Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

chris_m

I tried one of those window feeders but had no visitors for over a month, so I took it down.
What I have now is a feeder hanging from the eaves, just outside a 1st floor window, the one beside my den chair so I can watch as I work on the PC. It took about a week before anything found it, then the queues commenced.

michaels

I am waiting whilst dd1 does her clarinet exam (DW is doing the school run). Looks like there is no risk of a drought this summer

Wheezy_2

oldandhappy wrote: »

... but looks like summer will arrive in July. Locals have been saying not been like this in 30 years....not in that accent though;)
BW Dianne

I hope so, because we have rented a 'gite' in the French Alps (not really your corner, I know...) first two weeks of July.

SingleSue wrote: »

Well it was....Boney M now.

Ra Ra Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen! :rotfl:

ukmaggie45

bugslet wrote: »

For some reason the birdfeeders at home are not popular, maybe too much choice around, but at work, we have a lovely selection of finches and tits turning up. I had the same problem with pigeons who are surprisingly inventive - I've solved them getting to the feeders, but they all hang around waiting for spare seeds dropping when the finches are around. Very irritating.

Advantage to the pigeons hoovering up the discarded seeds is you're less likely to get rats. Previous owners of next door but one put out too much seed on patio outside their french windows, and suddenly we have a rat problem. Pest bloke told them to stop feeding the birds, and put caged bait down. Not seen a rat recently. New people in that house now.

SingleSue

I'm asking on this bit instead of in the proper banking bit because you lot are much nicer and it's a lot less scary doing it here rather than there!

Youngest wants a savings account to prepare for uni next year, he has no lump sum to pay in but would like to save a regular amount each week or month but with no penalty for withdrawing money if needed (he has no plans to but would like to have a just in case fallback). The amounts he would be able to save would be quite small each time, so minimum amounts, if any, would have to be small and he would like to be able to manage it online with easy transfers from his main bank account.

He currently has an account with Santander and I (and he) has looked at them but was wondering if anyone else had ideas of the best return for his particular circumstances at other banks.

Thankies!

Pyxis

bugslet wrote: »

For some reason the birdfeeders at home are not popular, maybe too much choice around, but at work, we have a lovely selection of finches and tits turning up. I had the same problem with pigeons who are surprisingly inventive - I've solved them getting to the feeders, but they all hang around waiting for spare seeds dropping when the finches are around. Very irritating.

I solved this problem with a Heath Robinson mash-up!

Hang the bird feeder from a hook.
From the same hook hang, with three or four pieces of string, one of those large mesh food covers, made of metal (aluminium alloy?), upside down, so that it is hanging far enough under the bottom of the bird feeder for a pigeon perching on it to be unable to reach the feeding hole on the bird-feeder.

Cut a piece of plasticised mesh fencing/chicken wire type thing big enough to wedge over the top of the upturned food cover thing, so that it doesn't fall down into the food cover. You can wind bits of it around the suspension strings to secure it.

The food cover will catch seeds that fall out of the bird feeder when the birds are feeding, but the plasticised mesh will stop pigeons sitting in the food cover and having a bean feast.

I also put a plastic dome guard over the top of the bird feeder to deter squirrels, and add some pleasing mirror-image symmetry. :D

An added advantage is that it stops those falling seeds from landing in your lawn/flower-bed and sprouting into weeds!

NB. You do need to empty the accumulated seed in the food cover reasonably regularly, otherwise it goes mouldy.

I'll see if I can draw a sketch to illustrate, although my drawing ability is so awful that it might hinder more than help! :rotfl:


Edit. Now, remember, I DID say I was hopeless at drawing!!

I've left the anti-squirrel cover off, for clarity.


Not To Scale.

GDB2222

Looking at this forum in Chrome on my ipad, I was getting some nasty pop-ups. But, there's no problem looking at it on my PC, also using Chrome.

So, have I got something nasty on my ipad, or is the pop-up blocker on ios Chrome simply carp?

Wheezy_2

GDB2222 wrote: »

Looking at this forum in Chrome on my ipad, I was getting some nasty pop-ups. But, there's no problem looking at it on my PC, also using Chrome.

So, have I got something nasty on my ipad, or is the pop-up blocker on ios Chrome simply carp?

As our IT dept would say, try a reboot and if that doesn't help, log a ticket.

Pyxis

I use an iPad, but with Safari. No pop-ups so far.




NB. I have edited my previous post to include the 'diagram' of the anti-pigeon bird-feeder seed-catcher!

GDB2222

Wheezy wrote: »

As our IT dept would say, try a reboot and if that doesn't help, log a ticket.

I'll PM the ticket to you, thanks.