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    Default in my garden this morning..

    hubby put out the new feeders before dawn this morning, and our little robin was there already!
    then as the morning has gone on.. we have had robin, starlings, sparrows, crows, a dove and a blackbird.
    may get more ! but great to watch them.. but im telling you those starlings are aggressive and very possessive of what they claim as theirs..
    i feel bad for the little robin as he just stands back and watches, and dosent get very much!
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    We have the same birds this morning and a single Dunnock putting in an appearance. I've seen Goldfinches in the area but never been able to attract them into the garden.

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    Dunnocks,robins,blackbirds,starlings,sparrows,chaf finches,bluetits but my collared doves are missing and not seen any goldfinches since we moved the feeders.
    Last edited by Kenn; 29-Nov-10 at 02:52.

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    Dunnocks, sparrows, starlings, blackbirds, chaffinches, greenfinches, blue tits, great tits and a robin here. No sign of my collared doves or thrushes for a week or two either.

    I gave them fresh water this morning but it had frozen hard by 3pm and I had to replace it. Poor little mites. They must be freezing.

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    i had a ring necked dove in the garden this morning. several of the dif breeds of tiny birds.. but didnt have my glasses on so couldnt tell you dif breeds! *laughs* had about 50 on the ground.
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    Quote Originally Posted by brandy View Post
    i had a ring necked dove in the garden this morning. several of the dif breeds of tiny birds.. but didnt have my glasses on so couldnt tell you dif breeds! *laughs* had about 50 on the ground.

    Hi brandy

    Is this the ring necked dove you saw in your garden.

    Collared Dove.


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    very similar if not the same bird.
    we were having a giggle as it was in the tree trying to get to one of the feeders!
    he/she was sitting on the fence a lot of the time and coming down into the garden for bread..
    (we have a bird table, fat balls nailed to the fence, feeder in the tree and fatballs and penuts in the tree plus putting bread on the ground! )
    will try and get a pic if its back tomorrow!
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    Quote Originally Posted by brandy View Post
    hubby put out the new feeders before dawn this morning, and our little robin was there already!
    then as the morning has gone on.. we have had robin, starlings, sparrows, crows, a dove and a blackbird.
    may get more ! but great to watch them.. but im telling you those starlings are aggressive and very possessive of what they claim as theirs..
    i feel bad for the little robin as he just stands back and watches, and dosent get very much!
    don't worry about the robin he can the nastiest bird in the garden and they have been known to kill intruders on their patch
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    Stargazer - we attract the goldfinches by putting out niger seed in the special feeders. The first year we had no luck but the 2nd year they came in their droves!
    Today in my garden there have been robins, blackies, starlings, collared doves, bramblings, 1 siskin, bluetits, great tits, chaffinches, goldfinches, greenfinches, sparrows and a dunnock.
    We put out wild bird seed, peanuts, black sunflower seeds, niger seed and fat balls - and of course water. They also had out of date crumpets today, all crumbled up!

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    we had a song thrust along with all the local birds. we also tried putting chicken bones out they where cleaned of all meat in hours
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    12 crows, a few scorries and a drove of starlings, 1 robin and four chaffinches.

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    Get all the usual species in my garden but for the last couple of days there's been a gang of Chaffinches here. I counted about 20 of them this morning.

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    Goldfinches, Collared Doves, a very tame young male blackbird who comes right up to my feet whilst replenishing the table/feeders, a Robin, Starlings and have been swamped this week with Chaffinches.

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    We have a dove in our garden called crookfoot

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    are coal tits common as we have a pair who seem to have take residence
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    What's with these birds, all mine seem to be using up vital energy scrapping with each other!
    I expect such loutish behaviour from the starlings but now have robins beating up
    dunnocks and each other,more than 1 blackbird and the feathers are flying even the sparrows and chaffinches are squaring up, only ones with some decorum are the bluetits and the greenfinches and the juvenile black headed gull.
    The blackbirds even took on the fieldfares.

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    i think its more of just a live in the moment kind of thing. they are so hungry and little food, so all they know is that right now they have found food.. and that means life instead of death.
    they cant understand that it will be there tomorrow.. just that its there right now.
    ive decided that im going to keep the feeders well stocked this winter .. i felt so sorry for them the last couple days.. they seem so desprate
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    Lots of what others have said in my back garden, however there is also a wagtail? i thought they migrated somewhere but not up to speed on this can someone inform me, he/she is certainly a tough nut as it seems to stand its ground with the hoodies(pet name for the starlings)
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    Have several pied wagtails that come into the garden here and they sure are foisty little characters!

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    A Pheasant paid a visit to the back garden this morning
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