On 05/03/2013 22:52, Bob Hobden wrote:
"The Original Jake" wrote ...

Your birds actually eat peanuts? We have given up putting them out as
they were never eaten and always ended up being thrown away because they
went mouldy. Since we started putting out sunflower seed hearts the
goldfinches have abandoned the nijer seed so that too will be off the
menu soon.

I originally put nijer seeds out for the Goldfinches and they did used
to eat them, but then I decided to try some sunflower hearts at the same
time and the nijer was abandoned.

Pretty much everything likes the SFH, even the robins use the feeder now!

Every now and then I try a different type of mixed seed but it doesn't
get eaten in feeders, so I end up dumping it on the bird table where it
eventually gets guzzled by the less fussy larger birds.

The only other thing I put out are coconut halves, which is always
popular with tits, robins and woodpeckers.