Posts Tagged ‘Birds’

Homemade Bird Food and Feeders

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

One of the great things about living at Waterloo Farm is the variety of wildlife we get in the garden, and especially at this time of year, the birds. We always try our best to put food out for them, ensuring there’s something for everyone – peanuts and seeds in feeders for the little birds, apples and suitable leftovers for the bigger ones and food on the floor for those that don’t hover so well like our resident pheasant Fezziwig! As you can imagine we were getting through quite a lot of shop-bought fat balls to keep up with them all, so I decided to have a go at making my own, and I’m pleased to say my experiments have been a total success :)

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Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major)

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major

Great Spotted Woodpecker - Dendrocopos major

Well it has been a while, and lots has changed since my last post, but I could not pick-up the blogging baton again in earnest without mentioning another visitor to The Farm, a Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major).

The photograph is not great I am afraid, but I think you get the idea! It makes a right din when it arrives, and it was the yakking sound that alerted me to the visit first.

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First Garden Birds on Feeding Station

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Garden Birds on Feeding StationWithin just a few days of putting the new bird feeding station up we started to attract birds into the garden. We have already seen Long Tale Tits, Great Tits, Blue Tits, Robins, Green Finches and Sparrows on the feeder itself, with Collared Doves hoovering up the crumbs below.

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Encouraging Wildlife and Garden Birds

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Bird FeederWe are really keen to encourage as much wildlife as possible into the garden, and one very small step today was including a feeding station for the birds.

At the moment the garden is rather bereft of any garden birds, which I think is mostly due to the lack of anything to interest them into it. There are not many plants with flowers, which would encourage the insects, which would in turn attract the birds.

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