This Instant And Moment - 2023!

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I like the Jackdaw. They are so cute. The feeder in pic is one of those anti squirrel/anti big bird ones where if something heavy sits in it it drops closing the holes. But Jackdaw are smart enough to not land and grab a seed.
Ferral pigeon on other hand are not. They land on feeder and stay for 10 seconds trying to peck the glass! :D

Had a mistle thrush in garden this year but not a regular visitor. Not enough hedging here for them. Black birds though scratching in the leaves I've left. A bit of wild patch really draws the wildlife.

Jackdaws are sneaky buggers. They are ridiculously common here. If I put bread out, they arrive in the dozens, often within seconds.

I had a hundred or so mobbing a buzzard hiding in the trees at the end of my garden last year. They REALLY don't like buzzards...

Most of my garden is unmaintained, due to laziness on my part.
 
Jackdaws are sneaky buggers. They are ridiculously common here. If I put bread out, they arrive in the dozens, often within seconds.

I had a hundred or so mobbing a buzzard hiding in the trees at the end of my garden last year. They REALLY don't like buzzards...

Most of my garden is unmaintained, due to laziness on my part.
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There are 11 birds in that pic. And loads more in the oak trees around. So many birds empty that feeder in a day.

Is nice if you can leave a garden wild. We have hedgehogs visit the log pile too which is nice to see. They will soon be back out from hibernation I expect.

Has a sparrowhawk try is luck with a pigeon once. Was amazing to see
 
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There are 11 birds in that pic. And loads more in the oak trees around. So many birds empty that feeder in a day.

Is nice if you can leave a garden wild. We have hedgehogs visit the log pile too which is nice to see. They will soon be back out from hibernation I expect.

Has a sparrowhawk try is luck with a pigeon once. Was amazing to see

Sparrowhawks take about a bird a week in next door's garden. Occasionally I see it in hot pursuit across ours.

There was a peregrine falcon on the fence at the end of his garden last year. That was weird.
 
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Peregrine in the garden! Wow. Tad jealous of that!

I'm pretty sure the sparrowhawk just had a bird in the back garden. There is a suspicious pile of feathers on the lawn that wasn't there earlier.

The cat has been asleep upstairs all morning, so it wasn't him and i rarely see other cats in the garden.
 
Really please to see my favourite bird visit my feeders today 2 greenfinch. Get a good variety now

So far:
Goldfinch. Sometimes 15 at a time. (record today!)
House sparrow
Blue tit
Great tit
Long tailed tit
Greenfinch
Jackdaw
Starling
Wood pigeon

Pic taken from my office at 11x through a window on my phone! Excuse the quality. 2 on feeder are greenfinch

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What did you you use to cut the branches, your teeth?! :D
 
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What did you you use to cut the branches, your teeth?! :D

Not much difference!
I have a chainsaw and a hedge trimmer.

The branches were too small for a chainsaw but tough for the trimmer. Don't own a pair of loppers so chewed away with either the chainsaw or the trimmer.

Thus producing the chewed look.

The entire tree is a dead conifer. So it doesn't look particularly nice anyway! Only left most of it as birds like it!
 
Really please to see my favourite bird visit my feeders today 2 greenfinch. Get a good variety now

So far:
Goldfinch. Sometimes 15 at a time. (record today!)
House sparrow
Blue tit
Great tit
Long tailed tit
Greenfinch
Jackdaw
Starling
Wood pigeon

Pic taken from my office at 11x through a window on my phone! Excuse the quality. 2 on feeder are greenfinch

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Nice, similar here although we get Chaffinches and the odd Spotted Woodpecker plus a Wren now and again, don't get many Greenfinches. Saw a Nuthatch for the first time the other day which was a nice surprise.
 
All I get is a Robin and the little bugger sits on wing mirror on car door fighting his reflection and all he achieves is loads of poo all down doors and on windows.
 
Have 4 Google Home Hubs dotted about the house, and a Google Mini in the hallway. All worked fine until about a year ago, when I guess they let the apprentice have a crack at the voice recognition software, because now they’re just pants on head retarded.

Anyway. Daughter’s being particularly difficult tonight, because 2 year old. And I guess she’s clearly not made us suffer enough today to go to sleep yet, and so she’s already broken her mum, and so she’s passed to me, but after about an hour of playing with her, singing little songs, showing her lullaby’s on Youtube, cuddling her etc, she’s finally falling asleep, but I notice she might be a little warm, so I make the fundamental error of asking the Home Hub in the room to turn our Nest Thermostat down with the words that have worked thousands of times before “Hey Google, reduce the temperature…”

But, instead of responding as it’s done thousands of times before, by reducing said temperature, it decides today’s going to be different, and instead of doing as bid, the rules have changed, and simply reduce/increase the temperature no longer suffices, and now’s the time to suddenly lecture me about how to control the thermostat, at length and at full volume in it’s robotic monotone, startling my almost asleep toddler into a full melt down.

If it wasn’t for the fact that she was on my knee, I’d have been across the room giving that ******* box a much needed brickwork facial. The term ‘smart speaker’ seems bitterly ironic.
 
Nice, similar here although we get Chaffinches and the odd Spotted Woodpecker plus a Wren now and again, don't get many Greenfinches. Saw a Nuthatch for the first time the other day which was a nice surprise.

Nuthatches are particularly cute.

Greenfinch have suffered a massive decline due to a disease and the endless loss of habitat. So they've had a double blow.

They are now on the red list. I remember them being so common when I was younger living at home



A parasitic disease is responsible for the severe declines seen in both UK Greenfinch and Chaffinch populations, say scientists in a new open-access paper in Scientific Reports, a Nature Publishing journal.

The research was carried out by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)’s Institute of Zoology (IoZ).

Chaffinch numbers dropped by 29% in the UK between 2008 and 2018, while we lost 67% of our Greenfinches over the same period. As a result, Greenfinch was moved on to the UK Red List in the most recent Birds of Conservation Concern assessment, published last year.
 
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Nuthatches are particularly cute.

Greenfinch have suffered a massive decline due to a disease and the endless loss of habitat. So they've had a double blow.

They are now on the red list. I remember them being so common when I was younger living at home



A parasitic disease is responsible for the severe declines seen in both UK Greenfinch and Chaffinch populations, say scientists in a new open-access paper in Scientific Reports, a Nature Publishing journal.

The research was carried out by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL)’s Institute of Zoology (IoZ).

Chaffinch numbers dropped by 29% in the UK between 2008 and 2018, while we lost 67% of our Greenfinches over the same period. As a result, Greenfinch was moved on to the UK Red List in the most recent Birds of Conservation Concern assessment, published last year.
Thats quite a loss! I was just reading on the RSPB site about preventing spread of disease, so will have to start cleaning the feeder and maybe even getting another to put somewhere else.
 
Very first world problem but our cleaning lady is no longer able to clean, she's amazing and always leaves the house spotless. Now we have to take the plunge for a new cleaner which is always something I find quite awkward (ie. do they clean to the standards that you expect).

I know I know, very first world problem as I said, but for us it's quite an important element.
 
Thats quite a loss! I was just reading on the RSPB site about preventing spread of disease, so will have to start cleaning the feeder and maybe even getting another to put somewhere else.

Yes. Regular cleaning is important. No conclusive evidence on feeder disease transmission but lots of birds mix closer together at feeders. It's important to clean them.

Many feeders now can be completely taken apart. I put mine in the dishwasher
 
Very first world problem but our cleaning lady is no longer able to clean, she's amazing and always leaves the house spotless. Now we have to take the plunge for a new cleaner which is always something I find quite awkward (ie. do they clean to the standards that you expect).

I know I know, very first world problem as I said, but for us it's quite an important element.

Had a cleaner for first time 2 weeks ago. Amazing. Just takes the load off my mind of endlessly thinking about but not doing it.
 
Had a cleaner for first time 2 weeks ago. Amazing. Just takes the load off my mind of endlessly thinking about but not doing it.

We've always had one - I grew up in countries where having a maid / help is normal, so I kinda felt lost without the additional help! :o

Don't get me wrong, it's not as if we do nothing, we clean, vacuum as we go (I hate untidiness!) but the deep 3hr clean that they do in all the nooks and crannies is absolutely ace.

As you say it means that you know once or twice a week you're going to have a really well cleaned home.

Ours airs the house, cleans the windows, hoovers, dusts, does the window sills, bathrooms, but also lifts stuff off work tops / tables and cleans under things. Once a month the oven is done too. They have a key to the house and it's just great knowing we'll come home to a clean house!
 
We've always had one - I grew up in countries where having a maid / help is normal, so I kinda felt lost without the additional help! :o

Don't get me wrong, it's not as if we do nothing, we clean, vacuum as we go (I hate untidiness!) but the deep 3hr clean that they do in all the nooks and crannies is absolutely ace.

As you say it means that you know once or twice a week you're going to have a really well cleaned home.

Ours airs the house, cleans the windows, hoovers, dusts, does the window sills, bathrooms, but also lifts stuff off work tops / tables and cleans under things. Once a month the oven is done too. They have a key to the house and it's just great knowing we'll come home to a clean house!

I've come to a salary point where I really do not want to clean for an entire Saturday morning when I only have 2 days a week off. She comes every fortnight. The robot vacuum takes the role rest of the time.


She does similar to yours. Means I only have my office to clean myself.


Once a fortnight is OK for me.
 
I've come to a salary point where I really do not want to clean for an entire Saturday morning when I only have 2 days a week off. She comes every fortnight. The robot vacuum takes the role rest of the time.


She does similar to yours. Means I only have my office to clean myself.


Once a fortnight is OK for me.

We have 2 kids, and regular visits from people with dogs and kids (and we live in the countryside) so the house gets trashed! :D

Similar to your my office is cleaned by me generally as I'm sometimes home when they're here - but also I prefer to do it myself.
 
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