Bird Feeders

Despite there still being plenty of food around and about we have installed the first of our bird feeders!

This year, as we changed trees, the bird table has been modified to take the peanut feeder...

It does not take the birds long to know where the free food is!! Niger seeds going down well with the Goldfinches...

The Collared Dove, which appears to have had a successful youngster, there are three of them, cleaning up the bird table of the seeds the small birds don't eat.

And the peanut feeder always  popular with the Tits.

Finally, as always, hoping around the base picking up any crumbs... One of our two Robins...

We do hope they appreciate it.

Sunflowers...

Yes, late November sunflowers!

Regular readers may remember my grandchildren in the sunflowers adjacent to our house back in August

Well, the sunflowers were still there until yesterday, looking a bit worse for wear.

The plus side is that they attracted birds by the hundreds. I attempted to get close up pictures but failed. Too many sunflowers to go at and they avoided the camera on a tripod like the plague! There are several in the 'cut' of the above photograph (below). Can you see them?

What you can see is how many actual seeds have been eaten; a lot!  As well as all the different small birds, we have even seen pigeons and crows pecking at them!

When disturbed, the sky was full.

The farmer, with combine, came yesterday and harvested them. I suspect his yield would be very limited. They will be sorely missed by the birds.... Better get the feeders out!