Tag: bird
-
So, chicken feed… pretty tasty stuff eh?
It’s becoming a problem… not a big problem, but a problem. The local wild birds are eating the chicken feed faster than the chickens. I don’t honestly mind; after all we have seed feeders all over the back garden and it would seem daft to worry about a handful of layers pellets getting devoured in…
-
Cold, isn’t it?
Well, cold enough for us over here anyhow! It was minus five when I awoke this morning, on the weather station above chez bish, and we’re in a small dip between hills and shielded from the worst of the winter winds. It’s clearly having an effect on the local wildlife, as we were today oversailed…
-
One of our blackbirds is missing…
I’m not a twitcher, but I think this is a male Goshawk. Might be a Sparrowhawk, but the belly looks whiter and the feathering over the top of the legs indicates Goshawk (twitch, twitch!) 🙂 That’s certainly no longer a fledgling blackbird, anyway… It found today’s evening meal in our back garden close by the…
-
Hurrah for BST!
How wonderful it is to be back on British Summer Time! “What?” you explode, “is he completely barking?” Well yes, but you knew that already. I woke up as usual this morning, just before the alarm went off. But this time it was yet still dark, early dawn. And the dawn chorus was in full…
Rosher.Net 