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22:54:45, 12/01/08
Anybody taking part in the RSPB bird survey?
Count the robins in your garden... (and whatever other birds visit as well)
It takes an hour on either 26th or 27th of January.
Details are on
www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatchI think its a good idea anyway......
Makes the neighbours wonder what you're doing too....
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09:14:36, 13/01/08
I think your neighbours probably already wonder what you're up to, Mike.
But, yes, I'll be taking part in this. The kids loved it last time, only won't be doing it in my backyard as it's little more than concrete and brick sheds, so will be doing it at the local park.
Let's see if the starlings have picked up this year
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12:32:23, 19/01/08
hi yes i,ll be here pen poised. great birds in my garden including a bloody sparrowhawk that eats the ones i feed up for her! ;)great lunch thanks!!!!! I did the tree seed collecting thing also but didnt get to the planting days so ended up with seedlings everywhere (mainly oaks) and planted them all in the small wood my garden backs on to. will probly look great in 100 years!
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16:06:49, 19/01/08
I found a tiny juvenile slow worm on my garden path about 11:30 yesterday morning, alive but very sluggish. I'm used to seeing slow worms occasionally in my garden (1920s suburbs, outer north London) but not in January when they should be hibernating. The recorder I sent the details to told me a grass snake was sighted in Peterborough last week. Shows how mild this winter is.
I dropped out of doing garden bird/bumble bee/ladybird surveys because you can't submit your results without giving all your details, and then they bombard you with unwanted junk mail for the next couple of years.
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23:51:01, 19/01/08
Our entertainment comes when the pair of magpies we've got nesting in a tree start to repair their nest in spring and every time they fly off for another twig, the local jackdaws fly in and pinch their material. It goes on for hours until the maggies come back a bit early and then there's fisticuffs (fistiwings?? fistibeaks??......)..
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21:02:35, 25/01/08
In preparation for the bird survey, I decided I'd best put out some things for our feathered friends to have a bit of a peck on whilst I accounted for their numbers - so off I went to the local pet shop, who sell wild bird food and feeders and stuff.
I was taken aback, though when I asked the shop assistant if he had fatballs and he threw me out of the shop.
Can anybody explain this?
Puzzled....
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22:30:17, 25/01/08
Go to your local Punjabi cash-and-carry, there you'll find peanuts, seeds and all sorts, for human consumption at less than half the price of what is sold in pet shops, garden centres etc for avian consumption!
Just make sure you don't ask if they keep dripping....
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10:16:48, 28/01/08
great idea Howard I will go and investigate. Not a good day yesterday for my birdwatch. It was very windy (the weather!) which I always find spooks the birds.Didnt seem to get te numbers I usaully do
Thanks again Howard
Sue