Onlyfoolsrushin
Striker
Some have arrived in the South. A swallow was reported yesterday.
Nesting birds taking up Nest Boxes
- Thread starter Swindon On Tour
- Start date
Swindon On Tour
Striker
On the look out for them but no sign just yet.
tunstall birdman
Striker
Cannot wait to see them back, their flight is majestic to watch!!
Swindon On Tour
Striker
Cannot wait to see them back, their flight is majestic to watch!!
We used to get Sand Martins closed to where I used to live.
They nested in the banks of the gravel pits.
used to knack up several quarries I worked in - now we set an area aside and just wait for them like old pals coming back every year
family of magpies running amok here, enjoying the quiet
Post them on here if you doWe have been living where we are now for over 2 years and every time we pass a little wooded copse near the farm by the Wear. I say to the missus 'Perfect Habitat for little owls that'...
Found them on Thursday afternoon being pestered by Grey Squirrels... Buzzing.
I know of 5 little owl sites in and around the NE (Some I've Photographed very successfully) but never one so close to where I live. I know the farmer too so he may just let me put my pop up hide in the field and take some snaps
The seagulls arnt
No leftover kebabs to quander
Our local residents association are paying for a bloke with a Harris Hawk to fly it around and scare the gulls from nesting in the big posh houses.
All it means is they’ll move back into town where they’ve been a massive nuisance for years and the Council paid to chase them out, or they’ll end up plaguing some poorer folks down the way who can’t afford to hire a deterrent.
Nice work for the hawker bloke I guess.
BROOMFIELD
Full Back
Couple of Blue Tits starting to use the bird box, class watching them.
Quinninho
Striker
Theres a link to my Flickr feed in the photography forum. If I get any of this new family they will go up on there. (Some little owl pics on Flickr already)
Swindon On Tour
Striker
Horrible birds taking chicks and eggs at every opportunity.
Quinninho
Striker
I was sitting in the living room last summer and watched a magpie take blue a tit fledging from the tree where its nest was and eat it on on the neighbour's fence post.
First time I'd ever seen such behaviour.
They are a menace like but incredibly intelligent. Jays are just as bad mind - but far prettier.
Cheers, I always forget about that bit of the forum
Never a problem when I was a lad as kids had air guns to thin them out
Swindon On Tour
Striker
They work the hedgerows listening to chicks making a noise then they will wait until it’s clear and destroy the contents.
Always on the look out here. The farmer backing on to our garden always telling me to shoot them
Always have mine at the ready.
Last edited:
Saw a dead swan decimated by the river yesterday. Hope it was a fox and not some eejit who had driven to the racecourse’s dog. (Not sure where to put the ‘s in that sentence.)
black and white bastards ransacked the poor blackbird last year
Swindon On Tour
Striker
Horrible bastards. Get an air rifle mate.
Tuono
Winger
The last few days with so little background noise I can hear woodpeckers tapping on trees to announce their territory about 1 mile away from my house. There's two in a local wood at it all day long. I haven't spotted (see what I done there) them yet so don't know what species they are.
