Any keen bird feeders out there?

Ken68

Sparrows at the front of the house now, they've found a hole in the eves, despite purpose made boxes at the back.
Reed buntings back, am feeding on the top of the shed now, where birds can see approaching cats better.

Gers

I've been abroad / away from home for about 10 days and all the feeders were empty when I got back this afternoon. Even the squirrel feeder which the squirrel had ignored was empty so I suspect that it liked it eventually.

I filled them all up and then heard a bird making a noise - a chaffinch 'telling' all his mates that the feeders were full again. Then lots of fighting between them to get the sunflower hearts. Even some blue and great tits came back.

Happygreen

I moved into OH bedroom while he is away and the sparrows woke me up! they must be nesting already, lol. In my room I only hear blackbirds and crows....
on the feeders we have many yellowhammers this spring, very nice!

UnluckyT

the robin was so pleased and super nosy in my garden yesterday.
probably as i'd cut the grass and moved the composters plus contents, so lots of worms and bugs.

Fay

I had a brave robin following me last weekend while I weeded a border. It kept hopping off under the trees then coming back, edging closer each time.
We had a goldfinch yesterday but only the one, normally we have feeders full of them. It's meant to be raining most of today so may take the opportunity to re do all the feeders.
Sparrows are still going crazy for a large spiral feeder I have on the front of the house. Husband saw a very plump dunnock yesterday which he thinks was pregnant. She couldn't get up to the feeders so he put her some on the ground.

MrsShazbat

We get loads of birds and they hate it in the summer when I'm gardening. I can hear them in the trees chirping angrily! I feed them all winter, and have a bird table and bath all year round although the feeder has gone away for the summer (I fasten it to my washing line post which I need in the summer months). I get the odd squirrel (and a rat last year, ugh) having a go, and there's one annoying cat (of the many that pass through our garden) that not only uses my garden as its litter tray but tries to stalk the bird table in the winter.

I get sparrows, finches, dunnocks, wrens, blue tits, coal tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, robins (the youngest of which has taught itself to hang on the suet ball feeder), blackbirds, starlings (when the suet is out, not so much the rest of the time), jackdaws, wood pigeons, the occasional feral pigeon in the winter, magpies, crows sit in the trees but don't come down to feed, collared doves and, just after we moved in and never since, a woodpecker.

cally6008

Just got to share this ...

Decided to buy suet pellets and mealworms as a treat for birds and to bring the starlings back in to the garden.
Went out about 7am-ish and filled the mealworms feeder back up.

Just before 8am, walked in kitchen and went ... OH MY, WOW ...
There was a Heron stood on the back fence, as proud as anything
Gulp, managed to get a photo and short video

Ken68

Good for you Cally, similar happened a few weeks ago here. Dud camera, so just memories. Pterodactyl'ish.

Happygreen

It's so lovely to have so many birds back although it must be a difficult spring for them. We had 10 inches of snow and storms the last week. The egg robbing crows are back in full force, I watched one trying to fly off with a baby pigeon which it then dropped in my vegetable patch. Such a shame, there was nothing I could do. I managed to interrupt 2 attempts of Wren's nest building, first in the shed (which I need to use occasionally!), then 2nd in the apple harvesting basket (which I wanted to use to get some duck eggs out form under the hedge....) I hope Wren will go back in there now I put it back where it was

Gers

The birds have changed their eating habits - not so many at the peanuts but loads feeding on sunflower hearts and sunflower seeds - including the squirrrel this morning. Even he's not too keen on peanuts just now, he eats a couple from the squirrel feeder but that's all.



All the stuff he's scavenging on is debris from the sunflower hearts, the birds seem to skin them just as much as the seeds.