WHAT I SAW TODAY.....

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Post by Placido » Sat Oct 10, 2015 9:44 pm

Yesterday a m. chaffinch visited for lunch :). Today the same one (I presume) revisited, this time with a lady friend. They both had lunch :pot: :yummy:
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Post by Willpar » Sun Oct 11, 2015 3:37 pm

Am still seeing swallows darting around. Seems they were gathered in one place this morning. Darting about for food.
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Post by Jacksparrow » Sun Oct 11, 2015 7:53 pm

Willpar wrote:Am still seeing swallows darting around. Seems they were gathered in one place this morning. Darting about for food.
When they start to gather they are preparing for the journey south. Wave :wave2: bye-bye to them for the rest of us.
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Post by greg » Mon Oct 12, 2015 10:59 am

Lots of work in the garden just lately. I am being stalked by a Robin! He always appears when I start digging. He's been hopping around on the wheelbarrow and on a spade handle - and I hadn't got a camera with me. It's been a good excuse to go in the house and have a cuppa, whilst he mops up all the worms.
Loads more to do next weekend and I'll have a camera handy !
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Post by Placido » Mon Oct 12, 2015 9:45 pm

Not that hackneyed old spade handle trick again !!!
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Post by Willpar » Tue Oct 13, 2015 5:20 pm

Lots of swallows again today darting about for food. Not far from where I seen some a couple of days ago.
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Post by j0nh22 » Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:57 am

Lot's of jay's , blackbirds , sparrows , blue tits, then out of the blue came this little chap , it's not the blackbird taking off but on the bottom left of pic.
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Post by j0nh22 » Wed Oct 14, 2015 9:03 am

Better pic.
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Post by j0nh22 » Wed Oct 14, 2015 11:25 am

What I saw today was quite amazing, never seen it before a coal tit I think taking a sunflower heart then hiding it , not once but to many to record, anyone else seen this before.
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Post by Placido » Wed Oct 14, 2015 12:06 pm

Big clap :clap: for jenny wren :yes:

Yes, I've seen the coal tit behaviour of storing up sunflower hearts for winter. At our old house there was a very small very old garden wall and one year a coalie spent weeks tucking away the sunflowers. It was so intent on its purpose that I used to sit on the floor in the conservatory just a foot away from the wall and watch it in closeup so to speak.
And, big bonus, during the winter it came back and gradually retrieved the seeds.
Only ever happened once. Coalies must have the same mental map mechanism as squirrels.
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