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 [...]