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Getting Busy

Finally I am seeing some activity in the garden. At the weekend birds appeared in the morning but mostly vanished after lunch. Blue tits are active taking sunflower hearts and the goldfinches are back on the nyjer seed. I think I had a siskin on the nyjer seed as well but she (I think) was partially hidden by the feeder and I couldn't get a clear view.

Greenfinches and chaffinces are around and one or two sparrows but no starlings yet. A blackbird has come back to the garden to join the robin and dunnock in the undergrowth.

I am feeding sunflower heards and nyjer in the feeders and have just started putting out whole sundflower seeds. The ground feeder has a fat block, oatmeal and a specialist blackbird mix. I will have to order some fat bars for the feeders soon which should bring the starlings back in force if last year was anything to go by.

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