September 2023
23.09.23 : Garden birds at home in Parkside, Cleator Moor, Cumbria
24.09.23 : A wet and windy day in West Cumbria today, so I stayed at home and watched the wet birds in the garden from a nice dry garden room !
The feeders were busy with Blue Tits, Great Tits and Coal tits, along with House and Tree Sparrows, and of course the ever present Chaffinches. Our resident Nuthatch was also busy on the peanut feeders, taking one nut at a time then flying to a tree a long way away on the other side of the fields to eat. He then repeated all day ! getting slowly wetter and wetter as the photos show.
Then the Starlings turned up in a small mummuration of about 150 birds, they then set about emptying the fat balls but also stripping the berries of the Rowan tree. This morning the tree was covered in berries, by the end of the day they have pretty much all gone. Its the firt time in a long time we’ve seen the Starlings in any numbers, and I had forgotton just how loud they are, even when roosting on the power lines.
