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In reply to Peewit:
Lovely photos Kathy, I do love the posh Hedgehog ceramic feeding dish! I have not seen a spaceship type fat ball feeder, different. The family of tits are cute, they look like young ones?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
In reply to Catlady:
Regards
Kathy and Dave
In reply to Linda257:
In reply to William Parsons:
William Parsons said:Have never had a woodpecker in the garden. But is on my wanted list.
Well I do hope you get a visit from one soon William as they are such colourful lovely birds...or perhaps Kathy could send you one of hers over as she says she has 3 pairs! Lol
You can have a look in the link below of all my garden visitors for the past 3 years or so if you like but I do warn I get lots of visitors ;-)
https://community.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/f/all-creatures/282077/in-my-garden-2023/1421720#1421720
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
Thank you for your kind comment William. I really hope that a GSW will be in your garden before you know it. They love peanuts and mostly land on Peanut feeders To explain my 3 pairs of GSW. We have a large area of grassed land over the back of our garden wall that is used as a cow field on occasions. Where we live is surrounded 3 sides by farmland. In the field over our back garden wall, there is a selection of broadleaved trees in a row on the left hand side, a few trees if you look down the middle of the field in the distance,and trees sitting a row facing us on the right of the field. So our 3 sets of woodpeckers have their own trees. One pair on the left in the trees, one pair in the trees in the distance and we have a scope in our upstairs bedroom to observe all if their movements. Finally, of course another pair live in the trees in the right hand side. It is although they are all aware of each other and stay out of each others way at all costs. They seem to take turns on the feeders because they want to be polite to one another. LOL. It took Dave and I a few months to work out that we where not seeing the same individual Woodpeckers on our feeders because they are territorial birds and will not tolerate one another on any feeders. Just interesting to find out and observe as part of the enjoyment of our birds.
I remember what the spaceship feeder is called now and it is a doughnut feeder. It has six or more ball shape holders so you can place indivual.fat ball in one hole. The birds do not realise that and shove each other out of the way when they want all the balls for one bird. Eyes are bigger than their bellies of course LOL
"To explain my 3 pairs of GSW. We have a large area of grassed land over the back of our garden wall that is used as a cow field on occasions.
Where we live is surrounded 3 sides by farmland. In the field over our back garden wall, there is a selection of broadleaved trees in a row on the left hand side, a few trees if you look down the middle of the field in the distance,and trees sitting a row facing us on the right of the field.
So our 3 sets of woodpeckers have their own trees. One pair on the left in the trees, one pair in the trees in the distance and we have a scope in our upstairs bedroom to observe all if their movements. Finally, of course another pair live in the trees in the right hand side.
It is although they are all aware of each other and stay out of each others way at all costs. They seem to take turns on the feeders because they want to be polite to one another. LOL.
It took Dave and I a few months to work out that we where not seeing the same individual Woodpeckers on our feeders because they are territorial birds and will not tolerate one another on any feeders."
It was me that asked the question Kathy not William !
Lol..one scope can see 3 pairs all at the same time...that's amazing !!! And to have an unrestricted view into their trees all from a window with one scope...you are truly a very experienced birder...oh and Dave aswell!.....I am sure I could learn lots from you in the future ;-)
I have typed up my answer to the GSW now
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