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  • 3 weeks later...

Nigello Wrote:

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> Possibly a crane fly, which - I think - emerge

> from the ground around about this time of year but

> only live a day or two.


Ah yes it could have been, but it didn't seem to have those long crane fly legs!

  • 1 month later...

Just seen a bird of prey in my very small garden after hearing wings flapping.


Not sure what it was, but it wasn't a Peregrine Falcon.


Buzzard?


It saw me through the window and flew off before I could get a photo.


Only the second time I've ever seen one in the garden. The last one got a starling, and I've never seen a starling in the garden since.


Hope the sparrows come back :(

My eagle-eyed partner spotted THREE goldfinches in a tree overlooking my garden yesterday!


Maybe the nigella seed I have been hopefully putting out for ages is finally attracting them ....


The sparrows haven't returned yet though - I can hear them twittering away in somebody else's garden :(

Keep going with the nigella seed Sue. We regularly get one goldfinch on every perch (6 in total) of our nigella feeder and over the summer had at least two families with young birds coming to feed. At one point there must have been 12 or more in the garden. I think they have become very common around here now.

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