The Breeding Season

As from now until the end of the breeding season birds of a sensitive nature will be omitted from this blog due to a small percentage of undesirables who take their pleasure from egg collecting, nest destroying and the killing and trapping of birds.
Reports of non breeding birds moving through the area will still be published. BS
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Stopping the House Sparrow cull

Sparrowhawk guard

Drastic measures have had to be taken in my front garden against the local Sparrowhawks after staring to loose 1 House Sparrow a day at least . The sparrows now come out of the Hawthorn and can feed behind the shield without worrying about being snatched off the fat balls in the talons of a hungry Sparrowhawk and Lynda can get on with her housework without standing guard. Everyones happy apart from the Sparrowhawk but you can,t please everyone.
A few Meadow Pipits were moving >W first thing this morning along with several Swallows >SW but otherwise quiet skies in the showers and drizzle.
38 Common gull were on the football pitch in Foxhill park at 0630hrs this morning with all but 5 gone by 0730hrs.
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2 comments:

DJSutcliffe said...

Drastic measures indeed. I'm still trying to get round the Grey Squirrel fiasco.

Brian Sumner said...

Thats not a problem up here although one year we had one visiting and ragging the nuts. Bit cold in Queensbury, they tend to end up with frozen nuts.