What's Buzzing or Flying near you today......2016

This morning

 

I was pressure washing the patio yesterday and a very fine spray of water settles on the lawn. Ten peacock butterflies appeared and seemed to be happily drinking the drops of water (not sure what else they could be doing). They weren't in the least bothered by the noise or the fine spray going all over them.

The noise, or my presence, kept the bigger birds away from the feeder (about 50ft from where I was working) but all the small birds weren't bothered at all. There were loads of tits and finches feeding and four of our robins.

We now have a new male pheasant that has turned up. He has white patches on his wings (about 4" x 4"). That now makes five males and seven females.

 

Good afternoon

 

@Fern4 Hi Fern, it depends on what type of feeders you have. If they are anything like what is known as a candelabra feeder (a pole with a cross bar and feeders that hang down or stick up) then you can get a hemispherical squirrel guard. Ours has been successful for well over ten years. It fits on the pole and squirrels can't get past it.


For other types of feeders you can get ones that have the feeder inside a cage that has holes that birds can fit through but squirrels can't.

The birds in our garden get on well together - even our six robins don't fight when around the feeders - but the magpies and collared doves are always scrapping (the doves usually win ). So I was intrigued to see two of them feeding at the same time from one of the feeders. Never seen that before.