Mouldy peanuts / Bird Table

MrsRogers

Hello all

I wonder if anyone can help me. I have been putting out peanuts for the birds all winter however I have thrown away far more then they have eaten due to them going mouldy with this weather.
I love feeding the birds however wasting the money is drive me mad:mad:

I have also been putting bread out on the mesh holder bit on my brid feeder however have noticed its going to stodge and mouldy. :mad:

Please help with any advice / tips or words of wisdom before I give up.

Note I have moved into this house in May last year and never seemed to have this issue in my old house and fed the birds for years!

Thank you in advance

meritaten

was there a cat previously living in the house? the local birds may have avoided it like the plague!
I had the opposite problem - I fed the birds for years and they would eat whatever I provided! I had a hard job keeping up with thier appetites. then my sons cat moved in last summer and oh dear, he caught a few! this winter, even though the cat has gone now, some of the feeders are untouched - the peanut feeder is a solid block of mouldy peanuts but the one which is higher is ok, a few sparrows and robins have fed from that. but the great t*ts, blue t*ts and thrushes wont come near!
I am hoping that if I am patient and put some new feeders out higher then the lovely birds will come back!

dogcat_2

Strangely...I have the same problem...my bird food has gone mouldy too....yet I see birds feeding from other peoples feeders....very weird...

Sambucus_Nigra

Different birds eat different things, are you sure it's peanuts that the birds 'round your way' want?

Slinky

I think the birds round our way have got fussier taste than peanuts. We put fatballs out, as do our neighbours. The peanut feeder went untouched for so long the nuts went mouldy and tbh we don't bother feeding peanuts anymore as they prefer the fatballs.

Both I and my neighbours have cats and have done for years.

soupdragon10

I have 6 cats but this has never seemed to put off the birds where we are. I did find that we had to move the bird tables around a bit to find out where they felt safest - eventually got it right.

I have my own fat cakes using seed, peanuts and lard/dripping as it can get so windy bread and peanut feeders can get blown away.

Have you tried re siting your bird table/feeders. Our birds like a nice big open space around the table, I suppose they can see predators coming more easily.

onlyroz

Try something else, like sunflower seeds.

mountainofdebt

OH will only fill the peanut / seed feeders about a third full and we've found it stops the food going off.

Red_Cat

Don't forget water too! Birds need a drink.