eggyg
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 3c
The jackdaws in our garden are eating me out of house and home. Especially the fat balls, the little birds don’t stand a chance. I got a huge shock the other day though. A sparrow was feeding its youngest right outside my back door when a jackdaw with two young with it grabbed the sparrow chick and promptly killed and started tearing it apart and feeding it to its chicks. The jackdaws share the feeders with all the other birds regardless of their size so this was a total surprise. I Googled it and it can happen on occasion especially when raising chicks. They need the extra protein apparently. I felt guilty because I hadn’t filled the fat balls or peanuts up that day. Horrifying. Yet when a sparrowhawk does it I don’t bat an eyelid!Good morning.5.8
Ex-path finished and seeded. Trailer of rubbish delivered to tip. Should have slept like log but sadly awake by 01.30. Read "Whose body" on the principle that an old, well known, book should drop me back to sleep, a ploy which failed. So face what looks like another grey day completely cream-crackered. Have avoided the "big shop" for days and am now reduced to cheese, crackers or children's emergency fish fingers...I haven't even enough flour to make pizza or any pasta (which is fortunate since I am trying to get daily score down)...so I have written my list and prepared myself for a run to Carmarthen. Judging by the dearth in pantry and freezer it will over heat and bend my plastic a bit.
@eggyg Loved the bird pictures. My little lot are facing strong competition from corvids - masses of wretched magpies and even jays accompanied by their funereally clad friends. Waving, whether through window or outside, disperses them to allow the tits, sparrows, finches etc a short go at the fat balls and seed. 50 balls and a bag of seed (£26) doesn't last long once the big guys start on the balls, greedy brutes. I assume the fat must be animal derived as I thought corvids were mostly carnivorous.
Time to feed Mr Wolf - wishing everyone a good day.
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