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Posted on March 4, 2018

Bird feeding and tracking notes, March 2018

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…

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Posted on October 12, 2017October 12, 2017

The cawing of the crow resounds among the woods | Nathaniel Hawthorne’s journal entry for October 12th, 1841

Originally posted on Biblioklept:
October 12th.–The cawing of the crow resounds among the woods. A sentinel is aware of your approach a great way off, and gives the alarm to his…

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Posted on October 9, 2016

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…

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Posted on August 7, 2016

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…

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Posted on July 16, 2016

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…

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Posted on May 22, 2016

Happy International Day for Biological Diversity!

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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Posted on May 20, 2016

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…

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Posted on April 23, 2016

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…

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