Stars - Brilliant Tonight

Nice of you to drop in

Thank you!

Magnificent night for star gazing indeed. I feed the birds in the morning but don`t leave out food overnight - rats. Just spent another 40 quid on bird feed on Amazon last week. Must look after our feathered friends.

Post of the week,plenty of blue tits,coal ,and gold,,and1 finch,.i is he garden . still went fishing yesterday, 2 kingfishers ,,and a green woodpecker , buzzards,a plenty ,.... happy days

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Orion's looking particularly impressive.

The local blue tits are already checking out the bird house. Never seen them in there so early.
Very pleased to hear from the good folks of the forum on this. Our feathered friends have friends.

The blue tits here have only gone and built a nest in me flipping telescope

I've been feeding garden birds for years .I love all the garden birds and i love helping them out .I also , often have peanuts in my bag , which i feed to the pigeons , when i'm out and about . Regarding , stargazing , just been out to take a look with my binoculars and i can't see a thing . I'm in Liverpool .

Just looked outside - clouds! or snow or fog or whatever.
Can only just see the impressive Orion now.

Never mind - no need for a telescope. Should be vacant posession of telescope in May :)

Goodnight good people, stay safe in the snow and ice.

Goodnight , parachute .

Jan 30, 2019 -- 11:49PM, themightymac wrote:

Nice of you to drop in

Just noticed that Mac.  Very good

Blue tits early, Para?  They're always here in Perth.

I've three feeders top of my kitchen window.  Peanuts, mixed seeds and fatball.

Orion's just about standing on the southwest horizon, Culvin.

Trilby - UK blue tits living in Western Australia now?
That referendum has had so many unforeseen consequences.
Thanks for looking after them. G'Day Trilby.
Goodnight, its gone midnight here.

Bonnie Scotland, Para

G'Night Cobber

Trilby and Aka are experts on Blue Tits

.... sorry trilby, I couldn`t resist

Talking about Tits, here is my favourite.

Great pics , mightymac . I especially love Blackbird's and Robin's . I fed them , an hour ago , them and the Jackdaws , Tits , pigeons , and Collared Doves . I love birds . I feed them every morning . This morning , i fed them grapes , seed , and crumbled biscuit , and fatballs . At around 3 , today , i'll feed them again .

some belting photographs of aurora last night, islay, mull, skye etc.

PLEASE , post them , morpteh .

are on here https://www.facebook.com/groups/AuroraUK/  but have to join first ( i think ) . i'm sure if do a search on google for last night photos can be found.

OK .

Well done Culvin feeding our feathered friends.

2nd photo from bottom is a Linnet. Used to be hundreds of them about here but never seen one in twenty years. Same with Skylarks. Their habitat is fastly disappearing.

Fantastic pictures Morpeth.

i do voluntary work at a wildlife bog ( reclaimed farmland ) and there's a right herd of linnet there at the moment. 
second one down in photographs  is a hoopoe, can be seen on scilly isles don't come much further north.

4th one down is a Hoopoe I`m sure you meant. Beautiful bird. Any photos of the Linnets Morpeth where you do the voluntary work?

Same with Coal Tits (top photo), used to be hundreds around here but never see one now since they closed all the mines

linnets are buggers, up in tree get binoculars out and get quite jumpy. noisy too, there was a sing off last week between them and a squadron of goldcrest.