Topic: Bird Feeding Station

[Georgie]

Starlings, Sparrows, Blue Tits, Blackbirds and a Robin mainly, Lorna.  I've seen the odd Chaffinch, Wagtail and Goldfinch too but not on a regular basis.  I wish I could attract Thrushes but I've never seen one in this garden. 

Shame about the Squabs but beauty is in the eye of the beholder eh?   ;D

G x

[lorna]

Really envious of the Blue Tits and Robin. I have only ever seen one Blue Tit in my garden and it was a real beauty but unfortunately didn't hang around :'( :'(

[Georgie]

Okay to add to my wood pigeons and starlings (which I know a lot of people don't like) guess who came visiting today?  Yep, two magpies.  I've never known them to land in the garden before (although I often see them flying around) but they didn't stay around long enough to get a photo.

G x

[Toadspawn]

Hi Georgie
Magpies, Jackdaws, Jays, Wood Pigeons a and Collared Doves have been visiting my garden virtually every day for months along with about 20 other species of small birds.

[Georgie]

How lucky you are, Toadspawn, I've never seen a Jay. 

G x

[Brogusblue]

Hello Georgie and everyone

I have a bird feeding station in the front garden next to my disabled mum's bedroom window so she can look at the birds feeding we have a few regulars to feed a family of Blue Tits, Great Tits, Collared Doves, Starlings, Black Birds and sometimes a Chaffinch and a Greenfinch.

The Blue Tits and Robins are my favorites i have a rosa rugosa hedge in my front garden and i see them flying around and feeding.

I recently added some currants that i had spare in the seed mix and some suet pellets from wilcos and the within 5 mins the table was busy with birds the only problem that scared them off was 1 of neighbours has 16+ cats and one of them caught a large piegon  ::). Apart from that we have a steady flow to the feed during the day nice to see i have noticed that our birds like the feed in nets rather that the clear box or tube feeders

Cheers
Brogusblue

[Georgie]

Hi BB.   :)

I bet your Mum gets a great deal of enjoyment watching all those birds.  But a word of advice if I may?  Food in nets can be dangerous because birds can get their claws trapped and injure themselves.  I always take the fat balls out of the nets and drop them into a metal holder and the birds love them. 

G x

[Brogusblue]

Hello Georgie

Thanks for the advice i will keep i eye out i would like that to happen, i am always looking for feeders i have tried the metal tube and the plastic square feeders but they seem to scare the birds off since i have but the netted feeders from wilcos i have no problems to date.

I must have picky birds i have put fat balls and 1/2 coconuts and they get wasted my birds seem to like seed or mealworms or a little fruit my friend brought some millet for a joke and attached it to pole and the birds where enjoying that as well.

Cheers
Brogusblue