Goldfinches
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Essex stalker
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yes we have some most days. I planted some conservation hedging around the garden about 10 years ago, probably about 150 metres of it, the garden is now full of birds but I do also make a big effort to remove the magpies etc and theer are no cats in the vaccinity
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No magpies, guaranteed 
about to put out an abundance of niger seeds, also some small seed mixed food
hopefully something may take it up
Every year from January onwards I have two larsen traps running which clears any magpies, down to one trap now just in Casey
greenfinches in abundance, as are the odd chaffinch, linnets, wrens etc etc Still no goldies
my eyes are peeled
about to put out an abundance of niger seeds, also some small seed mixed food
hopefully something may take it up
Every year from January onwards I have two larsen traps running which clears any magpies, down to one trap now just in Casey
greenfinches in abundance, as are the odd chaffinch, linnets, wrens etc etc Still no goldies
my eyes are peeled
There's goldfinches here in reasonable numbers, chaffinches are making a comeback after years of "bumblefoot" which decimated them. Greenfinches are the big winners, loads of them about. Best of all the Cirl buntings are on the increase, see them most days. I lost a fair bit of shooting land to the RSPB when they bought it up for silly money for the cirl bunting project. That seems to have been a success so perhaps it wasn't all bad!
jason shave
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Just got back from Loch AWE loads There.
There was a family that fledged early on, and see several of them on the phone wires here about, but not in the garden.
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Jimnydriver
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Had 20 Goldies this morning ,sitting on whirley waiting to get on to the niger seed and sunflower hearts..... here most mornings. we even had 2 woodpeckers on the peanuts , mother and juv. Watching the feeders in back garden better than watching tele.
nun_hunter
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Funny I saw this thread as pretty sure I've never seen any yet saw 4 on the gravel drive at a friends farm in Chiddingly on Friday last week.
S&L7x57
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Two pairs nesting in our garden, they like the few specialist conifers that a previous owner planted. The high winds a couple of months back blew one nest down but they just rebuilt.
They love the thistles in the rough grazing/water meadows below our house, in the autumn we can see flocks of 20 plus.
They love the thistles in the rough grazing/water meadows below our house, in the autumn we can see flocks of 20 plus.
Very many here is s wales. A whitethroat flew into our consevatory yesterday and survived - today it was a juvenile wren it also survived. We have many song thrushes and missle thrushes. There is a nesting pair of buzzards at the bottom of the field and greylag on the pond. S Wales is rather like England maybe 40 years ago for finches.
Wingy
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Again seen plenty of blue tits here, nested again in the box on the back of the house, also in next doors nest box. I'm going to put up another for next year. They loved the suet & meal worm paties for rearing their brood
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I've had to remove last winter, 5 lovely conifers from my garden as they all died last year, any idea on the conifer species you've got, perhaps I can replace them to help provide a nesting place I've got stacks of bushes, trees, ivy and wild areas with meadow grass/flowers etc nest boxes secreted all over, I get all species breeding and turning up apart from goldies and song thrushes
