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Onei
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Joined: Wed Jun 09, 2010 4:11 pm Posts: 4
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 Re: Starlings
Have seen plenty of starlings also quite a few sparrows which we haven't seen for in such numbers for years.
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| Sun Jun 13, 2010 11:45 am |
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peter
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Joined: Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:54 pm Posts: 3925 Location: Near Stansted airport
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 Re: Starlings
Had some at our fatball feeder this weekend, four balls gone in under a day!
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| Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:03 am |
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retropants
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Joined: Wed Feb 22, 2006 4:38 pm Posts: 568 Location: Middlesex
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 Re: Starlings
Hi JB, we've had a wren nesting in our allotment shed , just in the nook of the roof and the wall. A lovely nest made from old grass cuttings and whatnot! Also, my dad made a nesting tenament (a row of nest boxes from scrap wood) and we always get blue tits nesting in those!
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| Mon Jun 14, 2010 4:24 pm |
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glallotments
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Joined: Sat Dec 01, 2007 5:27 pm Posts: 2074 Location: West Yorkshire
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 Re: Starlings
We always get blue and great tits in our terrace box too even though it is supposed to be for sparrows.
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| Mon Jun 14, 2010 6:24 pm |
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Monika
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Joined: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:13 pm Posts: 2313 Location: Yorkshire Dales
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 Re: Starlings
We usually have a pair of blue tits in our sparrow terrace. They started nest building this year and were then evicted by wasps which now occupy the centre section. The two outer section act as sound boards so, when the wasps enter and leave the hole, it makes a wonderful whoooooom sound!
Another blue tit box in our garden has been taken over by a (buff-tailed?) bumble bee. It'll be fun looking at these insect nests when the season is over.
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| Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:12 pm |
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Geoff
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Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2005 6:33 pm Posts: 2748 Location: Forest of Bowland
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 Re: Starlings
Another of my nest boxes has a first for me, Pied Flycatcher. We haven't put the ladder to that one but after both parents being very busy at the end of last week I haven't seen them or any offspring today. Ladder tomorrow I think.
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| Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:41 pm |
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Monika
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Joined: Thu Jul 06, 2006 8:13 pm Posts: 2313 Location: Yorkshire Dales
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 Re: Starlings
Lucky you, Geoff. I love pied flycatchers. We occasionally get them passing through on spring migration here and I have seen them nesting at the river Wharfe at Bolton Abbey. Only one lucky year, we had a nest in the woods a few minutes from home.
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