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Post by ianr on Oct 20, 2020 7:35:13 GMT
The gardens here have been busy with blackbirds for a while now chomping on all the berries, seems to have been a good years breeding for them though some will be migrants, looking up I'm seeing fieldfare and redwing flying over quite a few years back now they use to regularly settle on the roof tops and come down into the berry trees but not nowadays. I think the blackies eat them all now. There's also lot of small birds tits finches and even goldcrests around and every dawn and dusk literally hundreds of rooks and jackdaws fly over to and from their roost, I do like the rooks calling not caw-ing but almost talking to each other. The other morning we had a heron settle on the ridge tiles opposite always makes me smile to see these birds in trees let alone on a roof it's surprising just how much activity there is at the moment yet no interest in the feeders ian
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Post by rowanberry on Oct 20, 2020 13:54:25 GMT
Here the sparrows come early and demolish the seeds I put out in the morning, although I've noticed the jays are not about very much at the moment. They drop in now and again as if to make sure peanuts are still on their table, but the oaks produced so many acorns this year I think they're still busy caching. Other than that, the GS woodpecker is the most regular visitor. I put fat balls out a week ago, and they're only slowly being eaten- usually those are gone within two days!
I suppose autumn is when they try to instinctively fortify themselves for winter on their more natural sources of food... once that's gone, the feeders will be busy again!
It great getting to see a heron- now that next-door's pond has been filled in we don't get them anymore. I'm sure the frogs in our pond aren't sorry about that.
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Post by Psamathe on Oct 20, 2020 14:20:35 GMT
Re: Blackbirds and berries: I have a largish cotoneaster at one end of the garden and at the other 4 pyracantha bushes (good size). Both have loads of berries but blackbirds end-up taking the cotoneaster berries and the pyracantha berries seem to end-up rotting in late winter (being ignored long after all the cotoneaster & holly berries have gone).
Question: What would eat wild privet berries? They look a bit "unappealing" and I assume are poisonous to some creatures. I seem to get plenty of berries which disappear but never seen who eats them.
Ian
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