I have a large feathered thief in my garden

[cherrybee]

This morning I went out to put the seed out for the birds.I looked up the garden to the tree where I had hung a peanut feeder and a fat ball which the starlings sparrows and blue tits etc can often be seen.I noticed the fatball I put there had gone that is the second one.I thought maybe they had fallen from the tree,so I went to check.Nothing there not even the net bag .So I put another up an hour ago and whilst sitting at the computer I looked out the back garden and low and behold there was my thief.A large black crow on the lawn had got the net of and was furiously pecking to try and break it apart.Grabbed my camera and went to kitchen door.The so and so must have heard something as he grabbed the ball and flew off,didn't even get my evidence .Now have to figure out how to put another up firmly enough to stop the thief

[Kev Lewis]

on a similar theme, I was watching a squirrel biting the top off a peanut bag on a tree this morning. He was very persistant and he eventually ran off with the remnants of the bag with about 50-60 nuts in it lol and I got the sequence I'll upload an image or twenty later lmao

[nightshade]

There is a jackdaw next door and he has just disappeared with half an apple bigger than a fist!
The grey squirrels actually unzipped the mesh of my peanut feeders and then buried the contents under the same tree

[Kev Lewis]

Originally Posted by Klewis

on a similar theme, I was watching a squirrel biting the top off a peanut bag on a tree this morning. He was very persistant and he eventually ran off with the remnants of the bag with about 50-60 nuts in it lol and I got the sequence I'll upload an image or twenty later lmao

Here you go

The nut thief

[Alan]

Originally Posted by Klewis

Here you go

The nut thief

I'm guessing Kev, that you were using the mentioned nuts to attract wildife for the camera. Have you found, like me, that these red mesh bags tend to attract birds more than the wire varieties. I'm talking of course when your on location and not at a feeding station or your back yard. I guess it's the colour!

[Kev Lewis]

This was a bag that someone had placed the previous day Alan but the colour certainly attracts alot of birds. I tend to use fat balls or nuts or peanut butter jammed into holes in the trees.

The biggest attraction for other birds seems to be other birds so if you can get the more common birds like the tits around you other birds seem to take their presence as a sign of safety. In two hours today I've photographed, GSW, nuthatch, blue tit, great tit, coal tit, nuthatch, greenfinch, chaffinch, brambling, squirrel, manadrins and missed a jay all without getting out of my car lol

[Alan]

Originally Posted by Klewis

This was a bag that someone had placed the previous day Alan but the colour certainly attracts alot of birds. I tend to use fat balls or nuts or peanut butter jammed into holes in the trees.

The biggest attraction for other birds seems to be other birds so if you can get the more common birds like the tits around you other birds seem to take their presence as a sign of safety. In two hours today I've photographed, GSW, nuthatch, blue tit, great tit, coal tit, nuthatch, greenfinch, chaffinch, brambling, squirrel, manadrins and missed a jay all without getting out of my car lol

Yeah, don't talk to me about missing Jay's - all without getting out the car as well lol

[Kev Lewis]

just wandered through your website Alan. Very artistic indeed, some lovely work there

[cherrybee]

Well I have been back out in the garden in between showers of HAILSTONES ! and I have put anther fatball up.I have wound string tightly around the top of the ball and wound it tightly around the branch and am sitting at the computer watching the window and waiting.Now lets see the b get it off

[Alan]

Originally Posted by Klewis

just wandered through your website Alan. Very artistic indeed, some lovely work there

Thanks Kev, it needs a big update though, I've neglected it for the last few months. As well as more paintings, I keep meaning to add a photography section.