On Aug 12, 1:54*pm, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:46:03 -0700 (PDT), Judith in France



wrote:
On Aug 12, 1:23*pm, "Spider" wrote:
"Judith in France" wrote in ...
On Aug 12, 12:52 pm, "Spider" wrote:

"Sacha" wrote in message

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On 2009-08-11 15:42:09 +0100, Steve said:

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:32:38 +0100, Sacha wrote:

On 2009-08-11 14:15:52 +0100, Steve said:

I find mine seem to prefer the sunflower seed whole rather than
dehulled, they seem to enjoy removing the shell. That said it's
pretty
quiet of late anyhow.

How do you find your seed mixes?

I'm also looking for decent bulk supplies say 20/25kg at a time.. Any
recommendations? thnx

If you Google entering "wild bird seed bulk" you'll get a tremendous
range of choice.

Yes I do appreciate this. My thoughts were on recommendations from
those who buy a seed brand and it is all scoffed up. Normal wild bird
mix is fine for us here, but some contain a lot more of the cheap
wheat etc than others. Be nice to find a succesful good quality brand
at a good price.

We just seem to have blackbird/chaffinch/hedge
sparrow/dove/pigeon/woodpecker with occasional tit visitors so a
normal mix is fine as we cant really affored to specialise.

thnx to all.

I bought some from Seapets (yes, they do birdfood) and it's gone down a
treat. It's about £13.50 for 12.5kg IIRC. Your selection of birds sounds
very like ours but I think wood peckers tend to go more for peanut
feeders.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
Shrubs & perennials. Tender & exotics.
South Devon

Woodpeckers *love* fat balls, esp. the huge ones. An incidental bonus is
that the ground feeders get the crumbs after the W'pecker has hammered
them
to pieces.

Spider

Spider, oh exalted knowledge of all stuff, yes, I am being sincere, I
have learned a lot of stuff from your postings,

:~) *Blush! * Ooooh, I've gone all over unnecessary!

tell me, a bird, pecking a hole in a bird box to get to the chicks inside,
would that
be a woodpecker?

Yes, it's certainly possible. *I've seen the Greater Spotted Woodpecker at a
nest box in my garden. *I asked the Warden of the local wood about it and he
wasn't in the least surprised. *I didn't know whether to be glad I'd seen
'Woody', or to feel sorry for the chicks. *(Typical wild life
non-intervention dilema).

As you can tell, I don't know one bird from another,
I even got a gull and a pigeon mixed up the other day.

:~)! *Well, the silly things will all have beaks, won't they?! *.... and they
all look the same after a glass of red wine. *It's time you dropped a hint
about a good bird book for Christmas.

Spider

Judith

Yes, they all have beaks and two legs, how on earth am I supposed to
know!!! *

The ones that lay giant eggs and can run faster than you are more probably
ostriches than dodos. The Norwegian Blues are extinct..

No more books please, I have a tome that I bought to help
identify mushrooms, unfortunately the colours in the book don't always
match the mushroom.

Better than the expert in Country File who put the poisonous ones in the basket
with the good ones and, if we naively believe what was shown, took them to a
local hotel to have them cooked.
--

Martin

I didn't see that! All the pharmacies here do a good job on
identifying them, I can easily identify 2 but not the others.

Judith