With two cats in the family, bird feeding tends to be of the hanging variety, to avoid feline temptation. This is good for the tits, but less good for ground-feeders like blackbirds, robins and dunnocks.
These unfortunates hang around the feeders anyway, trying to work out how to get a mouthful - normally they pick up scraps that fall, but the dunnock has now managed to leap from a nearby twig and hang on for long enough to get a peck.
Under the cliffs, a kestrel lies dead - one of the pair that bred this summer?
But on a happier note, the male Black Redstart is still hanging around the far end of the range.
4 comments:
Shame about the kestrel Steve.
The Dunnocks in my garden have adapted some new feeding techniques too!
That's so sad about the Kestrel, I do believe that's the youngster I've been watching all year... Really sad. Lovely Black Redstart, seeing as the undercliff is my local patch, I'll have to investigate!
Steve ,
It's amazing how the birds adapt to the feeders , observations on ours .
Chaffinches either perch like the other Finches or hovver like Hummingbirds to get theirs .
A couple of years ago the Robins fed sunflower hearts to their young at a great rate of knots .
Jackdaws have landed on , but then didn't know what to do .
Collared Doves attempt , but don't get much , and of course Rose Ringed Parakeets just sit and stuff themselves .
Our feline is an indoor job , but we get plenty of the locals hiding in the shrubbery .
What a shame about that beautiful kestrel. Feeding the ground feeding birds is always challenging. Can you do a tray feeder on a pedestal or even hanging? I put seed all over the ground and the deck, but my cats do more looking than hunting and the birds seem to be pretty smart.
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