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Originally Posted by Sacha[_4_]
Thinking of this, I remembered my grandparents hanging out half
coconuts for birds and decided to try it here. The birds weren't even
faintly interested, so now I realise that my memory as a 4 or 5 year
old was a bit skewed. No doubt the the grandparents ate the coconut
and did just what Bill has suggested! Bit slow of me but I got there
in the end!
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No, we used to hang out coconuts - the tits loved the coconut flesh. But better foods are now available - no tit would bother with coconut when more nutritious fat balls are around.
And there may be a learning element - remember when tits learned to peck the tops of milk bottles, and the knowledge spread very quickly through the entire tit population? Then full fat milk was replaced by half fat, and the number of people having doorstep deliveries declined, and I understand that tits no longer go for milk bottles even if there is full fat milk lurking under the top. Maybe they no longer bother with any coconut that hasn't been re-stuffed with beef suet?
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