What's Buzzing or Flying near you today.... 2014

Good evening Zigs and Sheal my friends and thank you

HI Zigs you really shouldn't be flying in the dark

 

Our Girls Are Back!

Our pheasants have been missing for five months . This is something that never happened when they had Oscar the cat to guard them and play with them.

Five of our girls have turned up this morning (two more to go) and they're a little bit skittish at the moment.

It's been so dull that I haven't been able to photograph them properly but here they are

 

They never used to, as they stayed in the garden all the time. When we were gardening it was quite normal to suddenly have a pheasant run out from under a plant and go running off whilst squawking at the top of her voice. The males just used to stalk slowly out from the plants and walk off with a look of distain on their faces.

They have started harvesting the sugar beet behind us so that has probably been the reason for coming back.

 

Hundreds of Sparrows ,Just a few Blackbirds and Blue tits,not much else

 

We're still getting plenty of birds.

Five of our female pheasants returned at the weekend, the male put in an appearance today (yelling at me from the top of the bonfire heap), a family of great spotted woodpeckers take it in turn on the peanut feeder (so we have a woodpecker for most of the day), lots of greenfinches, blue tits and great tits, three robins, two wrens, an occasional flock of long-tail tits and a couple of wagtails, a few goldfinches, lots of chaffinches, one green woodpecker, pigeons, collared doves, magpies (regularly chased off by the doves), sparrows (only started reappearing this year), starlings (also chased by the doves) and crows.

They get through 20kg of seed in six weeks - plus peanuts and fat cakes. I've just ordered some more feed. The last four digits of the feed company's phone number are 2820