Any keen bird feeders out there?

Fay

Here's what you saw
Blackbird x3
Blue tit x4
Chaffinch x3
Coal tit x1
Dunnock x1
Goldfinch x2
Great tit x4
House sparrow x1
Long-tailed tit x1
Robin x1
Blackcap x1
Grey squirrel seen daily
Hedgehog seen less than monthly

Gers

Well the pieces of apple off the ground are gone but the pieces on the ground are still there. None of the birds wanted the banana which is just mush now.

Will try the potato today. Birdwatch went well as I had 'hordes' of chaffinches and sparrows as well as eight pairs of goldfinches.

REEN

Gers wrote: »

My attempt to refill the empty coconut shells was a disaster...melted the lard, added seeds and filled them up. Then the stuff leaked out, seems the shells are porous and everything just seeped out, all over the kitchen bench.

Not happy!

I was thinking of trying that, thanks for the warning Gers!

torbrex

Gers wrote: »

My attempt to refill the empty coconut shells was a disaster...melted the lard, added seeds and filled them up. Then the stuff leaked out, seems the shells are porous and everything just seeped out, all over the kitchen bench.

Not happy!

You were too quick to put the mixture in the shell, it needs to cool down before you do it.
If you want to make some, you can use the plastic tray the Muller yoghurt come in, just attach a bit of string first.

I use the plastic tray that the suet blocks come in and refill them with my own mixture, I also use toilet roll tubes with one end sealed with baking paper and the result fits nicely in the fat ball holder

Gers

Thanks for the advice Torbrex, will try that next time. Was so annoyed yesterday.

Reen - that's the answer it seems. Just me being hasty, though the thought never passed between my ears!

Got more sultanas soaking. Potato steaming. Let's see if the birds take to it.

I saw on a website a kind of adapted kitchen hook for spearing an apple/potato/fat ball to and then hang from a tree. Almost bought one and then moved away from the idea. It's far too windy here and it was far too expensive for what it was, even though I liked it.

El_Capitan

Hardly any birds on my birdwatch!
Birds in my garden:
Great tit x1
Blue tit x1
Wood pigeon x1
Squirrel x1
Neighbours cats x2

Birds happily playing in park behind with no knowledge of my garden:
Blackbirds
Crows
Magpies
Possible sparrow
More pigeons

Birds flying past ignoring my garden:
Ring necked parakeets
Heron

Ken68

Parakeets , blimey Captain. You in the Bahamas.
And ditto neighbours cat..
Nothing exotic here, just sparrows, pigeons and starling. A few blackbirds.

El_Capitan

No London - loads of them around here! Noisy blighters too.

Was hoping to see a second blue tit and a "small brown bird, not a blackbird" seen by my OH earlier in the week.

In the past we've even had Kingfishers on the back wall (there's a river on the other side) but I've not seen them for about a year. No idea what would tempt them in, maybe a tin of sardines?

Happygreen

It was unusually quiet yesterday except, wait for it..............

a sparrowhawk right outside my kitchen window! I didn't see what he caught but I assume it was a Wren as I saw another lonely one later on.

Other than that, we had 2 crows, stealing hen food, 1 pheasant, doing the same , roughly 18 sparrrows, hard to count!, 3 robins and 4 blackbirds (no sign of the male with the white wing feathers)

Ken68

Sad, HG, a Wren, should have had a crow.