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Bird-watching
Nov. 29th, 2013 09:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nanilaOur bird feeders (2 seed, 1 fat ball, 1 peanuts) have needed regular refilling since the weather in the UK started to cool earlier this months. We're filling the seed feeders pretty much daily now. (For geographical reference: I live in rural Worcestershire.)
This year we seem to have an unusually high number of sparrows. Last year it was more tits than we could count, but their numbers are definitely down this year. We have great tits, a few blue tits and occasional visits from a flock of long-tailed tits. I have yet to see any coal tits this autumn. We have a chaffinch and a greater spotted woodpecker, probably the same one we had last year, who monopolises the peanuts when he's around. He's very territorial. It takes him a while to work a peanut out of the spherical feeder and he defends it ferociously from the smaller birds while he's at it. Once he has one, he flies off for a minute or two, to enjoy it from the comfort of the higher branches, and then dives back in and throws his weight around.
What bird life are people seeing in their parts of the world?
This year we seem to have an unusually high number of sparrows. Last year it was more tits than we could count, but their numbers are definitely down this year. We have great tits, a few blue tits and occasional visits from a flock of long-tailed tits. I have yet to see any coal tits this autumn. We have a chaffinch and a greater spotted woodpecker, probably the same one we had last year, who monopolises the peanuts when he's around. He's very territorial. It takes him a while to work a peanut out of the spherical feeder and he defends it ferociously from the smaller birds while he's at it. Once he has one, he flies off for a minute or two, to enjoy it from the comfort of the higher branches, and then dives back in and throws his weight around.
What bird life are people seeing in their parts of the world?
