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The river is moving pretty fast, not risen over the weekend thank goodness,we might be abit further that 50 yds 70/100 hubby says, even so its not very far!! 60 plus ducks this morning..:)

jude

Much more of this rain and Jude will need more than wellies - lots of sandbags and a rowing boat come to mind.

It must be lovely to see all the wildlife on and around the water but I think 50 yards from the river could be just a bit close for comfort. We are about a quarter of a mile from the river here so it's close enough to walk to in five minutes or so but far enough away not to be a flood worry.

Still no sign of birds apart from the odd pigeon or two :-(

Got your wellies ready Jude?

Hello SuffolkVera....

Strange, l wonder why they disappear like that?
We are also lucky in that (In some ways) we live aprox 50/70 yds from the river.

Looking at it right now its abit rough, no more rain please!!

Nice to see you again Jude :-)

You are lucky to have so much wildlife around. I envy you. We used to have a large garden, surrounded by farmland and with woodland the other side of the field behind us, so there was always a good variety of birds and other creatures in the garden. Then we moved to town to a house with a tiny garden. We put up feeders, a bird bath and a teeny, weeny pond and eventually attracted a few birds and frogs etc., but like Ann said this year they all seemed to leave at the end of the summer :-(

Yes I hope so too. Good to catch up though.

Aww such a shame more houses gone up, but spose we need them!!...We also have aprox 60 ducks every morning to feed, (sometimes more) Vic is in his element , he nearly treads on them though. We have the woods at the bottom of the garden so we get loads of birds from there, feeders are every where for them from our 4 houses in the corner..:)
Hope your birds come back..

jude x

Afternoon to you. I thought my eyes were deceiving me. You are lucky with all the birds and wildlife that you see. Our birds deserted us at the end of the summer when some of the big fields were all dug up and hedges grubbed out ready for a huge new estate to be built :-( :-( I am sure it is no coincidence that the birds disappeared as probably that is where they were used to roosting. Hopefully they will come back, we have sen signs of them returning.

Afternoon....we always have blue tits , coal tits or great tits, some times longtailed tits, 2 or 3 robins, 1 or 2 dunnocks, sparrows, an occasional black bird, wood pigeons, an occasional colored dove, 2 magpies. rooks, crows, squirrels and a fox . Hedgehog has been seen recently..

x :-D

We had a coal tit and a few great tits, lots of sparrows, a robin and a blackbird.

Things are looking up. This morning I have seen two blackbirds, a few sparrows and a robin :-)

What has happened to the birds? I put out some mealworms yesterday and they are still there. Usually either a robin or the starlings are on them as soon as I put them out.

I got excited too today. We’ve had a few sparrows and a blue tit on the feeders :-)

Ooh such excitement. We actually had a coal tit on the feeder this morning plus a few Great tits.

We have nowhere near as many as we had Vera. We do have some great and blue tits and a few collard doves oh and some sparrows but no blackbirds, robins, goldfinches yet. Hopefully they will return with the cold weather.

I have hardly seen a bird lately. I filled feeders just before we went away for a few days and they have only gone down a little bit. Presumably they are still finding enough to eat elsewhere but I haven’t even noticed them flying across the garden. We are a bird free zone :-(

The swallows have gone! One minute they were flying round and round our bungalow like little fighter planes, by evening, they'd gathered on the wires, the following day they'd gone! We just hope they'll be ok and return safely next summer! :-\ :-)

Our visitor goes after the pigeons too which I am grateful for as they are getting to be a noisy nuisance in this area.

I love looking at hawks and especially owls. However I find sparrow hawks so cruel doing what comes naturally to them that I find I am a bit ambivilent about them. I suppose it is because they take the garden birds we feed.

I have no qualms about being near them Vera. My son's partner worked at a bird of prey centre and I got the chance of handling all sorts. She has a pet Tawny Owl he is gorgeous. All the small birds fell silent earlier so I am guessing it was near by but I didn't see it.