Hi everyone I'm so excited, just had to tell everyone, I've been feeling so sorry for the Song Thrush I've had visiting, he/she has been getting mobbed and chased away by the Blakbirds whenever he comes to my garden for a feed, and he's been getting so nervous of late with the Blackbirds now in pairs attacking him, and all on his own while I have noticed lot's of my birds pairing up, I had wondered if he would find a mate with them being so scarce now, AND HE HAS, he turned up today with his own mate, with a mate for support now I hope the Blackbirds might leave him alone. I don't suppose they will though with all the fighting for there patch of land now spring is on it's way.
Being new to this, I don't know but does it ever happen that some birds won't find a mate and miss a breeding season.
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I have been in my (new build) house for nearly 8 years and the snow in January brought my first song thrush to the garden.I thought it might just have been looking for food because of the weather but a month on I can say it visits the garden regularly.It does get chased by the resident blackbirds but still keeps turning up!
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Hi Madpenguin, lets hope he/ she finds a mate soon. They seem such gentle souls, mine are still being chased away by the Blackbirds, they do manage a few mouthfuls before they get chased off though.
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My two song thrushes turned into three today. It's got to be the raisins bringing them in.
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Hi Squirrel, well done with your 3 song thrushes.
Your 3rd one may be mine, who has been missing for 3 or 4 days. I am quite worried about him, and am just hoping he is with a mate somewhere else.
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Thats brilliant Squirrel, you'll end up with quite a brood round yours then,
Hi Sparrow, you do worry about them don't you. I only saw my original one once today, the new found mate has been around a few times.
Ooh and I forgot to say, one of the house sparrows that sits on top of my ivy, has finaly come down for a feed, I've been feeding the birds now since all that bad snow we got that lasted a couple of weeks, and all that time they have been sitting up there, ignoring all the food out there in the garden, when the snow was bad I was willing them down just wishing they would come and have a feed knowing what a bad time of it they were having, I was begining to think they would never come down into the garden, are they normally that suspicious.
Hi BBB,
Great one of your sparrows has ventured down. Where one goes the others follow. They do like to feed together. I'm sure they wouldn't have sat up in your ivy with food on the ground if they had been hungry. They are very sociable and gregarious little creatures, although do get spooked quite easily if there is a large bird flying past. Mine dive into the hedge when the jackdaws or pigeons leave, but they are there, peeping. During the snow, mine all fed on the ground for some reason. They normally prefer to be a bit higher up and like my fence mounted trays the best, and now the snow has gone, they have returned to the trays. They like sunflower hearts, peanut granules and mixed seed but don't like rape seed. This used to get tossed out, so I don't buy seed with it in any more. They like their feeders close to a hedge.
I hope you end up with a whole colony at your feeders.