Sunflower hearts are a big favourite with the birds, attracting a wide variety of species with little being wasted. Amongst all our feeders here, it's certainly the hearts which need refilling more often than the others. As most of October was unseasonably warm, the feeders weren't emptying quite as quick as they normally would, so now as the temperature drops you should start to find activity in the garden increases. Anyway... the point of all this is to say we are extending our deal on sunflower hearts until the end of November.
In the shop we now have our super 2019 calendars, featuring all twelve months of the year (including April) and some cracking photographs, a bargain at £5. Talking of cracking photos, we now have a new selection of Feathers cards, always popular at £1 each. They're blank inside but we're happy to write a message in them for you if you'd like.
On the bird front, we spotted our first redwings of the winter in early October. Redwings, fieldfares, blackbirds and starlings flock to the UK and other parts of western Europe in autumn from their breeding grounds in the east and north of the continent. In really cold conditions, redwings and fieldfares will turn up in gardens in search of food, but for now they are mostly enjoying what seems to be a bountiful supply of berries.
While these are all on our list, which is still at 99 species, one winter visitor is missing... here's hoping we can make it to a ton with a waxwing. Fingers crossed!
Joe
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