A sparrowhawk paid a visit to the Springfield Road/O'Hanlon Avenue area of Brigg yesterday afternoon - only the second I've ever seen in this part of town, which isn't very far from open countryside.
Unrelated to Nige's sparrowhawk observation, butstill in the vein of ornithological interest...... There was a high degree of confusion in the Oxfam shop the other day....a bird feeder was on sale for 99p, but nobody knew how actually the birds would feed from it. It had a removable top and a fixed green base with a clear plastic tube between. Apart from two tiny holes at the bottom of the pastic tube, the tube was plain. There were suggestions that the feeder was for birds that were on a diet, or that clever birds could remove the lid before eating the foodstuff within. Another customer suggested that one possibly would have make some sort of peanut soup that would dribble thro' the very small pin-hole like apertures. Paul from the pet shop came up with the answer - the feeder is for minute nyjer seed - £2.60 a packet from the pet shop, which goldfinches and similar dickie-birds eat. The question's only easy when you know the answer.
Unrelated to Nige's sparrowhawk observation, butstill in the vein of ornithological interest......
ReplyDeleteThere was a high degree of confusion in the Oxfam shop the other day....a bird feeder was on sale for 99p, but nobody knew how actually the birds would feed from it.
It had a removable top and a fixed green base with a clear plastic tube between. Apart from two tiny holes at the bottom of the pastic tube, the tube was plain.
There were suggestions that the feeder was for birds that were on a diet, or that clever birds could remove the lid before eating the foodstuff within. Another customer suggested that one possibly would have make some sort of peanut soup that would dribble thro' the very small pin-hole like apertures.
Paul from the pet shop came up with the answer - the feeder is for minute nyjer seed - £2.60 a packet from the pet shop, which goldfinches and similar dickie-birds eat.
The question's only easy when you know the answer.