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07-04-2006, 12:20 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: exmouth devon uk
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| |  I have a large feathered thief in my garden
 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
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07-04-2006, 12:27 PM
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| | | Re: I have a large feathered thief in my garden
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 |
07-04-2006, 12:37 PM
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| | | Re: I have a large feathered thief in my garden
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
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07-04-2006, 01:01 PM
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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 |
07-04-2006, 01:11 PM
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| | | Re: I have a large feathered thief in my garden
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Originally Posted by Klewis | 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! |
07-04-2006, 01:16 PM
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| | | Re: I have a large feathered thief in my garden
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 |
07-04-2006, 01:34 PM
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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 |
07-04-2006, 01:53 PM
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just wandered through your website Alan. Very artistic indeed, some lovely work there |
07-04-2006, 02:00 PM
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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
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07-04-2006, 02:04 PM
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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. |
07-04-2006, 02:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Klewis just wandered through your website Alan. Very artistic indeed, some lovely work there | I also have looked, your paintings are fantastic
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07-04-2006, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by 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 | It might be easier cherrybee to put the fat/scraps in a wire mess feeder - I think you can get specially made ones for the purpose now, also the birds are less likely to get their claws caught than in the nylon net type.
Also thanks for the comment about my website. |
07-04-2006, 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Alan It might be easier cherrybee to put the fat/scraps in a wire mess feeder - I think you can get specially made ones for the purpose now, also the birds are less likely to get their claws caught than in the nylon net type.
Also thanks for the comment about my website. | Thank you Alan. I have already thought about that.Wont be going out today though to get one,earlier it was hailstones now it is persisting it down.I refuse to go anywhere on my moped today,dont fancy geting wet or having hail bouncing of my helmet
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07-04-2006, 02:24 PM
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Has anyone tried making their own fat cakes? It's a bit smelly and messy, but the birds love it! I used suet with bird seed mixed into it. I would think best for the winter months though so the chicks don't choke. |
07-04-2006, 02:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Klewis just wandered through your website Alan. Very artistic indeed, some lovely work there | By the way Kev, your website is pretty impressive. You must now have a huge collection of 'quality images' |
07-04-2006, 02:31 PM
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well over 1500 images Alan, not sure how many 'quality' ones though |
07-04-2006, 03:00 PM
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| | | Re: I have a large feathered thief in my garden
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Originally Posted by Klewis 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. | I have long suspected this to be the case without having any real proof. I'm glad you've noticed it too. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Klewis 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 | That's some carpark!
You do have some fantastic images on your website Kevin. Do you sell them to photo libraries etc?
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07-04-2006, 04:06 PM
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| | | Re: I have a large feathered thief in my garden
I dont actively sell the images Matt. If any of the wildlife charities want to use them then I give them full access to the files for nothing. RSPB-images have me on their photographers database as well as a number of the wildlife trusts. Occasionally I will get a magazine asking for files but they can pay for them . I tend to treat my website like my image scrapbook
ps it is a huge carpark called the Forest of Dean lol |
07-04-2006, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by 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 | I would't bet on it They are very cleaver, he will have it off in not time |
07-04-2006, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Kayleigh I would't bet on it They are very cleaver, he will have it off in not time | Well while I was getting hubbys dinner just now the thief came back to the scene of the crime,only he didnt notice the new one but went straight back to the patch of grass he originally tried to peck it to pieces.He came back for the bits he left when he took off with nearly a whole one in hiis mouth
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07-04-2006, 04:55 PM
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I have made fat blocks but mix in mealworms,these are very good for the nestlings
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07-04-2006, 06:28 PM
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| | | Re: I have a large feathered thief in my garden
I have a feathered thief in my garden, but in my case its a Magpie. Ive lost count of the number of bulbs its tried to pull up, and not content with the bulbs, it keeps trying to raid a local Blackbirds nest paul | | |
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