I couldn't shoot anything living even the Magpie, will try and deter it in other ways, (just a big soft lump I suppose) Flash (cat) has had a pidgeon before now so I suppose it could have been a cat.
My brother and son are in a shooting club but still couldn't face him shooting a bird. Nephew doing very well in the competitions as well (I'm very proud of him
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Lovely photo of the finch.
Finches are the next ones I want to try and get to use my feeder, it's really annoying as my daughter only lives lower down our street, and has lots of lovely coloured finches etc around, maybe because at the back there is what once was an orchard, just overgrown now with quite a few trees.
I have managed to get rid of some of the pidgeons and doves they are proper greedy guts and scoffed most of the food in the hanging dish. I don't put anything in that now but have another dish higher up the feeding pole which has an umbrella over it and only the small birds can use it, the Blue Tits use it all the time rather than the ground feeder (do they not feed off the ground?)
Have to take phot's through window as not sitting at the top of the garden waiting ---- it's too cold!! (never make a twitcher will I)
