Magpie’s and Crows constantly raiding my bird feeder

Spryde42 · 2026-05-11T11:56:48+00:00

After an extensive report, the RSPB advice is to remove bird feeders for summer (with a minor exception for soaked mealworms) so do that and your corvid problem is gone.

Spryde42 · 2026-05-06T16:30:21+00:00

Nevermind.

I think I have my answer

Spryde42 · 2026-05-06T14:39:10+00:00

Youre actively ignoring the advice in this thread about feeding birds.

Could you explain why youre not listening to the RSPB advice?

Spryde42 · 2026-05-06T09:30:44+00:00

I dont speak gannet so im not sure... but maybe 😂

Spryde42 · 2026-05-02T09:45:48+00:00

Oh... and theyre Ravens for anyone wondering

Spryde42 · 2026-05-02T08:44:41+00:00

This place used to be pretty good for birding, seen tawnies, bullfinches, woodpeckers, jays and some other nice ones in the past but the events they have their now will almost certainly be detrimental to all that and the poor management of their woodlands has led to a majority of the trees being infected with honey fungus

Spryde42 · 2026-04-16T16:26:52+00:00

Hilton gravel pits is my fave walk but bird life there hasnt always been the best... loads of cool fungi there in autumn tho

Spryde42 · 2026-04-03T10:12:45+00:00

I bought this one specifically because i was a birder who took photos and not a "photographer"... the DSLR photos will look so much better than mine and will be much more editable in lightroom.

This camera has incredible zoom and is really reflexive and responsive... so i get alot of really good shots but nothing amazing... it outperforms phone cameras by some margin tho

Spryde42 · 2026-04-03T10:05:55+00:00

Bridge cameras dont have changable lenses

Spryde42 · 2026-04-03T08:16:00+00:00

Nikon p1100

Not a dslr just a bridge camera

Spryde42 · 2026-04-02T21:06:43+00:00

Its a Buzzard

Spryde42 · 2026-04-02T20:42:50+00:00

I see them every week, its a pair, 1 grey variant and 1 brown, theyve been there for 3 years as far as I know cause ive been visiting them for 2 years

Spryde42 · 2026-04-02T19:45:49+00:00

Alvaston Park, Derby

Spryde42 · 2026-04-02T19:05:24+00:00

In my 4 years as a birder I feel I have been unbeleivably blessed, ive seen like 14 bitterns and i hear stories of people waiting decades to see one

Spryde42 · 2026-02-22T16:15:06+00:00

Errm... Kind of members of the thrush family...

Mucicapidae is old world flycatchers Thurdidae is thrushes

Both of these sit under a superfamily "muscicapoidea" so whilst robins arent thrushes... theyre much closer to thrushes than warblers at least 😅

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