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: garden birds
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, 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…
Stealth cat
This morning I sat looking out at the garden, at the patch of grass I previously mentioned here as a hiding place for the local cat. Or a local cat. This morning,…
An eerie silence in the garden.
Early today I saw a rustle in the patch of grass in the middle of the garden, and a cat emerged, lethargically fleeing. Probably not coincidentally, there were far fewer…
Bird feeding notes late May
Not quite a month after the April update … some miscellaneous thoughts and observations Apples definitely are out of the season for garden birds. Goldfinches have largely disappeared whereas about…
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…
Séamus Sweeney 