What have you seen
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{ Not Joking Here !! }
For some reason the birds seem to have taken
exception to the seeds, fat balls & slabs I'm putting
out at the moment. I Had to remove the fat
balls from their feeder, crush them into seed-sized
pieces & put them on the ground feeding trays,
even then it's taken a few days for the Town Pigeon
Flock to clear them away.
So I think it's going to be 'Starvation Rations' For
a week, to remind 'em of what they are supposed
to be doing !!
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That seems to be the case too here, near Hereford. I put out a fat ball, a feeder 3/4 full of seeds and a prepared 1/2 coconut shell and a seed try on the ground when we arrived on site 2 days ago. Within 30 mins there was a Great Tit investigating the feeder, and since then all we've seen are a couple of Great Tits & a Robin, and very little of the seeds have been eaten. Wonder where they've all gone, as we are close to the edge of a wood?
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This wag came to join me for a beer.🍺 Will try to identify it later! 😀Still no sign of that blue chaffich!😕
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A beautiful sunny but cold day today which seems to have bought a few birds into the garden and the feeders, starlings, blackbirds enjoying the apples and suet block, goldfinches enjoying the nyjer and sunflower hearts, robin also enjoying the sunflower hearts and suet block, dunnocks (3), checking out the ground at the bottom of the feeding station, wren scurrying around the flower pots and containers, in an out of the shrubs and around the pond, collared doves feeding from the wild bird seed and around the garden also the wood pigeons, crow checking out "Christmas scraps", blue tits eating a sunflower heart or two then checking out two of our nest boxes spending a little time in one and the surprise of the day - 3 pied wagtails checking around the garden looking for goodies. The wagtails being a "rare" and welcome visitor to our garden.
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I hadn't realised that when you enlarged the photo that it still didn't show you the whole thing. I agree with you OneP, both about the software and about Rocky's photo. As this is supposed to be one the main enhancements of the new website it doesn't seem one of Santas best prezzies.
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Quite an interesting day, although nothing startling. Last night as we were on our last walk I heard at least 3 Tawny Owls calling to each other in the woods behind the van. Then what sounded like a fox barking as we went to bed. This morning the first sound was of a Woodpecker hammering away. On our walks we saw, as well as the usual Blackbirds & Blueys, Robins and Wrens, we spotted 3 GSW chasing each other, hundreds of Fieldfares and Redwings feeding on the apple trees in an orchard watched over by a imperious Buzzard, and on the way back to the van a couple of Bullfinches and a Treecreeper.
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Moved today to near Upton. Put out the feeders etc once we'd set up and have had more birds around already than we did during the 6 nights we were at our last site. A first for me was a Robin hanging onto both a fat ball and a half coconut. Not quite as agile as Blue and Great Tits but was certainly enjoying the feed.
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Dave
How did you get a picture this size?
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First off I only know it works with my setup, that's Windows, Firefox and mouse on my desktop. Others may have different, but I can't comment on that.
The steps look a lot but in practice its only a few seconds to do. It's a workaround that people should not have to do as other sites allow proper uploading, but we have to live with what's offered.
- I resize a photo to 500 pixels in width
- I have a free throwaway 'Weebly' website where I store all photos where a forum needs an Internet host, like this one.
- I upload my resized photo to my 'Weebly' website and publish it, it is now published, hosted and available to the world.
- I now have two tabs open, the CT forum and my website with the photo.
- I press reply in CT and add my text
- I then click on my photo in the Weebly tab, keep the left mouse button down and drag the photo to the CT tab.
- The CT forum tab opens and I carry on and drag the photo into the CT reply box, where it appears with my text.
- I then press reply.
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Thanks for the reply Dave. This seems to be similar to how Oneput advised Photobucket would work only using copy/paste rather than drag and drop.
However Photobucket has been changed it seems and no longer works how it used to.
I guess I will stick to the new upload method.
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I was up on Exmoor today, in beautiful wintery sunshine with empty moors all around. I noticed quite a few of the sheep had their horns painted in orange fluorescent paint, an anti car device no-doubt in these dark winter days when quite a few animals get run over.
I also spotted some Exmoor ponies with their lovely thick winter coats so I stopped to take a quick photo of one handsome little pony eating some of the sparse moorland food.
The journey was from Dulverton, over the tops, down to Simonsbath, down through Watersmeet where the old lodge is being repaired just now. Then up Countisbury Hill and on towards Porlock, taking in the view of Porlock and Selworthy Beacon.
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Looks like the same one Dave! No-one around at this time of the year and I was hoping to spot some deer that apparently venture towards Culbone
Today, I took a photo of our daily garden visitor., whose diet of apples I should probably follow!
Fieldfare photo coming up.
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Walked around our lovely little Country Park and reservoir this morning, heard a "plop" and yes, a lovely little water vole! Haven't seen one in ages, so very pleased.
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I saw the two buzzards again today they must have taken up residence in our local area.
They started to get mobbed by four crows which looks odd them being much larger.
I have seen this before but usually when they stray near to crows nests in season. I suppose the crows see them as rivals to their food source which is road kill on the country lanes.
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I was supposed to have headed for Countisbury this morning to visit stepson and wife for a couple of days but, having given the OH my manflu as a new year present, we have postponed.
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I was supposed to have headed for Countisbury this morning to visit stepson and wife for a couple of days but, having given the OH my manflu as a new year present, we have postponed.
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