CAROL'S BLOG: Plum(b) lines
Over the past year, the number of visits to our garden by a male and female Sparrow Hawk have increased to several times a day! Whilst the manner in which they ‘zoom’ into the garden is amazing and awe inspiring to see - they occasionally manage capture and fly off with small birds gripped in their lethal talons! This poses the question - should we continue to put out the bird feeders as we could be luring the birds that visit them to their doom? Upon reflection we have decided to continue. Mainly because we have observed that the birds on the feeders manage to detect the approaching predator and fly off at a surprisingly fast rate before the ‘Terminator’ strikes. Therefore, perhaps any hapless bird that is caught is frail in some way?
Current visitors to the feeders are Goldfinches - Great, Blue and Coal tits - Greater Spotted Woodpecker - Greenfinch - Chaffinch - Robin - Starlings and (of course) Magpies. Snow Drops, Crocuses and Hellebore are in bloom at the moment and there are some Daffodils that have been out since the beginning of January.
