Cheep Birdseed help please???

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chilli powder is supposed to work

blue_monkey_2

Poundland do a ot of the Bill Oddie ones for - well - £1 a bag.

I get my birdseed from my local farm shop and it is 25p a kilo. You might want to ask your local farmshop as some do deliveries.

What area do you live in, maybe we can then offer more help to find somewhere that delivers your way.

bordercars

kittie wrote: »

chilli powder is supposed to work

tried that as well.

i now have a problem, we back onto a forest and the ones we get look to be the same 3. seriously, they do have characters, anyway the wife's started calling one Tufty cos hes has the ears. and i was thinking about shooting them. if its the same 3 and i get rid will a different mob come in and take over. i dont mind them taking nuts but they toss the bird seed everywhere and it's wasted.
so they have curry and chillie powder on there food what should i try next , i dont want to go into competition with the local curry house, but could supply them with a little meat:rolleyes:

alanobrien

bordercars wrote: »

anyone know how to stop the cute but greedy squirrels , read about curry powder but they like that

A cat works........ours eats them :eek:

Oblivion

bordercars wrote: »

tried that as well.

i now have a problem, we back onto a forest and the ones we get look to be the same 3. seriously, they do have characters, anyway the wife's started calling one Tufty cos hes has the ears. and i was thinking about shooting them. if its the same 3 and i get rid will a different mob come in and take over. i dont mind them taking nuts but they toss the bird seed everywhere and it's wasted.
so they have curry and chillie powder on there food what should i try next , i dont want to go into competition with the local curry house, but could supply them with a little meat:rolleyes:

We have a squirrel, or Tree Rat as I prefer to call them, problem here. We also back onto woodland, and typically get 4 to 5 regulars coming to raid the bird feeder which I have on a pole outside the kitchen window.

I frequently carry out a cull in the woods with my air rifle fitted with a telescopic sight, and for a couple of weeks all is quiet, but then a new lot discover the area is unoccupied and move in :mad: .

Even the stronger feeders with metal fittings get chewed through in a matter of months. My neighbour had a tree rat nesting in his loft once. A power cable ran across the loft to serve an outside light that was on a timer. One day the lights fused and we went up to investigate. This tree rat had eaten away all the plastic covering from the cable along a 1 metre stretch, leaving the three wires totally bare but not touching each other. Seems they love this plastic outer coating.

This vermin got his come-uppance when he chose to have his next 'meal' just as the timer switched on ... Bzzzzzt ... one char-grilled tree rat! :rotfl: . It was very fortunate that my neighbour didn't have a serious fire. As to the damage they do to the trees, just don't get me started!

I have a new cunning plan to try out in the new year. I'm going to run a power cable out of the kitchen window and adapt a couple of wooden clothes pegs so that I can clip a live contact to one perch and a neutral contact to another perch and just lie in wait in the kitchen until a tree rat mounts the feeder. Throw the switch and ...... frying tonight!

Dave.

hethmar

Ive just humped a bag home from our farm shop - 13 kg for £6.95.

bordercars

alanobrien wrote: »

A cat works........ours eats them :eek:

i was really surprised a couple of weeks ago , the ginger cat trotting round the garden with one in its mouth. believe it or not they leave the birds alone.

and to make matters far worse "google" my surname. it's not a common name, so it's not like im saying my ancestor david BROWN made the tractors or anything, it's brocklehurst. turns out some colonel introduced the grey on his estate.

peter_the_piper

I sieve the waste from my aviary birds leftovers, they are wasteful so there's plenty of food for the wild ones.

dredwing

I just ordered a loads of nuts and seeds from this place
http://www.food4wildbirds.co.uk/

Free delivery over £20 and it arrived yday so next day delivery.
Looks like quality food and looking outside the birds seem to prefer them to the feeders that have food from Pets At Home in them (also quite cheap but looks less good quality).

Always remember to put some water out for them as well

mgardner

bordercars wrote: »

anyone know how to stop the cute but greedy squirrels , read about curry powder but they like that

Every living thing has the right to live, read eat, why would you want to discrimate against the cute squirrel. Curry powder, chilli powder etc would not be a pleasant experience for it