European Gardening: BIRDS IN THE GARDEN, 1 by rannveig

rannveig wrote:
Pat - never thought of using Valerian for that! I hate the smell of it so I threw it all out!

With the snowcover the past two weeks the birds are starting to come to my place for lunch and dinner :-) Mostly Starlings and thrushes but yesterday two red buntings came to eat the corn I put out for the snowbuntings, which haven't shown up yet for some strange reason. I've only seen one flock fly over and then I hadn't bought any feed for them yet ..... haven't seen them since. Usually they turn up the first day everything is covered up in snow.

Here's a photo I got of the redpoll yesterday - a bit fuzzy since I took it through the window: