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on December 31, 2010

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Squirrel and parakeet proof feeders

Squirrel and parakeet proof feeders In Regent's Park we have several areas where hanging bird feeders have erected. The feeding station in the Cricket Pen area 31 is well used by a variety of typical parkland birds and offers good views to the public. We battled for many years to prevent firstly the grey squirrels and then in the 90's the parakeets from using them. The squirrels often damage the feeders and aren't a species you should encourage into a garden especially if you have hedge nesting birds. The parakeets tend to monopolise them and when not eating will sit close by, thus deterring other birds from using them. Over the years I have tried many feeders from various companies, some work, others have failed miserably. At the moment suppliers, well not that I am a ware of haven't come up with a feeder that excludes these green pests but allows woodpeckers and Nuthatches to feed. I have adapted several feeders in recent years and now feel I have the perfect des...

The last 5 days in Regent's Park

Regent's Park, the last 6 days. Monday Red Kite: 3 birds drifted southwards around 11.30am 12th, Tuesday This was a very good day in the park. Tree Pipit: one landed briefly on a tree by area 39. Northern Wheatear: five birds were on the cricket squares area 37 for most of the day. Common Redstart: 2 males were in the Chat Enclosure, area 39 and a female was on the eastern side of the shrubbery by Ready Money Fountain, area 28. Lesser Whitethroat: one was also in the shrubbery east of the Ready Money Fountain, area 28. Wednesday Sedge Warbler: one was singing from the reed bed in area 5 and was still present 16th. Northern Wheatear: a female was on the sports pitches in area 24. Common Buzzard: one headed south east. Brambling: this was a great and surprising find by 2 birders taking an evening stroll. The bird was feeding on insects in a couple of small trees in area 36. Thursday Red Kite: one headed NW at 12.00pm. Common Buzzard: a steady pass...

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Cormorant Little Grebe Barn Swallow Black-headed Gull Common Chiffchaff Mandarin Duck Eurasian Skylark Reed Bunting Common Shelduck Common Whitethroat Stock Dove Peregrine Falcon Common Swift Great spotted Woodpecker Northern Wheatear Blackcap Herring Gull Kingfisher Green Woodpecker Redwing Reed Warbler Common Gull Common Teal Stonechat Mallard Meadow Pipit Northern Shoveler Egyptian Goose Little Egret Mistle Thrush Sedge Warbler Coot Grey Wagtail Whinchat Fieldfare Rose-ringed Parakeet Spotted Flycatcher Oak Processionary Moth Gadwall Northern Lapwing Nuthatch Canada Goose Common Pochard Lesser Black-backed Gull Pied Wagtail Starling Avocet Bearded Tit Black-tailed Godwit House Martin Moorhen Common Sandpiper Jay Marsh Harrier Red Kite Tawny Owl Turnstone Willow Warbler Scaup Eurasian Jackdaw European Wigeon Long-tailed tit Ringed Plover Sand Martin Blue Tit Common Snipe Greed Woodpecker Grey-lag Goose Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Sanderling Tree Creeper Common Redstart Little Tern Red Deer Redshank Tufted Duck Cetti's Warbler Eurasian Curlew Goldfinch Greenfinch Yellow Wagtail Barn Owl Carrion Crow Eurasian Linnet Eurasian Siskin Goldcrest Great tit Ruff Sandwich Tern Snow Bunting Water Rail Yellow-legged Gull Garden Warbler Knot Lesser Redpoll Magpie Pink-footed Goose Spoonbill Wren Banded Demoiselle Bar-headed Goose Bar-tailed Godwit Brent Goose Chough Lesser Whitethroat Oystercatcher Pied Flycatcher Robin Swallow Aythya Hybrid Aythya Hybrid Red C Pochardxtufted Barnacle Goose Common Crane Dunlin Gannet Greylag Goose Smew Wood Pigeon Blackbird Common Scoter Cuckoo Eurasian Golden Plover Firecrest Great Black-backed Gull Mediterranean Gull Osprey Shorelark Whimbrel Wryneck Yellow-browed Warbler Collared Dove European Goldeneye Fallow Deer Goosander Greenshank Grey Seal Hedge Sparrow Little ringed Plover Little-ringed Plover Northern Fulmar Red-breasted Merganser Song Thrush Tree Sparrow White Wagtail Yellow Hammer American Golden Plover Arctic Skua Bewick's Swan Blac-tailed Godwit Black-tailed Skimmer Buff-breasted Sandpiper Bufflehead Coal Tit Common Crossbill Common Seal Corn Bunting Coues's Arctic Redpoll Garganey Glossy Ibis Hermit Thrush House Sparrow Painted Lady Butterfly Shag Short-eared Owl Swallowtail Butterfly Waxwing Whooper Swan Wlison's Snipe Arctic Tern Azure Blue Damselfly Baikal Teal Beautiful Demoiselle Black-sided Skimmer Blue-headed Wagtail Blue-tailed Damselfly Broad-bodied Chaser Bullfinch Chaffinch Comma Butterfly Common Blue Common Pheasant Common Yellowthroat Common/Meally Redpoll Curlew Sandpiper Dotterel Eider Emperor Dragonfly European White-fronted Goose Gatekeeper Grass Snake Grasshopper Warbler Great Northern Diver Grey Partridge Grey Plover Grey-headed Wagtail Guillemot Hare Hen Harrier Herring Gull Aregentatus Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll Hornet Iceland Gull Jack Snipe Kittiwake Lesser Yellowlegs Little Stint Maned Goose Manx Shearwater Merlin Migrant Hawker Northern Pintail Ortolan Bunting Pacific Golden Plover Pallid Harrier Parrot Crossbill Purple Sandpiper Raven Red-backed Shrike Red-breasted Flycatcher Red-flanked Bluetail Red-footed Falcon Red-spotted Bluethroat Red-throated Diver Rook Ruddy Darter Sabine's Gull Short-billed Dowitcher Siberian Chiffchaff Spectacled Warbler Spotted Redshank Subalpine Warbler Syke's Warbler White-fronted Goose White-rumped Sandpiper White-spotted Bluethroat Wilsons Snipe ??? Damselfly Aberrant Common Swift Anas Hybrid Aregentine Ruddy Duck Asculapian Snake Aythya Hybrid Scaupxtufted Baltic Gull Birds Black Arches Moth Black Tern Black-eyed Junco Black-necked Grebe Black-throated Diver Black-winged Stilt Bonelli's Warbler Brambling Brown Hawker Brunnich's Guillemot Cackling Canada Goose Carolina Wood Duck Chinese Water Deer Cinnabar Moth Cirl Bunting Common Rosefinch Common Shrew Common Spotted Orchid Common Teal (Hybrid) Cricket Pen Damselflies Dark-eyed Junco Dartford Warbler Essex Skipper Eyed Hawk Moth Fox Golden Eagle Great Bittern Great Grey Shrike Green Sandpiper Green-veined White Green-winged Teal Greenish Warbler Greenland White-fronted Goose Grey Phalarope Hawfinch Hedgehog Honey Bee Swarm Hooded Merganser Hoopoe Hudsonian Whimbrel Jersey Tiger Moth Lapland Bunting Large Skipper Leech Lesser Black-backed Gull (intermedius race) Little Gull Long-tailed Skua Map Marbled White Butterfly May Fly Meally Redpoll Montagu's Harrier Nightjar Northern Goshawk Orangetip Butterfly Pale-bellied Brent Goose Pallas's Leaf Warbler Peacock Butterfly Peahen Pectoral Sandpiper Pomarine Skua Purple Heron Pyramidal Orchid Rabbit Razorbill Red Grouse Red-eared Terrapin Red-necked Grebe Red-necked Phalarope Richard's Pipit Richardson's Canada Goose Rock Pipit Roesel's Bush Cricket Rose-coloured Starling Rough-legged Buzzard Sacred Ibis Sandpiper sp Slavonian Grebe Small Copper Small Tortoiseshell Spanish Sparrow Spotted Crake Spotted Sandpiper Stag Beetle Stoat Temmimks Stint Tree Pipit Tudra Bean Goose Two-barred Crossbill Vapour Moth Velvet Scoter Western Bonelli's Warbler Western Sandpiper White-winged Black Tern Wilson's Phalarope Woodlark Yellow-legged Gull hybrid

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