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Originally Posted by Moonraker
I, for years, have put out mixed seed and peanuts for our feathered
friends. Up until this year I have never had many peanuts eaten, I need
to refill the seed feeders daily, but the peanut one perhaps once in the
Winter. This year they are eating more peanuts than seed, I wonder why.
I would have put it down to the cold weather, except that they were
doing this in early Autumn before we were zapped by anti global warming.
Any ideas why this should be? I have the same selection of birds as
other years.
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Two thoughts 1) are you getting more squirrels than usual? Round here they are still active and feeding.
2) You may be getting the same selection of bird species but not necessarily the same birds - life span is quite short. And birds learn different behaviours. For example, about 40 years ago blue tits learnt to attack bottles of milk on the doorstep,and the behaviour spread quickly. But now there are fewer doorstep deliveries, and fewer deliveries of full fat milk, and the behaviour seems to have died out. Meanwhile, ground feeding birds like dunnocks have started to use bird feeders ...
So maybe your current generation of birds have re-learnt to feed on peanuts?
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