"Jeff C" wrote in message
news:20052822137.503765@jeff...


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 13:41:51 +0000, Paul D.Smith wrote:
My current seed feeder is one of those cylinders with a "trough"
around the bottom. Problem is the pigeons have figured out how to
perch on there, albeit at weird angles, so empty it in a day and a
half.

If I buy a feeder with those small individual perches, will the
pigeons defeat that or will that be suffiently trickey that they'll
fail?

Anyone with experience of persistent, and it must be said clever,
pigeons care to comment.

Paul DS.

More by accident than by design, but the birds and squirrels in my
garden seem to stay in their own feeding areas. I have one RSPB feeder
with small perches, this is filled with mixed wild bird seed that
sparrows mainly feed from.

One squirrel proof feeder filled with peanuts that is almost
exclusively used by blue tits.

One hanging bird table that swings too much if pigeons try to get to
it which starlings, when they are about seem to prefer, this is
usually filled with bread crumbs, old biscuits and wild bird seed.

A couple of plastic cups on either end of the garage gutter, with
peanuts in, which seem to be used exclusively by magpies.

And finally an old flower basket hanging from the shed with a mixture
of shelled and unshelled peanuts which the pigeons and squirrels fight
for.

With a couple of handful of wild bird seed thrown under the shrubs for
the black birds.

The cost?

One big sack of wild bird seed usually lasts a year, and a 5kg bag of
peanuts lasts about six weeks. I think its worth it for the pleasure.

That must be one big, big sack of wild bird seed!
I get through 25Kg per month, nearly filling a 2 litre plastic bottle
feeder each day.#

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