Wild birds in the garden (merged threads)

Hunnymonster

They get the Ritz at our place lol

Sunflower hearts (we buy by the half-hundredweight sack from the local pet shop), sunflower seeds, mixed seed, peanuts (whole and chipped), fatcake, coconuts, scraps, soaked sultanas, niger seed, fat balls.....

Rewarded us with the following visitors in the eight months or so since we put the garden together (it's a new build and the garden was literally bare earth before)

1. Blue Tit
2. Coal Tit
3. Great Tit
4. Chaffinch
5. Greenfinch
6. Goldfinch
7. Pied Wagtail
8. Collared Dove
9. Woodpigeon
10. Song Thrush
11. Blackbird
12. Dunnock
13. Robin
14. Wren
15. Great Spotted Woodpecker
16. Nuthatch
17. House Sparrow
18. Tree Sparrow
19. Starling
20. Pheasant
21. Sparrowhawk
22. Jackdaw
23. Carrion Crow
24. Black-headed Gull
25. Herring Gull
26. Yellowhammer
27. Siskin
28. Brambling
29. Goldcrest

Some that have flown over but haven't landed (yet):

House Martin
Swallow
Grey Heron
Common Buzzard
Oystercatcher

There's also been a Tawny Owl - it's been heard (in fact there are at least 3 audible most nights here), but not seen - close enough to have dropped a pellet on the back step (so that got dissected to see what it had been eating lol)

GreenNotM

Hunnymonster wrote:

They get the Ritz at our place lol

Some that have flown over but haven't landed (yet):

House Martin
Swallow
Grey Heron
Common Buzzard
Oystercatcher

A carp pond is good for getting the herons to land :eek:

We have a few cats around, so now only the larger birds are left :sad: - in numbers. Wood pidgeons, Jays, magpies, crows, starlings, blackbirds. I live inside the North Circ as well.

I only feed from either peanut cage or a seed feeder hanging in my window from the eaves - I get various tits and starlings - but it is always nice to see some tits on my nuts .... :whistle:

And for all the MSE's :money: ASDA sell own brand wild bird food 0.9kg for 92 pence and always discount their bird feeders and bird food in spring and autumn as their lines change. And Costco do the very large bags of branded bird feed.

calmgirl

be carfull of kitchen food waste on the ground as this will encourage rats

also we have a fat trap pot ( from somewhere on this site) that you pour all your cooking fat and oil into when you are finished with it when it gets full put it the fridge and then put it out the birds love it with us.

Andybez38

I have just bought some freeze dried mealworms to scatter on the bird table, the birds seem to love em too. some of the regular visitors im getting are

Blackbird
Robin
Great tit
Blue tit
coal tit
starling
Long Tail tit
Magpie
Chaffinch
pied wagtail
Goldfinch
greenfinch
wood pigeon
redpoll
wren
dunnock
house sparrow