The Bird Thread

Funny, I showed that video to my daughter the other day because I'd mentioned there's often a sparrow hawk lurking about behind our house. It was perched on the roof opposite my office window a couple of times last week. Often see it floating about being mobbed by crows and gulls.

In unrelated news I've attempting to bring back some garden birds by hanging a seed feeder in the one place I think it'll be safe from the gangs of neighbourhood cats. Its's on a bracket i've attached to the side of a flat-roofed extension just below my office window. Hopefully no catty fucker will be able to sneak up on it there. No birds have found it yet. As I don't want the seed to go off, I thought it would be a good idea to empty it after a week or so chuck the seed up the flat roof just above the feeder. I figured if the local population see pigeons, jackdaws starlings and magpies feeding there, some garden birds might come to investigate and find the feeder. That was the thought process anyway.

This morning I was on a call watching a couple wood pigeons (called BFPs in this house) and collared doves eating the seed while jackdaws, starlings and a few other characters lurked nearby. Suddenly everything exploded into flight and scattered as the sparrowhawk came belting across the fence tops, just missed a pigeon and disappeared through a tree at the end of a neighbour's garden.

I've created a trap!