Hi all i'm new to the forums, plus new to bird watching.
I now live in Kettering, I moved here February 2009, i have always been interested in bird watching but in my old house we never have any in my garden apart from Starling and sarrows.
so i was really happy when after moving in and putting up feeders we had a geat range of birds. The birds we had the most are Goldfinchs, blackbirds, blue tits, Coal tits, Long-tailed tits, Great tits, Crows, Chaffinchs, Robins, Collared doves, Woodpigeons, Starlings, Song thrushs, Wrens, GreatSpotted Woodpeckers, Greenfinchs, Magpies, Fieldfares, wagtail, and Redwings, Sparrowhawks
Plus I have had Red Kites flying over.
I'm still leaning my birds, and I'm trying to get as many photos as I can, I'm new to taking photos as well, lol
Hey farmer, farmer, put away the D.D.T now. Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please!
Welcome to the forum I'm a newbie as well and get almost all of the birds you get but no Red Kite, although my daughter up near aberdeen gets Red Kite
Its nice to be important but its more important to be nice
Hi Janet,
Welcome to the forum,you have a great range of birds were you are it must be fab ,look forward to your posts.
john.
Welcome to the forum Janet!! Superb selection of birds you have there!
"All weeds are flowers, once you get to know them" (Eeyore)
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Welcome Janet and, in case I haven't said it elsewhere, welcome Papapete also. It's good to have you both join us. I am sure you will enjoy it here.
The necessity of bird-watching is a really good reason for avoiding all forms of housework.
The dust will still be there tomorrow - the birds may not be!
Hello Janet,
Welcome to the RSPB Community, which I hope you will enjoy as well as make new friends and learn loads. Feel free to upload any of your photos, we would all love to see them and if you have any questions don't be afraid to ask, we are all happy to help!
Thank you all, its nice to talk about birds, I have a range of food we feed them all with,
Peanuts, wild bird food with other seeds added, back sunflower seeds, fat balls, mealworm, Nyjer seeds plus our own mix, which is brown bread with seeds cheese peanuts and apples all chopped up in a food processor.
we get old bread from our supermarket, we try to get brown seeded bread, the birds love it.
Looking out my garden now we have 12 backbirds, 4 robins 10 woodpigeons 9 collared doves lots of sparrows 6 chaffinchs lots of tits all types, two magpies and 8 goldfinchs.
Never seen so many birds in one place, my husband still says we don't have enough blackbirds for a pie. lol
Hello Janet and a warm welcome to the forum.
Regards Buzzard
Nature Is Amazing - Let Us Keep It That Way
Welcome to the forum Janet!
Millie & Fly the Border Collies
Welcome to the forum,
I can't believe how many different birds you have! Your own bread mix sounds interesting.
Cheers, Linda.
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Hello Janet. You definitely have a bird friendly garden.