Feeding The Birds.

[Georgiesmum]

Do you feed the birds every day? What do you usually put out? I buy fat balls and mealworms but I also put out scraps.x

[malagabob]

I buy 12kg sacks of peanuts. Works out Much cheaper than buying 1kg bags. Also fat balls. Niger seed. Mixed seed. Mealworm. A cut apple, blackbirds like them. Bread isn’t reccommended.

[Prudie]

I have a mixed seed feeder and also put out kitchen scraps regularly but the things I have to offer several times a day when I'm home are suet pellets. They go like wild fire.

[woofgang]

suet pellets only here. I put out very small amounts in hanging cages and add more when they are taken. I always try and make sure none is left overnight as it brings rats and mice without fail

[Buenchico]

I'd like to offer food to birds, thus enticing them into my garden, but all I'd be indirectly doing is feeding my three cats!

[alavahalf]

You can geed the birds chris ...
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[alavahalf]

Even feed !

[smurfchops]

Fat, bacon rind, cheese, sultanas, bread soaked in milk, almost everything we would otherwise throw in the bin food wise! And of course unsalted bird food like peanuts. We get blue tits, nuthatches, crows, magpies, even the odd woodpecker. No sparrows now.

[gingejbee]

Stopped putting out feed recently, because I object to feeding starlings...they take over the place and nothing else gets a chance.

[smurfchops]

Oh and robins and blackbirds!

[AuntPollyGrey]

I have a 'pet' crow. He ges all our scraps plus any cat food our picky cats leave. He follows me up the road' crawing' when he sees me and sits in the trees outside the barn until I put something out for him. I tried mealworms but he left them - I think he prefers chicken carcasses and bacon fat.

[burlyshirley]

Yes, I feed the birds every day. I put out dried mealworms and bread and have coconut feeders with suet in and nut feeders hanging from the bushes. I attract blackbirds, blue, great and long tailed tits and I used to have a small flock of sparrows, but they haven't been for many weeks now and I'm beginning to think they are not coming back, sadly.

[burlyshirley]

And I forgot, I have a lone robin too.

[AuntPollyGrey]

We have a lovely little robin that pinches some of the crows food. Its as fat as butter lol!

[ladybirder]

Ginge please please please feed your Starlings. They continue to decline and are now on the Red List.
People say they are greedy, no, they are just hungry.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/starling/population-trends-conservation/

[burlyshirley]

OMG I always chase starlings away (or shebsters as I call them) because they are so greedy and try to take everything, but what's the answer, if they get all the food what then becomes of the other birds who want to feed as well, when it's all gone ? A tricky one, but I feel bad now.

[Patsy33]

I feed the birds with any scraps I think they might like. I throw it up high on garage food, as I have a cat. He's too fat to jump up on garage roof.

[Patsy33]

^^^^^^
Roof!

[ladybirder]

Shirley you can buy feeders that allow only the smaller birds to access the food. If you used both, then the Starlings could have their own feeder. Have a look here.

https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/bird-feeders/

[DTCwordfan]

Georgiesmum's garden birds after all those fat balls et al...

https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-000425564127-9x9lm0-t500x500.jpg

[burlyshirley]

Thanks lb, the cage seed feeder looks like a good buy, I'll get one. The shebsters also feed from the half coconuts with suet in, maybe I can pop them into a cage feeder as well. The main problem is them hoovering up all the dried mealworms while the blackbirds try to get a look in. I chase them away so the blackbirds can get some !