I now have all the feeders filled. One nyjer seed, one no mess mixture, one sunflower seed, two fat bars, ground hopper with sunflower hearts and ground tray with mixed feed and fat.
Now getting blue and great tits, goldfinches and chaffinches, robins, dunnocks and blackbird on the ground. At least one coal tit is visiting regularly. Sparrows, greenfinches, siskins and wood pidgeons are visiting but rarely. I have yet to see any starlings in the garden, which means that there has been little consumption of the fat bars so far.
I am rather dissapointed with the "high energy - no mess" mix in the feeder, it is going down slowly and the tits seem to prefer the whole sunflowers in the small hanging feeder or the hearts in the ground hopper. I may need to reconsider what to feed here.
Around the area the red kites are in evidence again, during the last few days I saw one between Chesham and Great Missenden and another, perched on a solitary tree, between Ley Hill and Latimer.
After the rain we have had some hard frosts and fog for the past few days. The low ground water levels are still very obvious, no flow in the Chess under the Town Bridge and at both Thame and Wheatley on Tuesday the water meadows were still under grass rather than water.
Now getting blue and great tits, goldfinches and chaffinches, robins, dunnocks and blackbird on the ground. At least one coal tit is visiting regularly. Sparrows, greenfinches, siskins and wood pidgeons are visiting but rarely. I have yet to see any starlings in the garden, which means that there has been little consumption of the fat bars so far.
I am rather dissapointed with the "high energy - no mess" mix in the feeder, it is going down slowly and the tits seem to prefer the whole sunflowers in the small hanging feeder or the hearts in the ground hopper. I may need to reconsider what to feed here.
Around the area the red kites are in evidence again, during the last few days I saw one between Chesham and Great Missenden and another, perched on a solitary tree, between Ley Hill and Latimer.
After the rain we have had some hard frosts and fog for the past few days. The low ground water levels are still very obvious, no flow in the Chess under the Town Bridge and at both Thame and Wheatley on Tuesday the water meadows were still under grass rather than water.
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