No squirrels no house sparroews no starlings

normally teeming with greenfinches, coal tits and blue tits though, can't
understand where they've all gone


"Terry Harper" wrote in message
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"trevor.appleton" wrote in message
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Back in September my bird feeders were covered in greenfinches, colat
tits,
blue and great tits, the odd tree sparrow too.

In October they suddenly stopped coming so I threw the peanuts away and
put
up fresh - they returned.

A few weeks ago I spent 20 quid on a large sack of peanuts, and guess
what,
yes they've deserted me. It it likely to be the peanuts (they are also
ignoring the black sunflower seeds).

I've noticed the peanuts are all slightly pecked along the full length
of
the feeders.

Don't you have squirrels too? They nibble along the whole length of the
peanut tube. Saw one with a mouthful of grass yesterday, obviously off to
do
a bit of dray building.

Yesterday I had at least 20 house sparrows on, around and beneath both
peanut and black sunflower seed feeders. Today at one stage I had about
12-15 starlings after the peanuts. Also one female greater spotted
woodpecker enjoying the peanuts and a couple of nuthatches.

Every now and then something spooks them and they all disappear, including
the squirrels. I would put your problem down to either better pickings
elsewhere or something scaring them away.
--
Terry Harper
http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/




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