We too have increased our feeding
in the last couple of days, including a trip to the butchers to get some bones
and scraps. Our garden list today is;
Blackbird
Blue tit
Chaffinch
Wood pigeon
Red kite
Crow
Magpie
Herring gull
Robin
Dunnock
Goldfinch
Wren
Great tit
Bullfinch (male &
Female)
Starling
Coal Tit
Great spotted woodpecker
Long-tailed tit
Song Thrush
Buzzard
Nuthatch
Brambling ( female has been
around for best part of a week)
Siskin ( up to 20+ mixed flock of
male & females, these have been with us on and off for about 3 weeks)
Redwing
Collared dove
seen but not on or near the
feeders Pied wagtail, treecreeper.
As well as the butchers bones and
scraps, we are feeding mixed seed, peanuts, fatballs, black sunflower seeds,
sunflower hearts, meal worms, sultanas, and home made lard cakes, we also make
sure there is a supply of water that is not frozen.
Ian Burgess
A similar variety of species to mine, from a site 25 miles away, although I haven't had Brambling, Long-tailed Tit or Bullfinch recently, just lots of House Sparrows.