JackHarryBill

Finally a blog that I may maintain

Learnt feeding practices by birds?

When I was a boy in Kent my parents often used to buy a coconut, saw it in half and hang half of it upside down in the garden for the birds. From memory the Blue Tits in particular loved this and could be seen hanging upside down pecking away at the coconut until it [...]

Keeping the birds alive in Haworth

While clearing snow off the car  just as dawn was breaking this morning there was a rapid tick tick tick tick noise coming from a nearby tree. It was a Robin seemingly asking for breakfast. Small birds are particularly affected by cold weather. The Robin sat there as the snow fell adding to a carpet [...]

Sparrowhawk

Much excitement among the smaller birds on the feeder this afternoon as a  Sparrowhawk came to tea. Couldn’t be sure but I think it missed them all. This is the third sighting of a Sparrowhawk in our little garden recently. Twice they have been after birds on the feeder. Always too fast to get any [...]

The RSPB: Birds of prey

The RSPB: Birds of prey.
Help the RSPB stop the killing of Birds of Prey now.
Many years ago I worked on a farm. The farmers around also  did some some Pheasant shooting and employed a game keeper to raise the Pheasants.
He seemed to think that he had the right to kill anything that might just possibly [...]

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