Jan's Wildlife Forum - part deux (88)
JuneauBlairgowrie, Tayside, Scotland UK87 Threads 34 Polls 2,947 Posts
Juneau: Helloooooooooooooo!!
Sorry ... have only just read your reply! Am not on here too much nowadays, but am still definitley on, so please keep leaving your lovely wildlife posts. I am ALWAYS interested!!
If you pardon the pun...I am just flying by just now, but will be back very soon. Just saw this video of one of my favourite bird families and thought of CS's Wildlife Bit! Crows are renowned for sledging down snow-covered roofs, but I have never seen one on a sledge!! Crowboarding!!
Sorry ... have only just read your reply! Am not on here too much nowadays, but am still definitley on, so please keep leaving your lovely wildlife posts. I am ALWAYS interested!!
If you pardon the pun...I am just flying by just now, but will be back very soon. Just saw this video of one of my favourite bird families and thought of CS's Wildlife Bit! Crows are renowned for sledging down snow-covered roofs, but I have never seen one on a sledge!! Crowboarding!!
Hey great, a crow snow boarding - brilliant !
Juneau: BUMP
Sorry jan have flat and no garden any suggestions? Saw this and thought of this thread Tomcats2: Sorry jan have flat and no garden any suggestions? Saw this and thought of this thread
Blimey!!!! Looks like his feet have started growing before his body!!! .... RE: the Big Garden Birdwatch: if you don't have a garden, just pop over to a local park and take some bits and pieces of food.
Just found a song about a moose!! 
"I am a Very Handsome Moose"
"I am a Very Handsome Moose"
Juneau: Just found a song about a moose!!
"I am a Very Handsome Moose"
Glad you found th moose song Jan know how much you love them"I am a Very Handsome Moose"
Tomcats2: Glad you found th moose song Jan know how much you love them
he he
I'd made a large amount of bird cake for today and as we had a sharp frost this morning, the birds were queuing as usual on the fence and wall from early on waiting for me to put the cake out 
So here's my results for 29th January, taken between 9am and 10am for the RSPB Birdwatch :
Robins 2
Blackbirds 9
Magpies 4
Starlings 16
Doves 7
Bluetits 3
Sparrow 3
So here's my results for 29th January, taken between 9am and 10am for the RSPB Birdwatch :
Robins 2
Blackbirds 9
Magpies 4
Starlings 16
Doves 7
Bluetits 3
Sparrow 3
bestbefore: I'm moving to Scotland
Yeeeeeaaah! Come on up...the weather's barmy.......
and so am I!!!
You got tons of birdies anyway! I just went a bit over the top with the food! Also, I decided to dedicate the whole of the middle of the day to birdwatching! I was watching for 3 hours in total, and just picked out the best hour, which was 1-2pm. I have learnt to do that from previous years, of watching for an hour and hardly getting any birds...so I just started over, with another hour to see if it changed....and it did! It is still only recorded over a 1-hour period though.
Typical though...got up this morning and there were 6 goldfinches, 5 siskins and tons of other birds!!
By the way, on the RSPB website, they want to know your address, but you don't have to give them any other details if you don't want...just your results.
Good time of day to you,Jan!
Finally I took a picture of those woodpecker holes .... now I need to find out how to put them on here .... lol Somebody help me!
Finally I took a picture of those woodpecker holes .... now I need to find out how to put them on here .... lol Somebody help me!
Konigsberg: Good time of day to you,Jan! Finally I took a picture of those woodpecker holes .... now I need to find out how to put them on here .... lol Somebody help me!
bit of ESP going on there I keep trying to post a photo from my collection of pictures I have saved from Google searches (just nice ones that I like) I clicked on properties and then 'open with' and then 'Internet Explorer', and then copied and pasted the address that was showing in the address bar, plus put the 
at the beginning and end..... but it hasn't come out 
This is a picture thread, so I can't understand what I am doing wrong
Any advice would be welcome
This is a picture thread, so I can't understand what I am doing wrong
Any advice would be welcome
I wasn't sure where to add this, thought it was interesting.
PureGold36: I wasn't sure where to add this, thought it was interesting.
I watched this on T.V. and found it fascinating and somewhat worrying too!
Hi
Wow! Yes, I watched that documentary too....absolutely amazing!!
Thanks for posting!
Wow! Yes, I watched that documentary too....absolutely amazing!!
Thanks for posting!
Took lots of photos of the birds feeding in the garden today so will post them on when I find out how to!
There were actually loads more than on the day of the Big Garden Birdwatch! Typical!
My back garden is completely in the shade throughout the winter, but now there is a little bit of sun creeping back in...it is so cheery and just illuminates everything! I had actually taken a few photos of the birds feeding during the Birdwatch, but it was so dull that the light levels were hopeless.
Need to win the lottery so I can get myself a decent camera
There were actually loads more than on the day of the Big Garden Birdwatch! Typical!
My back garden is completely in the shade throughout the winter, but now there is a little bit of sun creeping back in...it is so cheery and just illuminates everything! I had actually taken a few photos of the birds feeding during the Birdwatch, but it was so dull that the light levels were hopeless. Need to win the lottery so I can get myself a decent camera
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Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Opened a new photobucket account just now and managed to post this photo!! At long last!!
Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Opened a new photobucket account just now and managed to post this photo!! At long last!!Juneau: Yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Opened a new photobucket account just now and managed to post this photo!! At long last!!
Love the pic Jan these are for you Norfolk lass
Tomcats2: Love the pic Jan these are for you Norfolk lass
thankyou - he was just a 'test' really, to see if I could post a photo, but I do love that picture. Was brought up on the Haddiscoe marshes and was surrounded by cattle, so I have a soft spot for them 
PS. Did you ever manage to get to a park to do the Big Garden Birdwatch?
Winter Bird Food ---How to make bird feeding balls
Makes 12 balls each about 100g
Melt 250gs of vegetable lard in a pan.
Mix together 200gs each of course wheatmeal, seeds and chopped sultanas.
Keep about 5 tablespoons of this mixture to one side.
Pour the fat mixture over the remaining mixture and leave to cool.
Once the fat begins to solidify squash palmfuls into round balls.
Cut even lengths of string and thread through the ball with a blunt instrument making a knot at one end.Spread the remaining mixture over the balls and hang them from trees or bird table.
I have put them in a feeder and the odd one or two on the ground for the robins,blackbirds etc.
Enjoy---- the birds certainly will in this cold weather.
Makes 12 balls each about 100g
Melt 250gs of vegetable lard in a pan.
Mix together 200gs each of course wheatmeal, seeds and chopped sultanas.
Keep about 5 tablespoons of this mixture to one side.
Pour the fat mixture over the remaining mixture and leave to cool.
Once the fat begins to solidify squash palmfuls into round balls.
Cut even lengths of string and thread through the ball with a blunt instrument making a knot at one end.Spread the remaining mixture over the balls and hang them from trees or bird table.
I have put them in a feeder and the odd one or two on the ground for the robins,blackbirds etc.
Enjoy---- the birds certainly will in this cold weather.
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