Where are the magpies? October edition
At the end of March, I wondered, where are the magpies? In July, I noted that there were indeed magpies and helpfully I reblogged James Common’s excellent post on whether magpies do indeed “kill all…
Tag: bird feeding
Bird feeding notes, end of August
In recent weeks bird activity around feeders has definitively picked up. Like the return to school, this is a harbinger of autumn and behind that, winter. Certainly feeding birds in a deliberate,…
Bird feeding notes, mid August
In recent days, bird feeding has picked up again after a lull of some weeks – I noted this before but the pace has picked up . I unsure whether this…
Bird feeding notes, early August
It’s been a while since my last bird feeding note and I have noted a relative silence in the garden of late, except for a resurgence of the magpie population. There is always a…
Three a girl … – the return of magpies
I have blogged here and here about the relative lack of magpies in my garden. As is probably obvious, I have recently been in Donegal and in the last week was away again. So my focus…
Bird feeding notes in late April
As posted previously, I have taken an increasing interest in birds and feeding them in the garden. One of the many interesting and (in my view) edifying things about this is another…
Where are the magpies?
Since getting back into birding, the daily species count in my garden is usually in the low to mid teens. But there is one notable absentee – the magpie. The…
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