LINNET bird feeder

nilhg

Been a while since I posted in this forum but I thought some folk here might be interested in these photos.

I'm a tillage farmer, in REPS and one of the elements of my plan is 2.5HA of LINNET, there are various options for LINNET crops but the one I use is a mixture of Oats and Linseed.

I hadn't been down to the crop for a while so this morning took a walk down there with my camera, I was amazed by the amount of birds feeding there, from the various small species to literally thousands of pigeons and crows along with an opportunist sparrowhawk and a couple of buzzards.



LINNET-2 by cilldara, on Flickr


LINNET-4 by cilldara, on Flickr


LINNET-5 by cilldara, on Flickr


LINNET-3 by cilldara, on Flickr

There's a few more shots on Flickr, click through on one of the photos above.

Desmo

wow; well done!
Des

V_Moth

That's fantastic - probably a few Yellowhammers and Brambling amongst the finches too.

V Bull

Great photos and like the other guys said, well done...

I think linseed are a particular favourite of the Brambling..

nilhg

V_Moth wrote: »

That's fantastic - probably a few Yellowhammers and Brambling amongst the finches too.

Yellowhammers are common enough round here, I would imagine there's some Brambling in among the Chaffinches, they're wary enough and hard to get close to.

Half-cocked

We've been planting game crops for pheasants for the last few years and we get huge flocks of finches feeding in them - Chaffinches, Yellowhammers, Goldfinches, Linnets, Bramblings etc. Its amazing how many birds can get a whole winters feeding out of a half acre of game crop.