This Blog covers nature sightings and related news in the Calderdale area.
It includes all groups - Plants, animals and fungi with links to specialist sites.
Anyone wishing to become a member of this Blog and post sightings please contact us.
If you would like to join the Halifax Scientific Society either email me or come along to the next meeting.
All welcome:
calderdalewildlifeblog@gmail.com
Please contact us about any sensitive records before posting on the blog

Saturday 5 February 2011

A change in the garden.

On Thursday I cut down a big, ugly Lawson's Cypress which I had been struggling to trim for years and thought it might reduce the number of birds calling in for the seeds, suet, Vitalin dog food I put out for them.

The opposite! New species consist of woodpigeon, jackdaw and bullfinch (a single female in with the chaffinches on the lawn pecking at the budgie seed I spread thinly there.) I have had a rainy day to watch, though - maybe they have visited before when I haven't been watching.

Some might not welcome the bigger species, but I find them fascinating to draw. I like my sketching far more than the rubbish photos I get.

Still no house sparrows, despite a thriving colony a few blocks away in the Green Park Estate.

No comments:

Post a Comment