European Gardening: BIRDS IN THE GARDEN, 0 by rannveig

rannveig wrote:
We had waxwings visit here two years ago - the first time I saw them I (again) couldn't believe my eyes and thought to myself ....... "We haven't moved to a warmer country - how can this be?" Learned later that they live quite far north in Scandinavia and come over here once in a while. The most stunningly beautiful birds ever seen here I sure!

Pat - I'm amazed that the birds are starting to look for nesting places already over there! Isn't that unusually early? I'm sure they won't start thinking of that here for another 4 months.

The fieldfares have made themselves very much at home here ...... so much so that they are chasing all the other birds away. I put food out in a second spot so the "regulars" could feed there since the first fieldfare had totally claimed the original spot as his, but then the second fieldfare was very quick to claim the second feeding station so I had to put out food on the third side of the house as well! lol They're really making me work those two! Especially since it's been snowing quite a bit so instead of having to sweep snow off one feeding place - I had three.

Here's a photo of one of them in the second feeding spot - it's very close to a window so I got a very close up shot of it :-)