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Peanuts for Birds
"trevor.appleton" wrote in message
... Back in September my bird feeders were covered in greenfinches, colat tits, blue and great tits, the odd tree sparrow too. In October they suddenly stopped coming so I threw the peanuts away and put up fresh - they returned. A few weeks ago I spent 20 quid on a large sack of peanuts, and guess what, yes they've deserted me. It it likely to be the peanuts (they are also ignoring the black sunflower seeds). I've noticed the peanuts are all slightly pecked along the full length of the feeders. Don't you have squirrels too? They nibble along the whole length of the peanut tube. Saw one with a mouthful of grass yesterday, obviously off to do a bit of dray building. Yesterday I had at least 20 house sparrows on, around and beneath both peanut and black sunflower seed feeders. Today at one stage I had about 12-15 starlings after the peanuts. Also one female greater spotted woodpecker enjoying the peanuts and a couple of nuthatches. Every now and then something spooks them and they all disappear, including the squirrels. I would put your problem down to either better pickings elsewhere or something scaring them away. -- Terry Harper http://www.terry.harper.btinternet.co.uk/ |
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