Feed the Birds

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Re: Feed the Birds

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We had a mouse on top of our feeder at the weekend. :shock: Do they eat peanuts?
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Re: Feed the Birds

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Oh yes. We had a peanut feeder on a fence hanging from a bracket and the acrobatics of the mice eating the nuts was amazing to watch.
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Re: Feed the Birds

Post: # 220109Post sleepyowl »

I have put down a sunflower head & some bread but have to be careful as we have cats
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Re: Feed the Birds

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We have the usual suspects - Silas the arsey robin who doesn't want anything else sharing the garden (even us); bluetits; great tits (called Margo and Gerry), Coaltits (Tom and Barbara), a wee wren who keeps getting chased away by Silas (and then just sits on a flowerpot screaming at him) and a few blackbirds - it seems we have two males trying to eye up the same female. The front hedge is full of sparrows, but they never venture round the back (it's a mixed hedge with berberis and brambles, so they're pretty happy and cat-safe in there). Wood pigeons, collared doves, a mistle thrush and a couple of hundred starlings and magpies.

We did have a bullfinch that liked our front hedge, and last year we had chaffinchs and goldfinches at the feeders but no luck so far this year, despite having nyger seed and sunflower hearts out but I do know they are in the vicinity; as are redwings and fieldfares.

Amazed on Saturday to glance out of the window and see a Greater Spotted Woodpecker hanging on to my Forsythia as though its life depended on it.....
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Re: Feed the Birds

Post: # 220240Post sleepyowl »

We get house sparrows sparrows, long tailed tits, blue tits, robin, blackbirds, woodpigeons, starlings, magpies, collared doves, goldfinches, a sparrowhawk & on rare occasions a tawny owl
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