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Rather sadly, a topic I have directly experienced myself. James Common Diseases among bird populations are on the increase and, as a growing number of households take to feeding their…
Been a while since I <a href="https://seamhow much a local cat frequents our gardenussweeney.wordpress.com/2017/07/16/bird-feeding-notes-mid-july/”>I published bird-feeding notes. I was perhaps chastened by my unintended killing of greenfinches and felt there…
A month on from the imaginatively titled “Bird feeding in Mid March” here are some random thoughts and observations on bird feeding in Mid April. The mix of birds is roughly…
Continuing my occasional bird feeding notes – but this time with original pictures! The wonderfully-shot Wild Ireland documentary inspired me to reconsider my childhood dream job – wildlife photographer/cameraman. Why did this…
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…
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,…
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…
The UN, no less, have declared 22nd May to be International Day for Biological Diversity! Normally I am pretty sceptical of these kinds of “official” days for this and that. However, they…
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