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« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2009, 05:36:44 PM » |
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« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2009, 09:51:29 PM » |
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It's definitely not one of our Parakeets.
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« Reply #17 on: January 27, 2009, 10:36:13 PM » |
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Would help with your rodent poblem tho, and every other garden visitor  |
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« Reply #18 on: January 29, 2009, 12:43:49 AM » |
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« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2009, 04:28:23 PM » |
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We get lesser spotted woodpeckers in our garden. Saw a pair on our bird feeders only this morning, along with a pair of Jays. The woodpeckers are black & white with a bright red bum & about the size of a starling. They live in the oak tree at the bottom of our garden & feed on insects & the peanut feeders we have.
There are 3 species of woodpecker in Britain, but that's the only ones we've seen here.
Just glanced into next door's garden from an upstairs window though, & there, right in the middle of their lawn was a green woodpecker. Much bigger, halfway between the size of a blackbird & a pigeon. Bright green with a black face & a red cap on it's head -the ones that used to feature on Bulmer's cider labels. They feed on insects too, especially ants, which is why it was pecking at the lawn & not a tree. 24,000 breeding pairs in Britain.
So how come it doesn't come into our garden?
-& before anyone says it, no I wasn't peering into next door's garden with a telephoto lens when I saw it. I grabbed the camera after I spotted it!
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« Reply #20 on: February 01, 2009, 04:30:33 PM » |
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Their lawn's a bit posher than ours. Maybe green woodpeckers are a bit more choosy where they dine.  |
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« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2009, 10:28:56 PM » |
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It's prolly got more worms in it!
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« Reply #22 on: February 01, 2009, 10:43:25 PM » |
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Try telling the Moles that. We've been over run with them this year. Would prefer the woodpeckers any day.
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« Reply #23 on: February 01, 2009, 11:14:33 PM » |
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Ok, the moles have eaten all the worms so the Woodies got to go next door!
Moles are sooo cute tho!
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« Reply #24 on: February 01, 2009, 11:16:38 PM » |
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True yes they are cute and soooooooo soft to touch but they have made a hell of a mess of our lawn and flower bed edges.
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« Reply #25 on: February 01, 2009, 11:44:38 PM » |
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Before I joined the Post Office I spent 4 years working as a plasterer's mate. I was shovelling sand into a cement mixer one day. Grabbed a shovelful of sand from the heap & was just about to sling it in the mixer when a mole surfaced in the middle of it. He came within inches of being mixed.  |
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« Reply #26 on: February 01, 2009, 11:48:11 PM » |
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Is a plasterer`s mate like a fishermans friend? |
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« Reply #27 on: February 01, 2009, 11:49:06 PM » |
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Yeah, but not so friendly -or crunchy.
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« Reply #28 on: April 04, 2009, 10:53:34 PM » |
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We get a regular crowd of pheasants calling at our garden each day. They pick up the seed that other birds drop from the bird feeding trays & occasionally the more athletic ones will hop up onto the lowest feeder & wobble about, trying to keep their balance & eat at the same time. They run free on the estate but are here to be shot during the Winter shooting season -slightly annoying after we've been fattening them up, but probably more annoying for the pheasants.
Today one of them has repaid our generosity by laying an egg below the feeders. I was all set to become a surrogate father to it, but Taz, being more hardened to country life than me, told me pheasants have had all their maternal instincts bred out over the years & simply lay eggs then abandon them. Within an hour it had been snapped up for breakfast, probably by the crows.
*Sigh* I hardly had time to bond with it.
-Manky -softy townie.
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