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During ten minutes at lunchtime these were some of the birds
that came to the feeders. The wood pigeon
likes to sit on the mesh tray, filling its crop with grain.
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Wild Bird Seed
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Sunflower hearts and seed
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Greenfinches have a preference for sunflower
seeds and I've now started putting sunflower seeds
in the feeder I used to fill with a wild bird seed mixture.
They'll also go for peanuts and occasionally for the niger
seed.
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| Goldfinches
are on the niger feeder most of the day but
they'll also go for the sunflower seed. They've started occasionally
visiting the sunflower feeder in the front garden too.
Considering that these colourful finches were infrequent
visitors in past years, I'm delighted that these days you're
more likely to see them than not. |
Niger Seed
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  At
the front the ivy berries are still attracting the blackbirds,
there's a single male there this morning, while a wagtail (not sure whether
this is pied or grey) perches on the rooftop next door.
Richard Bell, richard@willowisland.co.uk |
