Tag Archives: bird watching holidays
Bullfinch
Bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula: Occasionally in winter, four or so will visit the bird table for a few days and then we will not see them again for a while.
Dunnock
Dunnock Prunella modularis: In the garden all year, indeed I think we see one everyday, usually feeding on seed scattered from the bird table, or on the windowsill below the upstairs birdfeedeer (peanuts) again feeding on bits falling from the … Continue reading
Jay
Jay Garrulus glandarius: My all time favourite and regular visitors. Often a pair will visit, one sitting in the larch trees whilst the other takes peanuts. We have counted seventeen peanuts being taken one after the other. They do not … Continue reading
Magpie
Magpie Pica pica: Although quite a number seem to nest and roost in our top wood, they rarely come to the bird table except in the depths of winter. It may be that the bird table being close to the … Continue reading
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Great Spotted Woodpecker Dendrocopos major: Early morning visitor, after feasting on peanuts wedged in the bark of overlooking larch trees by the nuthatches, the Woodpecker will take any peanuts left on the bird table from the previous day. Most years … Continue reading
Collared Turtle Dove
Collared Turtle Dove Streptopelia decaocto: Overlooking the bird table is a 40ft high Lawson Cypress that has been the nesting site and all year roost to a pair of Collared Doves. Like the nuthatches I would imagine that it is … Continue reading
Robin
Robin Erithacus rubecula: For several years now three territories appear to converge on the bird table, front and two sides. Lots of aggressive posturing, flapping and general bad temper, two squabbling on the grass whilst a third feeds.
Blackbird
Blackbird Turdus merula: all year round in the garden and will have a root around whatever is on the table. If mashed potatoes are on the menu, they will stuff themselves silly until you think they are not going to … Continue reading
Chaffinch
Chaffinch Fringilla coelebs: all year residents, just perhaps a breeding pair coming to the table in summer, but quite a few with the sparrows from Autumn to the first spring flowers, well till they pair up and get breeding territories.
Nuthatch
Nuthatch Sitta europaea: now these are the real owner of the bird table. We have had a bird table outside the dining room window since 1991 and everyday that food is put out, a pair of nuthatches work the table … Continue reading