December Winner: Markulous and Year Winner: Wild Canon

Congratulations to Markulous on winning the final competition of 2009 and Wild Canon on winning the overall competition for the year!

The top 3 members this year were:

1st - Wild Canon (80 votes)
2nd - Markulous (40 votes)
3rd - Keith (33 votes)

Congratuations to all three of you and also a big thanks to everyone who entered this year. If you'd like to know your score then please contact Jamie.

As you know, this was Jamie's last month running the competition so a huge thank you to him from everyone at the forum. He's run the competition brilliantly and I'm sure you'll agree it's been a big success.

There will be no January competition this year but hopefully we should have something sorted for February.

Thanks and happy new year!



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Dead Blackbird

Now I've not seen many Blackbirds around and they haven't really been visiting my feeders but tonight I go out and there's a couple - but there's also a dead one on the path with no obvious cause of death. Icon_sad

As I was speaking to my neighbour, we both saw another that wasn't flying too well and he said that he'd seen one that was not in the fittest of health. Now I appreciate it's cold but it's really not that cold and, as I say, there's plenty of food at my feeders.

Anyone with any ideas?

09-01-2010 04:49 PM
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RE: Dead Blackbird

That`s a bit of a worry, isn`t it? Are you putting water out too, so that they can keep their feathers in best condition? A ping-pong ball on the water container might stop the water from freezing completely, especially if there`s a wind! The RSPB was on BBC news this morning, reminding us what a desperate struggle our garden birds are having in this weather... will be interesting to see what the annual RSPB birdwatch (30/31 Jan) reveals!

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Yup, water bowl out each day - as you can see Mr(s) Robin is appreciative (taken yesterday morning)

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....oh, lovely pic!

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Thanks! Icon_wink

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My first suspicion would be that someone (not you!) is putting out something which is unsuitable for the birds and the blackbirds have eaten it.


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Yeah, it could be that, I guess. There's only the one neighbour (and they just feed birds - it's a bit of a competition: who can get the most and the best at their feeders! Icon_cheesygrin) - and the farmer who has chickens and think it's possible that the Blackbirds have eaten the inevitable rat poison that'll he'll put down Icon_sad

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That`s horrible news Markulous,all i get at our table is blackbirds,lol and don`t they crap alot lol,they are always doing it in the seeds,it`s disgusting.They`re also fussy with what they eat,they rumige through the seeds looking for perticular ones.


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