Garden birds....what do you feed yours?
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Minel said:
bloody hell, touchy mods today? Was only a nice fully clothed girl in a garden pic.... I've read worse around here with all sorts of crude remarks, near on nudity pics and so on!
Suggest you don't argue with "that particular" Mod, http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?mem...Not so much of content but as to how childish can one get? would be my guess as to the reason it got binned.
sunflower hearts in the feeders,good quality mixed seed on the floor for the ground feeders,also throw out live meal worms,soaked currants/sultanas, fat balls in feeders,
we have maybe 100+ birds feeding at any one time, including- blue tits, great tits, chaffinch,coal tits, woodpeckers,pheasants,starlings,yellowhammers,reed buntings,bullfinch,redpolls,dunnocks,goldfinches,fieldfares,robin,wren
and the odd grey squirrel which one of the cats takes great delight in catching and leaving on the doorstep for us.
we have maybe 100+ birds feeding at any one time, including- blue tits, great tits, chaffinch,coal tits, woodpeckers,pheasants,starlings,yellowhammers,reed buntings,bullfinch,redpolls,dunnocks,goldfinches,fieldfares,robin,wren
and the odd grey squirrel which one of the cats takes great delight in catching and leaving on the doorstep for us.
Using about eight types of feeders and tables I put out premium mixed seed, niger, sunflower seeds, sunflower hearts, mealworms, peanuts, fat balls, fat blocks mixed with seed/fruit/bugs, robin mix, meat offcuts, bacon rind, bread, cake, doner kebabs, foie gras, staked-out heretics (for the crows, they love fresh eyeballs).*
- some of these may have been made up.
mrmaggit said:
I buy our lot peanuts in 20kg bags, but Pets at Home have just put them up to £36.99 which I'm buggered if I'm paying.
Do you mind letting me know how much you sell yours for?
I'm trying to find a local supplier (Nottingham) if anybody can point me in the right direction?
That will be around the going rate now, we sell 20kg for £33.00 inc vat. A garden center or a farm suppilers would be the best place to go.Do you mind letting me know how much you sell yours for?
I'm trying to find a local supplier (Nottingham) if anybody can point me in the right direction?
Just a polite note to those of you who do feed the birds...
Always remember that its not just birds you are enviting into your garden, rats, mice and the odd squirrel, squirrels not to worried about, but the rats and mice may decide to stay and they like to nest close to a haelthy food source. Also alsway keep your bird feed stored in plastic sealed containers up off the floor.
A lot of rodent rodent problems in the home are started by feeding birds etc... I would suggest that all bird feeding is done as far away from your house as possible.
Always remember that its not just birds you are enviting into your garden, rats, mice and the odd squirrel, squirrels not to worried about, but the rats and mice may decide to stay and they like to nest close to a haelthy food source. Also alsway keep your bird feed stored in plastic sealed containers up off the floor.
A lot of rodent rodent problems in the home are started by feeding birds etc... I would suggest that all bird feeding is done as far away from your house as possible.
redleader1 said:
Just a polite note to those of you who do feed the birds...
Always remember that its not just birds you are enviting into your garden, rats, mice and the odd squirrel, squirrels not to worried about, but the rats and mice may decide to stay and they like to nest close to a haelthy food source. Also alsway keep your bird feed stored in plastic sealed containers up off the floor.
A lot of rodent rodent problems in the home are started by feeding birds etc... I would suggest that all bird feeding is done as far away from your house as possible.
Good points, all our feeders are away from the house, but we also have three cats and are on a regular fox patrol, so we have a number of mice and rat "catchers" on duty. Always remember that its not just birds you are enviting into your garden, rats, mice and the odd squirrel, squirrels not to worried about, but the rats and mice may decide to stay and they like to nest close to a haelthy food source. Also alsway keep your bird feed stored in plastic sealed containers up off the floor.
A lot of rodent rodent problems in the home are started by feeding birds etc... I would suggest that all bird feeding is done as far away from your house as possible.
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