Don't forget the birds

:D

 

Last year I tried to come up with an idea for a solar powered heating element that could be placed in bird baths etc to keep the ice off.

This thread has reminded me to get my backside into gear and make it!:o

 

Yesterday I soaked bread in home squash soup for the birds and put it and soon as was covered in snow.

Today I keep nipping out with porrige oats for the birds hope thats ok for them even the birds are sucking the icecles for water as water is frozen and keeps freezing.

Sunpeeking through and still it snows.

Dont forget the old folks too keep a check on them.

 

Make a birdbath out of firebrick & paint it black

 

I've been putting out softer apples too for the ground feeders - thrushes, blackbirds & jays. love watching all these birds too!:thumb:

 

Strangely with this arctic weather there haven't been many sitings of Fieldfares or Redwings, perhaps we need a longer cold spell.:roll:
Plenty of Waxwings about although not down here.:(

 

We got them (fieldfares) on the somerset levels now ( In fact they were early this year) Had to break to avoid hitting one today.

Never seen a waxwing :cry:

Birds found the new bird table today :gnthb:

 

I remember you reporting an early Fieldfare Ziggy, a few Redwings were sighted yesterday flying over the Bill towards France, the must know something.

 

Redwings flying further south :cnfs:

They've either read my thread on the ice age or they've seen this.

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnvqsWVluCE"]YouTube - The Day After Tomorrow[/nomedia]

s00k

 

A pair of jays are now regular visitors to my bird table - not bad for a little town garden which backs onto a massive block of flats! They do look slightly disgusted with things, like a pair of aristocrats who are a bit shabby and down on their luck but still very much on their dignity. The cockney sparrows keep out of their way. They know their place.

 

Wow, Jays are a bit of a rareity at the bird table, nice one Clare.:thmb: