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A great sight for us this morning, directly outside our home a Greater Spotted Woodpecker was feeding on the trunk of a small Rowan tree sited on the verge. I managed to get some pics and videos, but all too poor a definition to post here. Last time I saw this species was in our back garden...

I’d never seen woodpeckers in my life, but had heard them. Until one summer about 12 years ago, we had both those species in our garden. The Westdene and Withdean Woods are significant when eg you look at google earth, must be teeming with fauna.

We had a Green Woodpecker in our gardn a couple of months ago. Feeding on ants nests, very kindly aerating the lawn. The same one? Throughout the long wet winter we had a charm of Goldfinches feeding on a load of Teasels I’d allowed to remain. So tiny, it was my daughter (young eyes) who...

The only brutal thing I’ve seen was a magpie torturing a chaffinch. Reminded me of televised autobio drama 20 years ago, The Alan Clark Diaries, the charismatic MP who lived in a castle near Hythe. He spoke about the mental anguish after despatching magpies, something he did legally because...

A few years ago squirrel/s worked out how to remove the top lid to one of these, to get to the sunflower hearts. Kept happening. Full marks for ingenuity. In the end I used some hanger wire to create an additional clasp over the lid. Our most varied time for birds were those incredibly...

Are your successful feeders in wide open ground or by hedges? Nervous of cats, magpies and sparrow-hawks, I’ve haven’t yet worked out their preference. By hedges allows predators to lie in wait.

My Dad (a long time feeder of birds) found that small species are scared off by the Woodpigeons and Squirrels, also spooked by Sparrowhawks. The outer cage type of feeder really helped.

Are the feeders the type with a large mesh outer cage too? The only way to beat squirrels and large birds.