howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Icy weather on the horizon and our feathered friends will be looking for drinking water as well as food.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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The squirrel has been busy in our garden pinching the bird seed, I expect he is a bit miffed as we have moved the peanut feeder much nearer the house.
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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At one point today we had 10 doves, 7 starlings, 1 sparrow and a fat wood pigeon in stuffing their faces.
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we had a jay in our garden eating apple lol
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I was inundated with a mix of birds up until 2 weeks ago now all 3 feeders are full to the brim with no takers plus water bowls refreshed every day.
Can't blame the cat as everything is strategically placed to thwart her hunting instincts.
Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
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We have four feeders, black sunflower seeds, mixed seed, fatballs and peanuts, and each is filled every other day, except the peanuts which last about a week. Tits are our regular diners, sparrows, dunnocks, two Robins, Jays (same birds as yours Heike) the odd Starling, ringneck and woodpecker. We get our feed from the pound shop and spend about £5 a week on keeping the little chaps happy. Sir Oliver Four-Paws, the cat from whom we rent our home is a fair weather cat, he sleeps in the winter and leaves the birds alone, we think he may wake up again in March.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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The mixed seed feeders at the front of the house have been in inundated all summer with the local sparrows but since a neighbour refilled her feeders I hardly see them, fickle things.
I suspect something similar has happened to your missing birds Howard.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The Riverside centre has finally replenished some of their feeders, the birds have finally returned to my garden this morning.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Had to replenish the water bowls this morning as they were iced over and that brought them flocking and have just refilled them again.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Put fresh water out this morning, as soon as I got back looked out of the kitchen window between 6 to 8 birds including a robin were clustered around the bowls.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I had to break the thin ice yesterday in my birdbath, it was even thicker this morning.
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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We have a varied collection of feeders in our garden, with different types of nuts and seeds, the bluetits seem to favour black sunflower seeds which they consume with relish. Robins favour the half coconut shells. However, all the birds ignore totally the fat balls, any ideas?
Terry
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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I found the birds only ate the fat balls when everything else had gone so I have stopped buying them. All the birds seem to like the meal worms I now put out instead, the starlings love them.
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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All wild life even the four leg ones get well looked after in my garden
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I have one all seasons seed mixture in one feeder and only sparrows use it and two fat ball feeders that need to be replenished regularly.
Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
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Terry, re post 13 - fatballs. We buy ours in a tub of 50 from the poundland shop near Morrisons. Our holder takes 5 at a time and needs refilling every other day, mixed seed and sunflower feeders which eack hold about a pint are filled daily, peanuts are our slowest food being filled no more then once a week. All our feeders are in constant use from dawn to dusk. We get all our other food from the poundshop, so you may like to try them out.
Terry Nunn- Location: London Road, Dover
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We've tried various fatballs Phil, the birds just ignore them. Don't think I'll risk a tub of 50! As with Jan the favourite seems to be mealworms with most birds although as I said the bluetits go for the sunflower seeds.
Terry
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I used to put dried mealworm out but the bigger birds like magpies and jackdaws drove away the smaller ones.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Reading what the various birds will eat and not eat at their respective feeders it seems they can be just as awkward and fussy as us humans.
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