Guest 977- Registered: 27 Jun 2013
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RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend, just takes an hour and can submit your results online so no cost.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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They are all waiting for me out there so off out to feed them,please feel free to come over anytime and take photos and put them on the forum,always hot drinks going in the bunker.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Over the past few weeks my feeders end up on the ground at regular intervals which I put down to excessively strong winds that we have been experiencing lately. Yesterday morning I looked out and found the reason- a sea gull went into the tree shook the branches that held the feeders violently, watched them fall then with the help of two magpies demolish the contents.
Not putting them out anymore which is a pity as there were quite a few songbirds that visited winter and summer.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Treat yourself to one of those ornamental metal holders that go in the ground, the seagulls can not land on them, I got mine from Argos.
My problem at the moment are the b****y pigeons perched on the upstairs window sill waiting for for the top-ups they are leaving far too many droppings, that is except for one which seems to have developed a taste for the meal-worms that I put out.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Not a good idea Jan as the whole idea was to attract birds without putting them at risk. The current feeders were strategically placed on branches that would not take a cat's weight, on the ground my cat would go into a feeding frenzy.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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My cat sits underneath the ornamental feeder watching the birds in hope one will be daft enough to fall into his mouth, most of the birds now ignore him knowing he can't reach them.
This is like mine
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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This was taken two days after being filled the brim, on the downside the cat managed to catch a sparrow and just left two small bones and a beak.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Another daft sparrow met its end a few minutes ago, putting some towels on the the line and noticed the cat sitting next to a prostate bird that was still breathing. Tried to grab the sparrow and drown to save any more pain she was too quick and had it away on her paws.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Since the temperature started do drop visitors have been devouring the three feeders but 2 Magpies and a Robin prefer the mealworm coconut feeder. Just putting out a new one which will be the 4th in the last month.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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I feed them two times a day you can buy a very big bag of seeds for £ 3.99 and the same size of peanuts for £13.99 up at B&M that will last some weeks and 50 fat balls £3.99 and I must feed 30 of more birds,and about doz/Squirrels,doves to
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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My garden birds seem to have gone mostly AWOL over the last few weeks with the feeder levels going down very slowly. One regular customer, a Magpie, appears to be building a giant nest in an apple tree two gardens away from me. This has always been home to a pair of Collared Doves all the time I have lived here but with the size of the twigs being carried it looks like the bird is building a tree house.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I have had to adapt my feeder.
The B sea gulls have started nesting on the roof nearly opposite and have learnt I put tasty morsels out, the B things stood on the low wall underneath and jumped up hitting the dish so the food bounces out. Therefore I moved the dish up higher out of reach, now I am besieged by B pigeons who can now reach the feeders who sit on the window sills sh***ing everywhere in-between stuffing themselves. I just wish they would move back to the Asda area either that or I will soon have to stop putting food out for the other birds.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I had that same problem with a Sea Gull but moving the feeder up a branch solved the problem. Never get Pigeons in my part of town than the odd pair of Wood Pigeons who are most welcome as they simply scoff seed off of the grass that has fallen from a feeder.