Home made bird feed
 

Sometime ago, feb/mar I think, someone recommended mixing your own bird
seed feed, giving the idea ingredients. I carefully stored this post
away for future reference, but of course now I want it, I can not find
it. I think becuase as I was away duiring April, I unsubscribed from the
newsgroup, and Gravity dleted everything!

Has any one kept it, or have their own ideas?

Thanks


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Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

Home made bird feed
 

On May 31, 8:57*pm, Roger Tonkin wrote:
Sometime ago, feb/mar I think, someone recommended mixing your own bird
seed feed, giving the idea ingredients. I carefully stored this post
away for future reference, but of course now I want it, I can not find
it. I think becuase as I was away duiring April, I unsubscribed from the
newsgroup, and Gravity dleted everything!

Has any one kept it, or have their own ideas?

Thanks

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

I take one loaf of Tesco value brown bread, blend it to breacrumbs,
I pack of dripping,
Tesco Value oatmeal.
2 mugs of wild bird seed, you can add more small seed if required.

Blend the bread to breacrumbs, put it into a bowl, cut the dripping
into slices, and put about half of it on top of the breadcrumbs, cover
with some oats.
Cover the bowl and heat in the microwave for 6 mins.
Remove from oven and mix it together,
Put the rest of the dripping slices on top of the mix and add more
oats, cover and heat for another 6 mins.
Remove from oven and mix again, add a mug of seed and mix, add the
next mug of seesd and mix again,
I use 2 litre pop bottles with the top cut off at an angle as moulds
(the wife only drinks suggar free pop so we have lots of bottles
around).
Spoon the mix into 2 bottles, pack down hard with the end of a rooling
pin or similar, put in the rest of the mix and pack down again, I then
press down around the edge with the back of a tablespoon, this gives a
slight dome to the mix and stops so much breaking off when you remove
from the mould.
Place somewhere cool for a few hours (overnight).
To remove I slice down each side of the bottle.
I have made holders from wire netting cut to fit around a pop bottle,
these hang inside 2 hanging baskets which I hang on edge, using 2 of
the chains to hold the baskets up and the 3rd to hold the feed.
The smaller birds and the great spotted woodpecker get inside to feed
and blackbirds collared doves ets feed on the seed that the othere
drop.
http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/f...4u2/Feeder.jpg
Hope that helps, if you need more pics I can take some.

Home made bird feed
 

"Roger Tonkin" wrote in message
...
Sometime ago, feb/mar I think, someone recommended mixing your own bird
seed feed, giving the idea ingredients. I carefully stored this post
away for future reference, but of course now I want it, I can not find
it. I think becuase as I was away duiring April, I unsubscribed from the
newsgroup, and Gravity dleted everything!

Has any one kept it, or have their own ideas?


For a seed feeder I use 50% sunflower hearts, 50% canary mix, all shaken up
together and kept in one of those big old sweet jars. It's spectacularly
successful.
All bought from Wilkinson's.