Wildlife in your Garden



….this time last year, I posted about Seagulls nesting on a couple of houses in Valescourt Rd, West Derby. Well, they’re back again. Must be noisy for the house owners but amazing how nature is, I never knew Seagulls were so suburban and returned to the same spot each year.
 

….this time last year, I posted about Seagulls nesting on a couple of houses in Valescourt Rd, West Derby. Well, they’re back again. Must be noisy for the house owners but amazing how nature is, I never knew Seagulls were so suburban and returned to the same spot each year.
Every year the seagulls nested on the roof of the old Post Office on Sir Thomas Street. One year, when it was being renovated, the builders must have put some tar on the roof, one of the young seagulls, not long out of the nest, got stuck in it. One brave soul went out to release it, which he did, but not without being repeatedly divebombed and "soiled" by its anxious parents. Just no gratitude in nature, obviously.
 
After having moved from our new build where we only got goldfinches occasionally.

Our new, old house gets a lot more.

Current list of birds seen in our garden:
Pigeons, magpies, crows, blackbirds, song thrush, great tit, blue tit, coal tit, long tailed tit, possibly but unconfirmed marsh tit, chaffinch, bullfinch, dunncock, wren, nuthatch.

We have also got 2 regular squirrels and have regularly heard a tawny owl but not yet seen it. (Hopefully now lighter nights we will).

Interestingly, the birds have little interest in most of the feeders which are stocked with a variety of feed. They all seem to go for the sunflower seeds. Even the squirrels ignore the peanuts for the sunflowers.
 


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