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Bird houses, feeders and food - which ones to buy?
"JakeD" wrote I have now tried several kinds of bird-feed, including fat balls, peanits and various seeds, all hung in net bags outside my bedroom window, so I can see what's eating what. The only birds that ever come for a snack are great tits! (Black head, yellow breast.) They only eat the peanuts and some large seeds that look something like pumpkin seeds. I wish I knew what would appeal to some of the other birds in the garden. JD Just in time for the RSPB "Feed the Birds Day" - 27-10-07 :~)))) http://www.rspb.org.uk/feedthebirds/index.asp Also has 'what to feed' http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpin...ding/index.asp Somewhat irrelevant American site - but it has wonderful pictures of hummingbirds :~) http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/Abo.../BirdFoods.htm jenny |
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Bird houses, feeders and food - which ones to buy?
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writes "JakeD" wrote I have now tried several kinds of bird-feed, including fat balls, peanits and various seeds, all hung in net bags outside my bedroom window, so I can see what's eating what. The only birds that ever come for a snack are great tits! (Black head, yellow breast.) They only eat the peanuts and some large seeds that look something like pumpkin seeds. I wish I knew what would appeal to some of the other birds in the garden. JD Just in time for the RSPB "Feed the Birds Day" - 27-10-07 :~)))) http://www.rspb.org.uk/feedthebirds/index.asp Also has 'what to feed' http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpin...ding/index.asp Somewhat irrelevant American site - but it has wonderful pictures of hummingbirds :~) http://www.birds.cornell.edu/pfw/Abo.../BirdFoods.htm jenny The downside of feeding birds, though, is that they come to rely on it, and while they are fine in summer and autumn, I feel really bad about going away in winter and early spring, thinking about all those empty little stomachs. We have also been adopted by a flock of doves. The flock has resided four doors from us for some 30 years, but the dovecot-maker who was raising them presumably fed them. Recently he has had health issues, and also I imagine the dovecote business is suffering due to bird flu, so we have been discovered by two dozen hungry doves, from various sides of the blanket (most of them white, but some interesting spotty variants, or pigeon in front, dove in back. The downside to the variation is that those can be recognised, and invariably they are the ones taken by the sparrow hawk...). Unfortunately this means that even though we buy seed etc. in huge bags, it is impossible to feed the ground feeders, as every grain is immediately scoffed by doves. -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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Bird houses, feeders and food - which ones to buy?
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:55:37 +0100, Klara wrote
(in article ): snip sparrow hawk...). Unfortunately this means that even though we buy seed etc. in huge bags, it is impossible to feed the ground feeders, as every grain is immediately scoffed by doves. We have a large cage on the ground (from a local metalwork place) in which we put food for the ground feeding birds. Keeps off pigeons, magpies, squirrels, and cats! It's like a heavy bottomless box with mesh sides, if you can imagine what I mean. -- Sally in Shropshire, UK Burne-Jones/William Morris window in Shropshire church with conservation churchyard: http://www.whitton-stmarys.org.uk |
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Bird houses, feeders and food - which ones to buy?
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:36:28 +0200, "JennyC"
wrote: Just in time for the RSPB "Feed the Birds Day" - 27-10-07 :~)))) http://www.rspb.org.uk/feedthebirds/index.asp Also has 'what to feed' http://www.rspb.org.uk/advice/helpin...ding/index.asp Ah - thank you! What an appropriate and useful site! Looks like it has the answers! Funny; I'm an RSPB member, but I had not seen that site before... JD |
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I find this site useful for bird feeding supplies and advice. http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinm...denbird.com%2F Best of luck, David |
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