European Gardening: Birds in the garden Part 2., 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Hi Pat, haven't seen you around for a while! I tend to agree with you, although Doves are nice birds too it would have saved a lot more small birds. I seem to have some years where I see more Goldfinches, then they disappear. Did you get any pics??

I'm tempted to put up a feeder, I got some wild bird seed recently and a net with peanuts and fat balls from Lidls but haven't got around to putting them anywhere. I have only a few doves, and wood pigeons, don't really want to encourage more. They are probably breeding more because of the good food supply, I have a wood pigeon nesting now in the oak at the front, seems a bit late but food is probably plentiful.

I had a baby wood pigeon drop past my window on the last day of September onto the window ledge, it must have been in a nest in the creeper on the wall. It flew away after a little rest.