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Old 22-03-2004, 10:12 AM
Anne Burgess
 
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Default Lack of invertebrates / house sparrows (was Reed Buntings)

Is the seed actually being eaten or is it all ending up on the floor
as the fussy gits spit it out?
Colonel Bloomer


Most of what the 'choosy' birds drop on the ground gets picked up by
chaffinches, bramblings, blackbirds, robins and dunnocks which have learned that
there are good pickings below the feeders.

Anne