What's buzzing or flying near you 2022 ?

Yesterday we were suddenly inundated with small birds after not seeing all that many for a few weeks.

I filled the smaller six port feeder and the big (3ft) ten port feeder early in the morning and they were empty by the afternoon. It was mainly a variety of tits, especially blue tits, some greenfinches (starting to come back ), sparrows and robins. The larger birds were clearing up underneath. A lot of pigeons, collared doves - squabbling with the magpies (those two breeds really don't get on!) and a lot pheasants just eating and ignoring the other birds. The peanut feeder was very busy with mainly woodpeckers.

I'm going out soon to fill them again.

It's nice to see so many back here again.

 

A very interesting morning today. Typically, my camera's battery is on charge!

I'm sitting here at my computer and I face out to a small section of my garden. To my left is a wall extending out about 10ft and covered in ivy. To my right is a conifer hedge so my view is restricted to a width of about 15ft. In front of me is part of the patio, a small bed with plants and then the greenhouse. Over the top of the greenhouse I can see numerous trees close to the greenhouse and then only the taller trees as they recede down the garden.

There have been numerous birds darting around frenetically. Two wrens and one sparrow flying in and out of the ivy whilst a pair of blackbirds are eating the berries that have formed on the ivy. One robin is sitting on the windowsill looking at me, or his reflection. Two pigeons are sitting half way down the conifer hedge whilst four collared doves are sitting on the top.

There is a 15ft catenary cable stretching from the house to the greenhouse and that has been visited in their droves by blue tits, great tits, coal tits, greenfinches and, for the first sighting of them this summer, about a dozen goldfinches. The birds on the cable have been flitting to and fro between the cable and the plants all around.

I haven't had a chance to look to see how the bird feeders are doing as this view has held me. Most of these birds have now gone so I shall go to look out the kitchen window.