In message , Brian Wakem
writes
Joe Egginton wrote:

Brian Wakem wrote:
Tony Powell wrote:

I too am a believer in that Nature will indeed tell us what is to
come? For one thing when a Snow Bunting arrived on a local hilltop
last year, it remained for a few days and within days the hills had a
crispy layer of snow, albeit it melted soon afterwards given a bit of
sunshine. Watch your garden carefully if you're into feeding the
birds because the Christmas/New Year period always brings a surprise
or two.


My garden is full of fat pigeons (I'm surprised they can fly). What
does that mean?


You've been feeding them too much, though at least they'll be easy pray
for cats !


Yeah they've certainly been eating a lot. I haven't fed them though, they
eat the nuts off our many huge beech trees. This year has been a very
nutty year and the pigeons come by the dozen and just eat for hours on end
each day. They are like footballs with tiny heads.

What we have not seen for some weeks is the foxes and deer in and around
the wood opposite. Coincides with leaf cover going, so not too
surprising. By contrast, the blue and great tits were having barging
matches round the peanuts in the bird-feeder at the beginning of the
week.

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Peter Thomas
SW Surrey