Great to hear your tree sparrow success and amusing when you try and explain why this should spark excitement to people who just think of all little brown birds as 'just a sparrow'.
Hello John.
The tree sparrow pictures are wonderful. So great to see such fantastic wee birds as we don't get them where I live (near Glasgow). I didn't actually know until two and a bit years ago that there was two types of sparrow in Britain. They really are fantastic looking creatures.
Paul
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Here in N Yorkshire I am pleasantly surprised when a House Sparrow joins the Tree Sparrows on my feeding station. I was over the moon when I saw my first Tree Sparrow at Bempton but now I am quite blase about them
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hi john
i also have a few tree sparrows comming to my bird fedders in east yorks i think they must be more about
john witty voulntter at bempton cliffs
john witty hi john i also have a few tree sparrows comming to my bird fedders in east yorks i think they must be more about
Perhaps highlighting the concern over numbers has served to make us all pay more attention. Lets hope they are doing better now! Numbers here are the same and I still can't better three in one shot.
maybe when it gets colder!
John
For viewing or photography right place right time is everything. I'd rather be in the right place with poor kit than have the best kit and be in the wrong place.
More beautiful photos there, John. As you say, when it gets colder the activity will probably increase as I don't know about where you are but it really is quite mild most of the time here.
The necessity of bird-watching is a really good reason for avoiding all forms of housework.
The dust will still be there tomorrow - the birds may not be!
Love those pics - it looks like they are talking to each other! Maybe someone out there can suggest what they may be saying?....
Make the boy interested in natural history if you can; it is better than games [Robert Falcon Scott]
I never realised 'til I saw your photo that the chattering hoard at my (too numerous!) feeders included both tree and house sparrows, so I'm appreciating them all the more now. Where I used to live we could have produced a guide to garden birds daily, we got that many varieties but here, with a wood about 100 yards away, I only see a member of the tit family occasionally. This saddens me and the cats, who are the 'aren't birds nice to watch but yukky to eat' type, I'm pleased to say. It's only because I already knew that the formally common garden birds, like the sparrows and the starlings, are now in danger that I've taken to trying to encourage them more and more. You've just given me an extra reason to watch them a bit more closely, so thanks and I hope your sparrows are enjoying your garden as much as mine seem to like this one.
Hello John,
lovely to see someone so excited about a sparrow they are wonderful birds. My garden, when i moved in had no wildlife and i was just as excited when the first snail visited and ate my runner beans! the photos are amazing! good luck with your new garden friends
regards
Robin