Garden Visitors*

Lovely to have so many feathered visitors.
Your home-made feeders are great ! :o)

Thanke Terra I have just this minute sent you a PM XX

lovely blog carole and a happy newyear to you and harry and family, my neighbour at the back has a nesting box on garage and iv noticed casper sitting on top so i must warn my neighbour, naughty casper ;o) great pics carole

smashing blog, lovely photos too

great pictures, nice to see the jay, don't see them very often here.

A great selection of birds are visiting your garden PP. You have some great ideas there with your homemade feeders, I especially like the hanging one with the tubing and shall have a go myself with it! We get a few long tail tits but I've never managed to get a pic of them either. :o( I have just finished talking to my sister in Norfolk and she was telling me that she had a flock of about 30 of these birds feeding in her laburnum tree! She said it was a truly amazing sight and probably one never to be seen again. :o))

Lovely pictures and blog,Carole.I love the jay,i have never seen one here.Our blackbirds and thrushes seem to gang up on the sparrow family..its hard work feeding them all though,isn't it ? Harry has done a great job with the feeders..something so simple,but they will appreciate the extra feeding stations...Thankfully,it has given it to come a bit milder this week..may get out in the garden a bit,to see if anything is starting to grow..

Thanks everyone for your kind comments,
Sanbaz I have seen next doors cat prowling around I just bang on the window but you can't be there all the time and it is nature, but I would be so upset if one of the little birds was killed just because I was putting out food, can't win can you?
Lily that must have ben amazing! I have heard that when they nest there are around 20-30 forming a great big ball that would really be something to see'0)

Sandra it is a lot of work but worth it just to see them feeding, I have had a wander around the garden to see whats happening, not a lot looking! closely could see signs of a few bulbs starting to poke through, a few plants looking the worse for wear and others lookng ok, but very few flowers, maybe next month things will start showing signs of life;0)

Lovely blog Carole, and great pics....especially the Long-tailed Tits. They are so hard to catch...we don't get them often here but the odd time, you can here them piping down the garden. Smashing to see them up close! Lovely Jay too....isn't it great when you know the birds are enjoying what you've done?
Happy New Year to you and yours!

Wonderful blog Carole love those Robin photos, good on Harry, making ups some more feeders for you well done Harry.

Brilliant blog, PP. Those little long tailed tits are so beautiful and, as you say, so fast! You're lucky to have the Jay visiting too. Often watching the birds is more entertaining that any programme on TV :)

Thanks Janey The Long Tails are hard to catch on camera as they are flying about everywhere, but now the feeders are up in frint of my window I do get a better chance , they gorgeous aren't they!

Thanks Sixpence pleased you like the pictures the Robin is the nations favourite bird;0)
Thanks Gee I agree better that TV any day;0)

Nice to see birds in the garden. You've done well to get photos of them

Thanks Hywel, it not easy as most are taken form through the window [still a bit chilly to stand around outside]

Happy New year to you PP.... lovely pics....

Smashing blog and photos Carole. I will always think of your OH as 'Handy Harry' from now on ! Happy New Year mate. :-)

Thanks Holly and Muddy[ will let Handy Harry know his new name lol Happy New Year to you too;0)

I was in the garden when 10 longtails dived onto the feeder & they totally ignored me at only 7 or 8 feet away, quite incredible few moments. All I could think of was how I wish I had the camera! There constant hyper activity & comunication chatter is such an endearing thing to see & hear. Generally they pop down in 5 or 6's so ten was brilliant & good to know these tiny birds are competing well with the harsh winter. I'll pop some of my photo's up but through double glazing plus being back-lite they are not good photo's but still fun trying to get the little rascal's in action.

Hi Bampy its an amazing sight to see them flitting about everywhere, I hear them them first as the feeders are right outside my window! will look out for your pictures;0)

Hi Carole loved reading brilliant blog and seeing all the lucky birds dining on your many excellent feeders. Clever hubby like mine who will always help if I have a project but not able to carry out the making of equipment.

Hi GSue pleased you enjoyed the pictures and blog. Its great to have hubby who will help, Harry is great at DIY so I make sure he keeps busy lol

Hi Pp, loved your blog, very cheerful on such a miserably drizzly day. Aren't you lucky to have such a great diy-er :-)

Thanks Ba pleased you liked the blog and yes I am lucky with my very own Handy Man and he is very much appreciated;0))

What fantastic photos of the Long Tailed Tits, PP! :-)) I can't recall ever having seen them before. I've seen other Tits but not these. Never seen a Jay either, though as a boy I can remember being fascinated by them!

I'd like to do something for the birds here myself but with so many people coming & going all hours of the day they would never settle down.

We do see Sparrows though, especially at nest building time. They come into our balcony & steal threads of off my conical hanging baskets. They have coconut fibre lining. I just love to see them fighting over a strand, just trying to get it free. :-))

Oh Pansy, all your efforts are so paying off. Brilliant. Great blog and pics.

Balcony. We get long tailed tits and jays but no house sparrows, lucky you. Quite rural here but sadly I suspect a neighbour last year shot jays as i found a few dead ones in our woodland, about 4 in 2 weeks. :-((((((. What can u do, I think they fall into the vermin bracket like magpies :-((

Oh Dawn thast is so upsetting such colourful and magestic birds!

I agree Pansy, they are so beautiful with gorgeous markings.