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Niger feeder recommendation
"Janet" wrote in message ... In article , damduck- says... I "refill" some well pecked teasels with a sprinkling of Nyger seed. Finches seem to like it. How do you get the seeds to stick/stay in? (I've got some teazel skeletons in the garden). Janet I wonder if it is feasible for you to coat the teasels with some olive oil applied by rubbing an oily hand oer the skeletons. The nyger seed should stick to that. Bill |
Niger feeder recommendation
Bill Grey wrote:
I wonder if it is feasible for you to coat the teasels with some olive oil applied by rubbing an oily hand oer the skeletons. The nyger seed should stick to that. Bill Even better might be a cook's oil-spray basting device... Mike. -- If reply address is (invalid), remove spurious "@" and substitute "plus" for +. |
Niger feeder recommendation
"Mike Coon" wrote in message ... Bill Grey wrote: I wonder if it is feasible for you to coat the teasels with some olive oil applied by rubbing an oily hand oer the skeletons. The nyger seed should stick to that. Bill Even better might be a cook's oil-spray basting device... Mike. -- If reply address is (invalid), remove spurious "@" and substitute "plus" for +. Certainly less messy Bill |
Niger feeder recommendation
On 19/01/2013 15:48, Bill Grey wrote:
"Mike Coon" wrote in message ... Bill Grey wrote: I wonder if it is feasible for you to coat the teasels with some olive oil applied by rubbing an oily hand oer the skeletons. The nyger seed should stick to that. Bill Even better might be a cook's oil-spray basting device... Mike. -- If reply address is (invalid), remove spurious "@" and substitute "plus" for +. Certainly less messy Bill Just mix the seed with a little melted lard and work that into the teasel heads. |
Niger feeder recommendation
"David Hill" wrote in message ... On 19/01/2013 15:48, Bill Grey wrote: "Mike Coon" wrote in message ... Bill Grey wrote: I wonder if it is feasible for you to coat the teasels with some olive oil applied by rubbing an oily hand oer the skeletons. The nyger seed should stick to that. Bill Even better might be a cook's oil-spray basting device... Mike. -- If reply address is (invalid), remove spurious "@" and substitute "plus" for +. Certainly less messy Bill Just mix the seed with a little melted lard and work that into the teasel heads. I would have thought nyger seed are too fine for this sort of trreatment, but it is one way of dealing with the task. Bill |
Niger feeder recommendation
"Anne Burgess" wrote in message ... Good luck with your Niger/Nyger seed feeder I haven't seen a single finch on mine - total waste of money. Bill It took quite a while with mine before the Goldfinches found it. Now they're here in large numbers every day, and other birds also eat the Nyjer. Anne I never had much luck with nyger. I carry on with canary seed/sunflower hearts 50/50 mix. Very popular with all tits and finches. I have a thingie that chops up peanuts - it's a chilli cutter but it makes peanuts into crumbs for the robins and the blackbirds like them too along with sultanas. Robins will never starve here, they get into my chicken run and eat the layers pellets. |
Niger feeder recommendation
On 19/01/2013 09:50, kay wrote:
'Pam Moore[_2_ Wrote: ;976930'] I also bought some niger seed, filled the feeder and waited.......... After a week the feeder was still full. I emptied the seed out into a bag to give to a friend who does have finches and refilled the tube with seed mix. I looked up niger seed to see what it would grow into and it is a boring coltsfoot/dandelion-looking type of flower. I wasted my money! You were far too impatient! Three weeks is a more sensible time to allow for a goldfinch who doesn't normally visit your garden to stray off route, pluck up courage to investigate something that doesn't look like his normal source of food, and then incorporate it into his regular route. It took my finches a couple of weeks, and they were visiting regularly for the lavender. Now they are part of the garden furniture - it's difficult to be in the garden without seeing them.[/i][/color] Spot on. They are somewhat shy little birds who are wary of anything new at first. But once one (and it only takes one...) has found the feeder it will come back and will attract others. We had 6 fighting to get on our 2-station feeder in the front garden a couple of days ago. They were generally ignoring the feeder in the back garden, but occasionally that gets a couple of goldfinches. Occasionally the odd sparrow or blue tit will visit the niger feeders, but they soon lose interest. -- Jeff |
Niger feeder recommendation
"Jeff Layman" wrote in message ... On 19/01/2013 09:50, kay wrote: 'Pam Moore[_2_ Wrote: ;976930'] I also bought some niger seed, filled the feeder and waited.......... After a week the feeder was still full. I emptied the seed out into a bag to give to a friend who does have finches and refilled the tube with seed mix. I looked up niger seed to see what it would grow into and it is a boring coltsfoot/dandelion-looking type of flower. I wasted my money! You were far too impatient! Three weeks is a more sensible time to allow for a goldfinch who doesn't normally visit your garden to stray off route, pluck up courage to investigate something that doesn't look like his normal source of food, and then incorporate it into his regular route. It took my finches a couple of weeks, and they were visiting regularly for the lavender. Now they are part of the garden furniture - it's difficult to be in the garden without seeing them. Spot on. They are somewhat shy little birds who are wary of anything new at first. But once one (and it only takes one...) has found the feeder it will come back and will attract others. We had 6 fighting to get on our 2-station feeder in the front garden a couple of days ago. They were generally ignoring the feeder in the back garden, but occasionally that gets a couple of goldfinches. Occasionally the odd sparrow or blue tit will visit the niger feeders, but they soon lose interest. -- Jeff[/i][/color] Shy? I'll agree it took a while for the goldfinches to discover my niger. Even then they were irregular visitors but last year I started using sunflower seed as well and now they are regular visitors using both the niger and sunflower feeders. But shy? I don't think so. Stolid is a word I'd use. They take up residence of a perch of a feeder and get stuck in, stop for a rest, carry on, have another rest, etc. All this time other small birds are appearing and trying to take up residence. A lot of the time the goldfinches simply ignore the intruders, occasionally they stretch a wing to persuade another bird to back off. They only retreat when a starling appears. The local woodpecker has a similar approach - gets stuck into the peanuts and won't allow anyone else on "his" feeder. |
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Long tailed tits are even tamer - it's easy to find yourself in the middle of a flock, with the nearest birds only 3-4 ft away. |
Niger feeder recommendation
rbel wrote in message ... On 18 Jan 2013 14:03:32 GMT, "David.WE.Roberts" wrote: Having read recommendations to use Niger seed I have just bought some. The seed is so fine I doubt it will stay in my cheap and cheerful vertical plastic tube. I can see specialist Niger feeders on line. Any recommendations? If you know that you have Goldfinches in the area then go for Droll Yankee, if not I suggest that you buy a cheaper, perhaps plastic, feeder to start with and when it wears out replace it with a Droll Yankee. -- rbel ?? What is a Droll Yankee? |
Niger feeder recommendation
"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... rbel wrote in message ... On 18 Jan 2013 14:03:32 GMT, "David.WE.Roberts" wrote: Having read recommendations to use Niger seed I have just bought some. The seed is so fine I doubt it will stay in my cheap and cheerful vertical plastic tube. I can see specialist Niger feeders on line. Any recommendations? If you know that you have Goldfinches in the area then go for Droll Yankee, if not I suggest that you buy a cheaper, perhaps plastic, feeder to start with and when it wears out replace it with a Droll Yankee. -- rbel ?? What is a Droll Yankee? they make bird feeders http://www.drollyankees.com/ |
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