#birdtables

[writerofweird]

Why Is There A Scarecrow Here?

Why is there a scarecrow here?This is a garden, not a field,And I want birds to come here,For many seeds this garden yields, So why is there a scarecrow here?Who put it in the back?Once I find that joker,I’ll give them a good whack, Why is there a scarecrow here?Well, it’s doing its job,No birds at my birdtable,No seeds being shoved in gobs, Why is there a scarecrow here?I’ll pluck it from the…

[danteriverflow]

Tree stump, sometimes an alter, sometimes a birdtable

[doglok]

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[ankiflygarenilsson]

Naturen och vi av Herman Flygare

Året är 1964 då pappa gick ingenjörsskola i Jönköping, han var den enda snickaren i gänget, de andra var i princip ingenjörer men han var bland de bästa i klassen.

Vid vårt fågelbord

Såsom vanligt hade vi vårt fågelbord bakom fönsterrutan. Det var intressant att studera de avsedda gästers beteende. Mest var det talgoxar och gråmesar, men någongång kom nötskrikan, den vackra och skygga men skräniga fågel. Mesarna var inte det minsta besvärade av att man iakttog dem, medan nötskrikan var liksom alla kråkfåglar mycket varsam. Märkte hon sig vara iakttagen så försvann hon omedelbart. Under vinterns lopp sällade sig ibland en domherre till sällskapet. Denne tycktes vara specialist på fläsk, ty det mesta av dagarna satt han på fläsksvålen och pickade trots att vi lagt ut en del växtfrön. Till och med hamp- och solrosfrön försmåddes för fläsket.  På våren kom det nya matgäster, mesarna, nötskrikan och domherren försvann och istället kom sädesärlan, gulsparven och bofinken samt någongång gästspel avsom vi antog vara bergfinken. Det var många kilo havregryn som dessa fåglar konsumerade under sommarens lopp eftersom de tydligen födde upp sina ungar med mat från fågelbordet. Sädersärlan som är en insektsätande fågel, ändrade också sina matvanor efter omständigheterna. Visserligen kom hon till boet någongång med mask eller insekt, troligen för att ungarna skulle veta hur köttmaten smakar, men eftersom det var bekvämast att plocka havregryn intill boet, så bestod födan huvudsakligen av rätterna därifrån.

Enligt våra iakttagelser är gulsparven den fredligaste av dessa tre arter och sädesärlan den aggressivaste, eftersom gulsparven gav vika för bofinken medan sädesärlan körde iväg dessa båda från det hon troligen ansåg vara sin egendom.

Sedan ungarna blivit fullvuxna försvann sommarfåglarna men en och annan gång besökte någon enstaka fågel bordet för att få lite påfyllnad i magen.

Så försvann sommarfåglarna för gott medan mesarna, nötskrikan och till och med domherren återkom.

Gemensamt för såväl sommar- som vintergästerna var, att om maten på bordet tröt någongång så såg dom liksom förvånade ut och det kunde hända att de kom och knackade med näbben på fönstret, som om de ville tala om att nu är maten slut, nu vill vi ha mera. Sädesärlan hade i åratal sitt rede i vårt hur, dels i ventilen eller under takpannorna. Då den en vår återkom, gick jag ut på gården varvid den flög och satte sig framför mina fötter och sneglade upp till mig, vippandes på stjärten och kvittrade sitt vackra kvitter, precis som den velat säga "Ser du, nu är jag här igen".

Skrivet av min far Herman Flygare året 1964 då han gick ingenjörsskola i Jönköping.

The nature and us

Behind our birdtable

Like usually we had our birdtable behind the window. It was interesting to study theese intending guests behaviours. Most it was great tits and greytits, but sometimes the jays arrives, the handsome and shy but noisy bird. The tits was not the least embarrassed of that we observed them, while the jay was, as all crows, very cautious. If she toticed tha she was observed she disappeared immediately. During wintertime a bullfinch came to the company of birds. This bird seems to be a specialist of pork because mostly of the days she sat on the pork and pick defy we had layed out some seed. Though we put out som hempssed or sunflowerseed she took the pork.  On springtime the new guests arrived, the tits, the jays a and the bullfinch disappeares and insteed other birds arrived like the wagtail, the yellow sparrow and the chaffinch and sometimes another sort of finchs. It was many kilos of rolled oats these birds was eating during the summer because the feed their youngest with food from the birdtable. The wagtail is a bird which eats insects did also changing its foodhabits during the circumstances. It is true that this bird sometimes arrived to the nest with worms or insects, probably because the youngest should know how the meetfodd tastes, but as it was more comfortable to pick the rolled oats beside the nest, so the diet contains the food from the birdtable. 

According to our observation the yellow sparrow was the gentliest of them she gave away for the chaffinch (the aggressiv one) but the wagtail pushes the other birds away because she thought that the birdtable was hers and only hers.

When the youngest has become adults the summerbirds disappeared but sometimes some of the birds came to the birdtable to pick some seed.

Then the summerbirds disappeared for good while the tits, jays and even the bullfinch came. Both the summer- and winterguests looked surprised when the food dried up so they could sometimes pick on the window for more food, as if they mentioned that now we want more. The wagtail had in years its nest in our house. 

When the wagtail one spring arrived I went out and the bird flyes and sat behind my feets and ogled on me, waggled up and down with its tail, twittered as if the bird wanted to tell me "I am here again". 

Written by my father Herman Flygare the year of 1964 when he was reeding to an engineer in Jönköping, a swedish town

[geetimesthree]

I keep getting this picture in my head of rick taking morty “on an adventure” but really it’s just a trip to the national aviary and he buys ALL of the merchandise and has the BEST time with the birds while morty just trails behind him with this face 😏

morty's seen the memories now. morty knows.

[treearchy]

Day Sixteen : Bird Table

[lizzielambwriter]

#birdtable #iow #jonathonlivingstonseagull #greedy #learntoshare https://www.instagram.com/p/CfBR5QALtp5V6FGfEu59jRs6k6h0eaYYUW_YzU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[pluffin]

I got Dark Souls Remastered on preorder but I haven’t had a chance to play it yet, so I’m venting with some feathery nobility in the meantime

[doglok]

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[ellobucket]

The sparrows in the garden aren't too sure what to make of the little old man at the end of their picnic table 🤣🤣🤣⁣ ⁣ #sparrow #bernie #berniememe #inmygarden #birdtable #winter #lovebirds #funtimes #ig #igers #ff #picoftheday #crapphotoshopping #birdwatching #birding #nature #lovenature #snow https://www.instagram.com/p/CKZlmlbDR7-/?igshid=1mjmofq1rrchy

[willwoodgatethings]

Merry Christmas! This year (for the few gifts I had to get) I mostly managed to avoid buying from big retail stores. For my parents, I made them this bird table. It has a real slate roof and can either hang from a tree or be fixed to a post. My own design. Before it got too dark (and before #stormbella tomorrow), we got it mounted on its post. Immensly satisfying, even though wrapping it was certainly a little challenging! #christmas #homemade #birdtable #garden #diy #diyhero #birdwatching (at Plymouth) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJOl25kLM_Q/?igshid=vi4wpulbgciz

[scrappapertiger]

#birdtable #birds #naturalhistory (at Edinburgh, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJLziBMj0zQ/?igshid=1osdei2n3f84g

[idlewoodworkers]

Two more bird tables made today. . . Getting to that time of year when food is harder to find for birds. Why not help them out with a hand made bird table. . . Send us a message if your interested in your own bird table. . . #palletwoodprojects #reclaimedwood #ukmakers #ukwoodworking #palletlife #birdtable #helpthebirds #birdfeeders #handmade https://www.instagram.com/p/CGflO4ZDbT2/?igshid=p4ln9b8bnna6

[its-only-art-dale]

See how they run 🐁🐭 Three little mice on our bird table 🐭🐁😁 #ice #mouse #cute #threeblindmice #notreallyblind #rodent #gorleston #norfolk #canon #fun #birdtable #hedge (at Gorleston-On-Sea, Norfolk, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cau9mZfjmg-/?utm_medium=tumblr

[alimcnamara]

This week I typed every authors’ favourite words “The End” on the first draft of my 12th novel! 🎉

As always still lots of work to do, but for now it’s two weeks off for a staycation with my family! 🙌🏻

The book will published in Summer 2021 but for now here’s a few clues (in the form of images) to what

‘The Tiny Treasures of Bluebell Wood’ (Already available to pre-order on Amazon!) might be about...

[christines93]

What a productive Bank Holiday Monday! @professorcompressor found a tin of @ronseal.uk garden paint in Bluebell in the shed so I took to the bird table with a brush! I think it makes it look brand new and gives the garden a splash of colour! #ronseal #doeswhatitsaysonthetin #birdtable #birds #blue #garden https://www.instagram.com/p/B-7yRKsjli4/?igshid=160rrb4u3y73w