The Birds In The Garden And Everywhere Else Thread

[Muteswan]

https://twitter.com/happypixr/status/1330235784255848448?s=21

I don’t do Twitter, but going from the link to his account I’m amazed at some of the awesome photos he’s taken. Thank you for the heads up.

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/happypixr/status/1330235784255848448?s=21

I don’t do Twitter, but going from the link to his account I’m amazed at some of the awesome photos he’s taken. Thank you for the heads up.

He’s superb.

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/jocaphotography/status/1334987871183396865?s=21

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/happypixr/status/1338151697017868288?s=21

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/happypixr/status/1338529181660012548?s=21

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/npaulroberts/status/1338156428335452160?s=21


https://twitter.com/npaulroberts/status/1338153598945996800?s=12

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/wgtollef/status/1341571330400018433?s=21

 

[Darran]

https://twitter.com/happypixr/status/1342881610845327361?s=21

 

[Longlostjack]

Just something that hasn’t made the news. At the start of the Covid pandemic in March, blue tits here in Germany were struck down by a bacteria called Suttonella ornithocola. Bacteria attacked the lungs and blue tits were particularly affected. It‘s now December and we still haven’t seen any since.

 

[Lifelong]

Just something that hasn’t made the news. At the start of the Covid pandemic in March, blue tits here in Germany were struck down by a bacteria called Suttonella ornithocola. Bacteria attacked the lungs and blue tits were particularly affected. It‘s now December and we still haven’t seen any since.

That’s bad news.

There’s quite a few of them on my feeders here in Loughor.

 

[K23]

Just something that hasn’t made the news. At the start of the Covid pandemic in March, blue tits here in Germany were struck down by a bacteria called Suttonella ornithocola. Bacteria attacked the lungs and blue tits were particularly affected. It‘s now December and we still haven’t seen any since.

That is a real shame. I hope it doesn't cross the Channel. Blue & Great tits probably make up around 50% of our feeder visitors plus a very welcome gang of about 7-8 long-tailed tits each morning atm.

 

[Longlostjack]

From what I gather the number of cases peaked in April and May and have declined since then. Numbers of blue tits obviously haven't recovered though - hopefully they will next Spring.

 

[Darran]

From what I gather the number of cases peaked in April and May and have declined since then. Numbers of blue tits obviously haven't recovered though - hopefully they will next Spring.

The amount of birds we get in the garden where I live is amazing but I haven’t seen a greenfinch here for several years because of Trichomonosis.

 

[Darran]

I’ve just had words with my wife.
I’ve told her she’s putting too much food out for the birds and the squirrels are cleaning up.

 

[K23]

From what I gather the number of cases peaked in April and May and have declined since then. Numbers of blue tits obviously haven't recovered though - hopefully they will next Spring.

The amount of birds we get in the garden where I live is amazing but I haven’t seen a greenfinch here for several years because of Trichomonosis.

When we moved to Somerset in 2004, Greenfinches were regulars on our feeders for the first 3 maybe 4 years, sometimes 2 or 3 at a time, then they just stopped and it was just the occasional one every few years. Until the last 2 years when they've become more frequent, not back to their early numbers but definitely on the increase. And here's one of them.