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Eek - ...........is.......that........a..........rat.........Here's an unusual bird on our bird feeder (taken in December) sorry about the fuzzy photos, it was taken through the van window.View attachment 53807View attachment 53808
Eek - ...........is.......that........a..........rat.........
We had them about 8/9 years ago and the council put poison down several times. Flipping things ignored it but the poor mice that we always seem to have loved it. Problem was we had lots of mice staggering about the garden and the dogs went after themThat's what I thought as well Debs.
Shhhhhhh but we use poison for them. Can't stand the nasty dirty verminous things.
Next door (animal rights people) had one in their kitchen and didn't know what it was. When I told them it was a rat I was told it couldn't be as it was such a sweet little thing. They went on holiday and left us their keys (as usual) - the rat was gone to the run in the sky when they got back
Yep it was a rat. That was taken on a British campsite before we started travelling. I think we inadvertently encourage it by putting bird feeders out on our pitch.Eek - ...........is.......that........a..........rat.........
Apologies if not probably just me seeing them everywhere as we have them in the garden at the mo I'm just going on the tail and I know you're abroad
Apologies to Dave for hijacking his thread.
Ok, can you identify this. I will tell you it was blown off course and should not have been at Spurn Point twitchers were coming from all over the country to see it and it was that close they could not get their mega camera lenses to focus so were using mobile phones, it had no fear of humans or cats and after 3 days the cat was licking its chops.View attachment 53842View attachment 53843
It looks like a can of Strongbow to me, not Woodpecker.
John.
Is it a flying Squirrel.
@DavidG58 close but no cigar, think twitchers from all over UK has to be rarer than that,
Quick Quick, we have a ferry to catch today.
Apologies to Dave for hijacking his thread.
Ok, can you identify this. I will tell you it was blown off course and should not have been at Spurn Point twitchers were coming from all over the country to see it and it was that close they could not get their mega camera lenses to focus so were using mobile phones, it had no fear of humans or cats and after 3 days the cat was licking its chops.View attachment 53842View attachment 53843
I didn't read the full comment, just looked at the photos, pretty much the norm for me
Post without reading fully
But I have peaked at snipe, I guess it might be part of the snipe family, but that is the extent of my twitching, need some higher level knowledge @Bertie Bassett any ideas BB
edit - it might help if I repeated what we are talking about
We have feeders in front and back gardens and get plenty of birds on them but there must be plenty of natural food - or other feeders in neighbouring gardens - at the moment as the levels aren't going down as quickly as I would expect.
Nice photo of the bullfinch. Every time I try to get one on our feeder he flies off
We live less than 1/2 mile from the town and the only birds we get are quite a few Magpies and a couple of wood pigeons. I've put numerous fat balls up which go black and disintegrate, Dried mealworms and bird seed feeders which go mouldy, I've also hung a nest box but we get ZILCH, but go into the town and you see the odd wagtail or sparrow. This morning I saw a pair of blackbirds routing on our front lawn so I've been out and put some mealworms on the lawn and in the borders as I know blackbirds are ground feeders don't know what else I can do.
John.
Ok ok, is anyone gonna ask what they are?
Can't compete with woodpeckers but I get coal tits and goldfinches, and we have 2 red kites on our estate - they have great battles with the crows...We've had all sorts on the feeders at work, blackbirds, pigeons, magpies, great tits, blue tits, long tailed tits, robins, lots of sparrows and even a couple of woodpeckers last year. We regularly have up to six buzzards soaring overhead too.
D.
Its a Buzzard T...but as Im on my phone"!!!!!!