If it has yellow on it I can't see what else it can be other than a siskin. They're only marginally bigger than a blue tit and asterix admits he only saw them once in a tree and is no expert.
Bumper year for birds?
- Thread starter PaulB
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For the past few years a couple of pairs of wild mallards hang round our garden at this time of year before disappearing, presumably to nest somewhere else. They've become increasingly tame, to the extent that if I appear at the kitchen window, they will move to the living room patio door, expecting bread to be thrown to them. Come April, that is usually the last we see of them until the following year.
This year, we had a bit of a change:
Then a drake appears.......
This year, we had a bit of a change:
Then a drake appears.......
Julia9054
Guru
- Location
- Knaresborough
Parakeets? Is this a southern thing? I've never seen one in Yorkshire!
YahudaMoon
Über Member
Great Crested Grebes in Manchester
Never seen one before
Never seen one before
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
Yes, I believe it is. They're all over the place down here and I think they're extending their range but not that far north as far as I know. Maybe we could ask for the most northern sighting on here.
Sara_H
Guru
I've seen a pair of parakeets in my local park (sheffield), but nothing like the display you see in the parks in london.
Lots of birds in my garden in Sheffield, mainly sparrows, robins and blue tits. Also lots of pigeons, infact I've now use pigeon proof feeders as they scoff the lot before anyone else has a chance. They now stand below the feeders waiting for the smaller birds to drop them a few bits!
jayonabike
Powered by caffeine & whisky
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Plenty of Red Kites round here. And the heron that sits on the roof 4 houses down is about a couple of times a week. When I'm in my lorry on the road between Potters Bar and Enfield at around 3.30 a.m once or twice a week I see a beautiful Barn Owl resting on a fence post.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I remember watching a parakeet standing by while a woodpecker worked a grub of some sort out from the bark. Once the woodpecker had got it near the surface, the parakeet swooped in and took it. Meanwhile, I'm surprised that they've got that far north. I was on a family cruise on the Rhine last summer and I was surprised to hear them there. So their range is now pretty large.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Grey Wagtails perhaps ?
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
Our bird table and feeder thingy get denuded of food daily. They are a right bunch of gannets in our cul-de-sac.
Sara_H
Guru
I was surprised myself. I didn't know what they were when I saw them, but a colleague of mine who lives nearby and is a dedicated twitcher told me he 's also seen them and that hey were parakeets. He seems to think they're an escaped pair of ex captive birds.
djb1971
Legendary Member
- Location
- Far Far Away
Don't show her this one then! They regularly pluck birds here in our garden, its the way of life.
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
"My" sparrowhawk is now a regular visitor to the garden but less successful hunting-wise as the birds as learned to flee and to not come back too soon as she learned to hide just out of sight... Fascinating watching them adapt and learn.
threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
- Location
- ...on the slake
We've got loads of visitors now after a lacklustre start; blackbirds, blue tits, robins, sparrows.
We do get pigeons too, pesky great heffers, Mrs 3BM says that they're birds too but I hate them and wish they'd fark off and die.
We do get pigeons too, pesky great heffers, Mrs 3BM says that they're birds too but I hate them and wish they'd fark off and die.
