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Posted by gidarmy (U7627527) on Friday, 8th January 2010
Hello
What I really wanted to say was "Can anyone recommend the best way to feed garden birds in the Winter? Is a bird feeder witrh nuts a good idea?" And I still say that, all expert guidance will be treated with respect.
And on the back of that - stupid musical puns based around birds.
Grandad - Clive Dunnock
Tern Tern Tern - The birds.
I did have more but I've got to get the lunch ready
x
i stopped bothering with the feeders - front garden is one big dinner plate. lately i've added five minutes to getting out the door, takes me that long to scatter a mixture of seeds and nuts across the frozen snow. supporting a family of fourteen wood pigeons, several collared doves, a bucket of chaffinches, a canny not sharing with the rest of the clutch sparrow, a black bird, a brown bird and an irate robin.
as for puns - i'll be back, x
The Bitternest Pill
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Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Friday, 8th January 2010
Anything by REM featuring Michael Snipe.
The correct birdseed depends on what you're trying to feed. Some like nuts, others sunflower seeds, others a mix. Some prefer to feed from a dangly bag, or a pole feeder, or off the ground. Let the experts guide you! I'm just an idiot.
DJ Dunnock seems to play Fieldfare Music quite a lot.
sounds like Knerak has no fleet foxes (ALL Basingstoke area minibuses being subject to disruption) or boomtown rats. I can guarantee you that's what eats food I scatter on the ground.
And to avoid the squirrels (which will have what the foxes and rats ignore or can't get to), use a squirrel-proof bird feeder. To avoid moderation issues with a link, let me tell you to google for *nuttery bird feeder* (I expect other squirrel-proof bird feeders are available)...
At the moment, sunflower hearts are the most popular feed in my garden.
Put them out with a 6Music soundtrack (playing really quietly so as not to disturb the neighbours, or maybe with a photo of Lauren) and you'll see:
- Robin Hitchcock and the Egyptians
- a-ha (Morten Harket was known as something like Hakkespekt (woodpecker) at school, said Smash Hits)
- sp-Arrow, going "it ain't hot, hot, hot"
- Greengarthsidefinch and Tweetti Poleetti
- Lieutenant Pigeon (attract him with some old bread mixture that's gone off)
- Jay-Cee (is that how you spell it?) but Jay-C/DC if not...
- Parakeeth Harris and Orville
- Goldfrappfinch
- Blueoysterculttit
...
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I'm not sure it's appropriate to measure chaffinches by the bucket? Hmm.
Cormorant Christi Carol - Jeff Buckley
Capercaillie - Marillion
You're Mall'ard - Half Man Half Ibis-cuit
Non Je Ne Egret Rien - Edith Piaf
Next Plover - Jay-mes
Saturday Nightjar - The Bluethroat Nile
They love fat balls at this time of year, but apparently you should take them out of the string nets that they come in. Appropriate fat ball feeders are available at all good bird food stores.
I'm not sure it's appropriate to measure chaffinches by the bucket? Β
just wait till you get the bill!
I've noticed the chirrupy little water-loving black-and-white birds around (the Monochrome Set?) so am looking forward to the Pied Fairywagtail of New York.
tolhurst - been using the garden as a plate since snow fell the week before christmas and forgot to melt. birds are so hungry there’s nothing left for boomtown rat or fleet fox. never seen a fox in my garden. think i saw a rat once, but neither of us hung around long enough to prove it. if i ever see the grass again, i will revert to filling the feeders.
pete – apologies for my collective noun use of buckets.
got rocking robin stuck in my head, but no puns. yet, x
If you have any used fat that has solidified, you can mix it with seeds and nuts and make your own fatty balls and hang them from a tree. Don't forget that birdies can have difficulty finding fresh water during a freeze, so some warm water in a dish will help them (this could become a full-time job keeping them supplied with unfrozen water).
I'd like to know what to do with used cooking oil that doesn't solidify (I could try putting it in Amanda's diesel Yaris and hope the leasing company don't find out).
Something from "The Blackcap Larks" by Syd Parrot.
Who do I see in the garden now?
The Cranes and The Go Goose feat. Belinduck Arlisle?
And is that the Pet Shop Boys (giving away where these feathered friends have come from?) with "Wrent?"
Hi Gideon
Cyndi Lauper - "Gulls Just Wanna Have Fun"
Joe Jackson - "Different For Gulls"
Hi Again Gideon
Slices of apple supply energy and fluid - but they need to be put out every hour in this weather before they freeze!
Did I espy Run DMCgull and the Bee-Eaterstie Boys? Probably not...
"Peewit in the sky" by Norman Greenshank Jr
"Crake me to the Diver" by Owl Grebe
"Light my Firecrest" by Jose Feliciguano
Keen birdspotters, the Dead Kennedys did that song "2 Dunnock, 2 Duck".
The Loon Ranger - Quantum Jump
Pheasant Valley Sunday - The Monkees
Buoys and Gulls - Blur
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Posted by Cyril Benson in Penrith (U2611279) on Sunday, 10th January 2010
Stool Pigeon - Kid Creole & The Coconut Feeders (inevitably)
"Nuthatch City Pipits", by Shrike and Timneh Turnstone
"That'll be the Jay" by Budgie Hobby
"Tits in his kiss" by Linnet Lewis
Paul Macawtney & Wings avocet list which includes: Bluebird, No more lonely nightjars, With a little duck, Silly dove songs, Snipes of peace, Listen to what the manx shearwater said & Bantam on the run.
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Posted by candytalking (U14193738) on Sunday, 10th January 2010
"Wren, Will I see You Again" - The Three DeGrebes
"Some Guys Have All The Duck" or "Give Me A Finch" - Robert Palmer
"Sorted For Emus And Whizz" - Pulp
"Crake Balls Of Fire" - Jerry Lee Lewis
"Plover And Plover" - Hot Chick
"Love And Happy Nests" - Al Grebe
"Tits A Good Thing" - That Petrel Emotion
"Pipit Up" - Orange Juice
"Lovenest" - The Wedding Pheasant
Just wondering how many emus you have to accumulate before you can consider yourself sorted.
puffin, the magic dragon by peter, paul & mary
move over starling by doris day
i know, feeble, x
Just wondering how many emus you have to accumulate before you can consider yourself sorted.Β
isn't the emu called the curlewro nowadays?
Keeping it goosy;
How about anything by Holger WoodCzukay (OK that's more of a gopher) and CANadagoose?
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Posted by candytalking (U14193738) on Tuesday, 12th January 2010
"Can't Get Used To Goosing You" - The Beat
ai ai ai ai goosey - Modern Romance.
there's a goose in my house - R Dean Taylor
or there's the classic "There's a Goose; loose; about this hoose" by Lord Rockingham's XI. (could note a rooster in that name but won't) - the title of which is actually "Coots, Mon!"
Or Status Crow and "Down Down deeper and down" (unless we've had it)...
aboot!? or should I try to write in stereotyped no-offence-meant Scottish muir, hen?
"Smew stork mynah disaster" by The Bee Geese
"I will swallow him" by The Smewpremes
"Gulls squawk" by Dove Eggmunds
"Swallow you swallow me" by Genesiskin
"Dance with my feather" by Luther van albatross
"Love will tear us a parrot" by Jay Division
"Hurry up harrier" by Shag 69
billy don't be a heron - paper lace
itchy cuckoo park - small faces
take the siskinheads b(owl)ing - camper van beethoven
"Cormorantmusic" - Adamerican Robin and the Cormorants
"Mishelduck" - Beeteals
"For the wings of a dove" - Madnest
Two pipits of warbler and a packet of coal tits please - Sparrownessabounds
All the young cuckoos - Mott the Hoopoe
Get Capercaillie, Wear Capercaillie, Fly - Get Capercaillie, Wear Capercaillie, Fly
U Can't Touch Tits - MC Yellowhammer
"Heron" by The Velvet Scoter Undergrouse, featuring Lou Reedwarbler, John Quail, Starling Morrison and Mo Ducker
"The Trill is gone" by B Beak Kingfisher
The Official Bird Cup Theme - Colourbirdbox
torn between two plovers - mary macgregor
No Egrets - Midge Ureopean Swallow
albatross the universe - the beatles
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Posted by haroldseye (U14257712) on Wednesday, 13th January 2010
"Up where we be long-tailed tits" by Joe Cockatoo & Jennifer Warbler
"All the young dodos" and "Roll away the Stonechat" by Mott the Hoopoe
On air now: Larc Wryneck, to be followed at 9pm by Guillemot Crow.
auk - the smiths
another gull, another gannet - the only ones
anything by dunnock riley and the treecreepers
Norwegian Woodpecker - The Beeeaterles
Anything by I Am Coot or The Grouse of Love
Quail of the Century - Sleeper
Hatful of Swallow - The Smiths
Think the winner so far has to be 'Love will tear us a parrot', by Jay Division - 'nuff respec in a area etc.....
Eiders on the Stormy Petrel - the conDoors
"Fulmars rush in" by Rook Benton
"Capon loving you" by Oriole Speedwagtail
Just googled "capon" and really wish I hadn't.
bittern tweet symphony – the verve
bramblin’ round – wood warbler guthrie
hey, coot lookin’ – redshank williams
anything by the lovin’ spoonbill
Mistlethrush and wine - Cliff Pigeon
plumage - yo la tengoose
"Widgeon on a star" by Roseate Royce
"Flocking Eider" by Ian Dury & The Blackheaded Gulls
"Hello Starling" by Dipper Eyrie
Rubber Pullets - Hen CC (featuring Lol Grebe & Kevin Godwit)
Try a little tender nest - Otis Redwing
I put my thrush in you - Jay Division
Toucan play at that game - Booby Brown
Al Capon - Prince Bustard
I shot the shelduck - Bob Merlin & the Waders
Apologies to peteisnotlegend for nicking Mott the Hoopoe.
Move Over Starling - Dodoris Day
Tern-Free Adolescent - Ibex-Ray Spex
I liked Ibex-Ray Spex so much that a FAIL of woodchuck proportions has crept in , as an Ibex is a kind of deery animal you wouldn't cut up on a roundabout due to the size of its horns.
The sacred Egyptian bird is the All-Seeing *Ibis*...with "walk like a pantheron"...
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