Any keen bird feeders out there?

Fay

Well the birds are coming back, more tits in the last week, robins have been here all summer but they're on the feeders more now, nut hatches have come back and the wood peckers seem to be in love with the suet balls we have. No finches yet tho...

KxMx

I am also seeing my year round Robin more frequently, and have seen an increase in general visiting.

Ken68

Boyes have a sale..500g Mealworms £4.99. On for a few weeks.


Store locator...http://www.boyes.co.uk/stores/store_finder.html

cally6008

B&M stores have the tubs of 50 fat balls on for £3-99
not sure how long the offer will last for

Gers

I've started putting out sunflower hearts again as the weather is so foul.

The finches prefer the sunflower hearts over sunflower seeds whilst the tits are split between peanuts and sunflower hearts. Certainly the sunflower seeds are the least attractive and left until last. Sunflower hearts disappear very rapidly whilst peanuts are pecked at for ages.

I have it in my mind that the peanuts give fewer benefits that the other two because of all that pecking and nibbling that goes on to get some out of the feeder. Perhaps I need to go back to peanut bashing to get smaller bits for them.

REEN

Yesterday one of the dunnocks came in the house when I left the back door open. It took about 2 hours of slow and steady barricading with cushions and gentle guiding from room to room, with plenty of rests to let it recover, to get it out!

Gers

Reen wrote: »

Yesterday one of the dunnocks came in the house when I left the back door open. It took about 2 hours of slow and steady barricading with cushions and gentle guiding from room to room, with plenty of rests to let it recover, to get it out!

Oh dear! I hope it didn't express it's fear with splatterings of poop! And that you recovered too.

Swallows often swoop into our front room in the summer if the front door is open, this year we had two at once. Luckily they only flapped around briefly and safely found the exit.

Earlier in August there was a poor starling in the woodburner stove. That took two of us to get out safely without soot being scattered around the living room, or piles of poop. I had covered the stove up with a blanket which I waited for help to arrive as it was very agitated when it could see me or 'freedom'. The blanket helped quieten it down.

cajef

Gers wrote: »

Perhaps I need to go back to peanut bashing to get smaller bits for them.

I gave that up a long time ago I just buy these

ttp://www.arkwildlife.co.uk/Item/Straight_Foods~Peanut_Kernels/PEAG/Peanut_Granules.html

REEN

No poop Gers, we both stayed chilled!

I would love a close-up view of swallows like that! Beautiful birds.

Happygreen

little robin is waiting for me every morning in the elder tree to get some bits when I feed the chickens, lovely. It hardly flies away now and talks to me , lol