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Ellis
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Lovely!
Wild bird numbers are low again in my area this year - no siskins, coal tits, marsh or willow tits, wrens but at least there are bats nesting under the eaves.
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Ray White
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We are also noticing that there are fewer migrating birds. Probably all been shot down over Malta.  |
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JohnDale
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Hi Rick, by the yellow beaks,they look like Blackbirds, not Robins. Robin has a short black beak. Plenty of both here but lots of birds not around. Have a Robin which sits on the back of the tractor when I'm cutting grass, hopping off to pick up whatever morsel I uncover & then catches up to sit again - no fear of the noise,cheers,JD.
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Rootes75
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We have 2 Swallow nests in our shed, nice to see them but the mess they make is awful.
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Rick
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| JohnDale wrote: | | Hi Rick, by the yellow beaks,they look like Blackbirds, not Robins. Robin has a short black beak. Plenty of both here but lots of birds not around. Have a Robin which sits on the back of the tractor when I'm cutting grass, hopping off to pick up whatever morsel I uncover & then catches up to sit again - no fear of the noise,cheers,JD. |
Could be. I see an adult Robin flying in and out of the garage all day, close to where this is, but perhaps she is flying to another nest!!!
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AntC
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| Rootes75 wrote: | | We have 2 Swallow nests in our shed, nice to see them but the mess they make is awful. |
I have the same problem. Currently 2/3rds of the way through a complete restoration of a 1958 S1 Land-Rover in an open fronted cart shed and now that the swallows have started nesting, by the time I have uncovered everything, it's time to put it all away again. The previous owner of the property used to break up the nests to prevent the swallows making such a mess and it's taken several years to entice them back again, so only myself to blame!
Strange that this should be my first post here - I've been lurking for a while - so I will introduce myself in due course.
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