Siskins

My garden today was siskin central. While I was taking these pics I counted about 9 of them. Later on, there were 13 or 14 - it's hard counting birds as you get to 10 and one moves and you think "did I already count that one" haha.

This picture shows just how close that feeder is to the window. I have no zoom on and you can also see just how many feeders I have in this big "bush"

While I was "assuming the position" ready for the siskins to fly over, Mr robin landed on the feeder and I managed to press the button before he realised I was there and flew off. What a fab look on his face.

I was in a large B&Q yesterday, so thought I'd go see if they had any good bird feeders / food. They had quite an impressive section including niger seed and feeders, so I was having a good browse. I could hear tweeting, but thought it must have been some electronic bird thingie.

Then I saw a robin staring at me. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, I said. He was happy as anything hopping from side to side of the aisle, on the floor, flying up to get spilled seed. A woman pushed her trolly past, saw him and went OOOOOOOOOOO. "That's what I said" I told her.

Considering my robins hate the sight of me, I must have stayed there at least 15 minutes (while MrJoo was waiting for the tin of paint I was supposed to be getting ) I did try holding some seed out for him, but he just looked at me. I mentioned this at the checkout and she said he'd been seen there before Christmas. So whether that's his home and he doesn't go out, or he's in and out, I don't know. He certainly has plenty of food there.