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Anyone else missing ther blue/great/coal tits

  • 27-06-2012 6:49pm
    #1
    cubix
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    During the nesting season the garden was a wash with all species and chaffiches. I presume now the young ones are fledged they have headed for the fields.


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  • #2
    Kess73
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    Most of mine have vanished. Many will be recovering after the tough time the breeding season gives their bodies, plus a lot will be in the early stages of their moult.


    You may see a few second batches in the coming weeks though.


    But the colour that I have lost in recent weeks with my various tits vanishing has been replaced by an influx of Gold finches. I think it was early 2011 when I was bemoaning the fact I had no regular goldfinches save for two or three a couple of times a week. How things have changed this summer. I have had a regular little charm (of about 8 to 12) a number of times each day for the last couple of months, and this month has seen me have to go out and buy two new niger feeders which are also full each day.:D


  • #3
    cubix
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    Good to hear, have gone to the bother of painting my nijer feeder yellow in the hope they would mistake it for a big dandelion:p But nothing yet.


  • #4
    Half-cocked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    Adults are nowhere to be seen, just a few fledglings. No doubt they are off 2nd brooding.


  • #5
    Half-cocked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,319 ✭✭✭Half-cocked


    Kess73 wrote: »
    I have had a regular little charm (of about 8 to 12) a number of times each day for the last couple of months, and this month has seen me have to go out and buy two new niger feeders which are also full each day.:D

    I have the same - going through more nyger seed in a week than I used to in a month:)


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