As I type this I'm sat the garden watching the birds feeding on the bird seed and fatball . I can't belive the the pigeons are chasing the crows and jack doors of the food. I thort the like of the crows would bash the pigeons. Thay even chasing the magpies of even thow thau are doing the hard work of getting the seed out of the feeders and breaking the fatballs up. I thort the crows would have smashed the pigeons up when it come to food.

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No mate pigeons are flying rats with attitude . They don't like shiny things though. Friend of mine had loads in her garden, crapping everywhere. Hung a few old CDs up in the tree they eat in and now none come, but plenty of others do

I have seen buzzards recently being harrased by some large corvids,nothing new in this,but in this case there was no than 17 buzzards all on the higher thermals,never seen so many at once.

And on the lake three neon flashes,all flying as one,kingfishers,are my favourite bird..

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We have many large trees surrounding the house and a small wood behind it. Corvids are present un numbers, as are wood pigeons. Normally the black birds will attack and try to kill the grey ones, indeed we have regular evidence of such to clean up from our lawns. We have no problem with the woodies eating what drops below our feeders, and we adore watching the huge variety of garden birds that feed on our offerings. They are a joy to behold.

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Just you wait until they get wise and you are woken up by them blasting the cheeky girls and val doonican are full volume on their little pigeon ghetto blasters. ...

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like these?

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don't even joke about the bloody things Mal, they all need shooting

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Great photos ken

Got signal radio in my garden.....Well it's kind of the next door but one to share it with me anyway. Until I've just asked him turn it lower as I can't even hear my own voice when trying talk.

Were quite lucky to have a lot of birds in our garden with a 2 acre mature garden on the other side of it and farmland nearby. This year we've had nesting Blue Tits, Black Birds, Collared Dove, Wren, Robin and something at the mo making a right din on the estate wall at the back. We have a collony of hedge sparrows in some holly and a Sparrow Hawk that regularly takes birds as we don't move the feeders about that much!
Nearby there's a colony of Jackdaw and a nesting Buzzard, very lucky really

Edit, Goldfinch, such a pretty bird but I've never been able to look at them in the same light since Springwatch covered their nest over the programme, dirty little buggers