tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post4721838181811934074..comments2024-03-28T20:29:39.377+00:00Comments on Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park birds: Ralph Hancockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-22088936295983595602014-12-30T07:08:25.962+00:002014-12-30T07:08:25.962+00:00I must live in hope. We usually do well for green...I must live in hope. We usually do well for greenfinches and (my favourites) goldfinches...so one must count one's birding blessings. :)Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683657915069578017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-40562357763215592852014-12-29T23:45:56.406+00:002014-12-29T23:45:56.406+00:00Interesting, and I'm sure you're right. Bu...Interesting, and I'm sure you're right. But don't worry about it getting out. We've had this situation before. As long as there is a duckboard in the pond, a swan will stroll out whenever it likes, and somehow get back to the main lake.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-67141968131783032192014-12-29T23:43:35.526+00:002014-12-29T23:43:35.526+00:00I wonder what's necessary for Long-Tailed Tits...I wonder what's necessary for Long-Tailed Tits. A continuous line of trees, maybe. I've often seen them working their way up tree-lined streets, with no natural landscape other than that.Ralph Hancockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11686354797977020917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-62664023826620104732014-12-29T20:14:25.922+00:002014-12-29T20:14:25.922+00:00I was in the gardens yesterday and noticed the you...I was in the gardens yesterday and noticed the young swan in one of the italian garden ponds. I thought it must be one of the seven from the long water but I counted the seven youngsters all of which were being chased away by their father. This swan also seems younger, showing a little more grey than the long water swans. <br />Do you think it can get out of the little pond? <br />SueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8278510471239667560.post-76628765441052987322014-12-29T18:13:56.725+00:002014-12-29T18:13:56.725+00:00I'm keeping some of my ivy long and uncut, so ...I'm keeping some of my ivy long and uncut, so maybe it will provide some food for the garden birds. I like to have a mix available for them of naturally occurring seedheads and grubs (I never use insecticide) and the seed in the feeders hanging from a Stags Horn Sumach. We're putting a couple of fat balls on the lawn too for ground feeders. Hope we don't encourage rodents by doing that! The long-tailed tits are extraordinarily charming - but we don't get any - just blue and great tits, though of course they are very lovely in their own right.Cathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09683657915069578017noreply@blogger.com