I was watering my garden when I saw a dead baby sparrow, as I continued to water, I saw another baby sparrow alive. I put on my garden gloves and picked it up. My husband got the ladder out and climed up the side of the house and put the baby back in [...]I have witnessed on two separate occasions this week a magpie kill a female blackbird. One was in my garden and another at the top of my road. It had grabbed the blackbird by the neck and shook it like a terrier dog would. It then flew into nearby trees and a pigeon [...]I hung my feeder inside 2 large hanging baskets held together with a wire to form a globe The pigeons become unstable and can’t feed but small birds can get through -0-0-0-0-0 People have such wonderful ways of helping our garden birds. Thank you Anne for sending this. If anyone uses this idea could you [...]Hi. it’s may 2012 now and we have not had a return of our swifts this year. We had about 8 nesting last year and around 30 flying every day. This year we have been eagerly waiting because surely summer can’t start without them but they havn’t arrived yet – and only about 4 pairs [...]
Sometimes everything just works really well when taking photos of birds. Here is a case in point. I looked out of the window from my office and saw this New Holland Honeyeater perched on one of the branches of a bush in the garden. I grabbed my camera and clicked; I was quite pleased with [...]
Sometimes it is the common species that give birders the most problems. With me it is getting good photos of the common garden bird, the Grey Fantail. This bird has been visiting our garden in recent weeks. It is a regular visitor during the cooler months. I haven’t been able to get a good close [...]
The introduced bird species, Common Starling, is very common in our district, including our garden. They are also very common throughout south-eastern Australia, sometimes forming flocks numbering in the thousands. They are a much maligned bird – and with good reason. We certainly don’t like the way they feast on the fruit in our orchard [...]From Tina I just saw 2 crows attack a blackbird. This was in a tree where the crows have a nest. One crow flew off with the blackbird sqawking. It has upset me and made me angry with the crows, i think its bad seeing a bird eat a bird -0-0-0-0-0 We don’t have any control over [...] My squirrels just bite through the twine and run off with the feeder! I find empty feeders all round the garden weeks after they first vanish! Kat -0-0-0-0-0-0 Are your bird feeders squirrel proof. I had to buy a hanging caged feeder and it really worked. Why not hang the feeders from a wire [...]I have just started feeding the birds and a blackbird has become very friendly towards me. He loves apples,but I have been leaving the skin on,so now Iv’e seen how difficult it is for them I will peel them in future. Thanks Click the link below to see the video http://birdtablenews.com/2009/06/robin-trying-to-peel-an-apple/ -0-0-0-0-0- Amazing. I have received [...]This is what Cathy saw: There are house martin’s nesting at our house and a black bird came along fighting with the Martin knocked 3 baby’s out of their nest, sad but true. -0-0-0-0-0 Hi Cathy, I never cease to be amazed at what birds do to other birds. I have a few blackbirds in [...]