Khandro

Feeding garden birds.

Is it advisable to continue feeding birds throughout the Summer months? At the end of the winter season I bought a job-lot of bird food - nuts, fatballs and seeds etc. and have continued feeding them, I have lots of trees and the garden is very bird-populated which I enjoy, but I am beginning to be concerned that this year's new generation of tits and sparrows see this as their only option. Should I continue, or try to wean them off my food in order that they can gain some Independence and search for more 'natural' food supplies?

09:34 Sun 22nd Jul 2012

Blue Bird Egg Looks like Lady may have flown

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woofgang

Now you have started you should carry on...stopping will be a human induced famine as the bird population will be adjusted to use the available food including what you supply. The RSPB now suggest feeding all year.

SlackAlice

I do feed in the summer but reduce the amount I feed. Some days I leave the feeders empty to encourage them to forage. The only thing I always supply is water for drinking/washing.

Tilly2

I feed the birds all year round and it costs a fortune. I hate it when the feral pigeons come and steal all the seed. They are a real pest but there is not much I can do about it.

Khandro

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Thanks to all. I have plenty of food left, so I'll keep on going, which will be a good news to my feathered friends. No pigeons here, but a spotted woodpecker sometimes zooms in and takes over and is very acrobatic, everyone has to wait until he's finished for fear of a jab from that beak,- which I would fear myself.