Garden residents

Just a few locals to our soon to be replaced falling apart bird table.
Some don't stay still long enough for a pic but here are the few that do.

 

Lovely Strongy

 

Except the Blackbird, they were taken through double glazing so it's difficult to get a really sharp pic. Now if only the Bullfinch would come back.

 

Wonderful , well caught Strongy .

 

Nice shots, it is tough shooting through glass.

 

Here's the new table, the Woodies find it difficult to get in which is fine as they will eat everything in one visit.

 

oh i like this, i hope the birds do too
i may copy the design and make one

 

Does anyone else have problems with messy wild birds,you put some nice seed out for them and find a mini corn field where they have spilled it.Pigeons are definitely the worst,followed by magpies and crows,the 3 birds we are not quite so eager to feed.
We do have a roof on our table aswell,quite comical watching bigger birds doing the limbo

 

Lazy dog, they are not so much messy as fussy, most birds will toss out the seed they don't want to eat.

 

Just like kids pushing their food round the plate when they don't like something.
Brussel sprouts come to mind.

 

I really miss robins,robins here are big fat treetreetreetreetreetreetree,not dainty robinlike at all.

 

Had a visit from a Siskin today for the first time.

Kernowdreamer is this the one you are refering too?
Saw quite a few of them in the Mid West, a bigger and bit more Thrush like.

 

I still hope to improve Woo, the new camera is not easy to focus with because of that long lens.

 

Yes that's definitely a robin. I know there is a few mated pairs in my garden . I understand they are monogamous ,I started to keep an eye on the few in the garden but I couldn't see any identifying marks to tell if they were in fact the same birds knocking about together . noticed they hang about when I working out there,guess they are looking for worms which is what they must eat as I never seen them at any of the feeders. I know they lay at least 3 times a year,(that info I got from a bird book ) the prettiest robineggblue colour eggs ,find the half shell every where.Yes they are thrush like size wise . I cant tell the male from the female unless they have their back to me,then you can see the female has a lighter colour brown on the tail feathers.I wonder just who named them a robin,cant be named after the British robin ,they don't look at all like them and American one has a more orange red breast.