks.design•31 days ago

Our neighbours got a cat a couple of years ago, and the numbers coming plummeted after that :(

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