Originally posted by Richard Tarleton
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What birds (are you/have you been) watching? What birds have been watching you?
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostHas anyone who has bird feeders any suggestions for ways of catching the seeds discarded by birds - it sometimes seems that they eat one and drop two - and these end up as weeds in the border. Any suggestions?
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostHas anyone who has bird feeders any suggestions for ways of catching the seeds discarded by birds - it sometimes seems that they eat one and drop two - and these end up as weeds in the border. Any suggestions?
The only thing to do if you wish to cease having to fork out the suspicious-looking herbiage every year is to fork out the extra cash and buy the feed that doesn't include "fertile" seed. (You still get a coating of "dust" at the foot of the feeders, but this can be quickly tilled into the soil.)[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Richard Tarleton
Originally posted by johncorrigan View PostGet some pheasants, cloughie. Out in our garden they hang out and clear the debris...and attempt to avoid the beaters and the shooters.
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Similar to RT, below any dispenser here there are Squirrels Pigeons Jackdaws and Pheasants always grateful for the regular food supply when the thrown bread & grain spread on the meadow (formerly lawn) runs low...and occasionally the Sparrowhawk will pounce...
All very busy up-and-down today! Finches always do well here, great to see so many Coal Tits this year....
True enough I see some mysterious shrubs grown from various seeds, but I welcome them usually.... those sunflowers in the meadow which appeared in late October, from the thrown birdseed, are still hanging on..... but clearing all the wet leaves is another matter....Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 17-11-19, 14:37.
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A pair of choughs have just been filmed on the Isles of Scilly. They was shown on our local BBC TV news programme, Spotlight Southwest.
(In the closing moments of the broadcast.)
The IOS are a wonderful place to be in Spring when birds, flowers and other wildlife are in abundance. Can't wait!
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Originally posted by ardcarp View PostA pair of choughs have just been filmed on the Isles of Scilly. They was shown on our local BBC TV news programme, Spotlight Southwest.
(In the closing moments of the broadcast.)
The IOS are a wonderful place to be in Spring when birds, flowers and other wildlife are in abundance. Can't wait!
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Richard Tarleton
Some Pembrokeshire chough - about 60 pairs dotted around the Pembrokeshire coast. The top two are adults, the bottom one a youngster.
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Originally posted by AnnC View PostI now live in Oxfordshire ( some may remember me as A a while ago)
I see red kites all the time and I have one that sits at the top of a tree at the end of my garden and ‘mews’ at me. Beautiful birds, I sometimes see up to 20 on the nearby field
Lucky you! Here in the NW, I often see (and hear) Buzzards and Sparrowhawks, occasionally Kestrel or Merlin, but how I long for those Kites to spread just a little farther North....
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Welcome, indeed, AnnC!
Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post... but how I long for those Kites to spread just a little farther North....[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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Originally posted by AnnC View PostI now live in Oxfordshire ( some may remember me as A a while ago)
I see red kites all the time and I have one that sits at the top of a tree at the end of my garden and ‘mews’ at me. Beautiful birds, I sometimes see up to 20 on the nearby field
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Bird hearing
Originally posted by Padraig View PostI remember an A, O AnnC, I remember an A.
I just found this link about the hearing of birds - https://ornithology.com/the-hearing-of-birds/
I was surprised as I assumed that perhaps birds could hear over a wider frequency range than humans, but maybe they can't. We know that bats can use a form of hearing for echo location using very high frequencies, and I think that dolphins also have a much wider frequency range of hearing than humans. Maybe birds don't actually need to have very good low frequency responses - but I'm still a bit surprised at this.
I assumed (I guess incorrectly) that because many birds have fairly high pitched song, that they would have hearing which would go above the range of human hearing at the top end.
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