FabSwingers.com forum: feeding our feathered friends

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Hello chaps , its a bumming chilly morning and tonight is going to be jolly Baltic.

So do you feed the garden birds? I know its nit a very fab subject lol

I get great pleasure from watching the birds I the garden, just a country boy.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Get a window feeder.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

My dad feeds the birds who in turn feed my cats....The circle of life is a wonderful thing haha

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By *uggarbunnyWoman
over a year ago

Doncaster

I do. The blackbirds love raisins

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Get a window feeder.

Better still get a nesting box with web cam :-0

Yes we do, why waste bread

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"My dad feeds the birds who in turn feed my cats....The circle of life is a wonderful thing haha"

Ha ha dont tell Disney they will make an animated film about it lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Either suet or black oil bird seeds

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By *ee VianteWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in North Norfolk

At times when it's difficult for them to find food, (such as when the weather is dry and the ground is hard), or when they need more energy and may struggle to find enough food, (e.g. when they have chicks or when it's very cold).

I should fill up my feeder actually. Thank you for the reminder.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

Use the fat from your Sunday roasts to make fat balls. The birds love them and it's high energy food to help them in the cold weather.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Fat balls and wild bird mix and breads all sorts really. I have this bird table outside my kitchen and have things hanging from it .. and I get loads of different birds its lovely to see .

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

I have a number of feeding stations around both front and rear gardens and depending on the time of the year and temperature get a good range of birds visiting. I get the usual blue tits, great tits, robins, sparrows and blackbirds. I also have spotted woodpeckers and the very occasional green woodpecker. When the temperature drops, I get yellow hammers coming in from the chalk fields and reed buntings from the river. My favourite feeding station is in an apple tree and is a hanging flat table and a small seed feeder which at this time of the year gets emptied in 24 hours. I try to feed all year round as I`ve seen the young woodpeckers sitting in the trees next door waiting for Mum and Dad to bring them food!

My very favourite visitors are the Lon Tailed Tits which always seem to visit mob handed and "graze" all the gardens in the road in sequence!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I have a number of feeding stations around both front and rear gardens and depending on the time of the year and temperature get a good range of birds visiting. I get the usual blue tits, great tits, robins, sparrows and blackbirds. I also have spotted woodpeckers and the very occasional green woodpecker. When the temperature drops, I get yellow hammers coming in from the chalk fields and reed buntings from the river. My favourite feeding station is in an apple tree and is a hanging flat table and a small seed feeder which at this time of the year gets emptied in 24 hours. I try to feed all year round as I`ve seen the young woodpeckers sitting in the trees next door waiting for Mum and Dad to bring them food!

My very favourite visitors are the Lon Tailed Tits which always seem to visit mob handed and "graze" all the gardens in the road in sequence!"
yes I have the woodpeckers here too a family love to see them and do all the time. I love them small tits I get loads of different things as live right in the country next to the river so kingfishes I love to see them playing . One thing I get is moorhens too they jump on the table after stuff so I have lots of hanging feeders too I get doves had 6 on there friday .. so far the swans and ducks not got on there . lol

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By *semymouth_2025Man
over a year ago

swanwick, Alfreton

i have a feeding station in garden, on thurs i put out 8 fatballs and now (sun) they're gone

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My aftershave is made from breadcrumbs. The birds love it

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By *B9 QueenWoman
over a year ago

Over the rainbow, under the bridge

"Hello chaps , its a bumming chilly morning and tonight is going to be jolly Baltic.

So do you feed the garden birds? I know its nit a very fab subject lol

I get great pleasure from watching the birds I the garden, just a country boy.

I've just put some out actually. Suet pellets. And there's a suet cake with different seeds already hanging out. They seem to love it. I've had wood pigeons, blackbirds, magpies so far this morning.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My aftershave is made from breadcrumbs. The birds love it

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yes I bet they love to nibble on your bits . lol

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By *rsIdiotWoman
over a year ago

Bedworth

I always had reservations about encouraging too many birds, one of my cats is a pretty good hunter.

When I moved in with my other half I voiced those reservations as he has always fed the birds. Our decision was to keep feeding and monitor Freddies's hunting activities. If he got out of hand we would stop.

Well, we only get the occasional 'gift' from him, the birds keep out of the way when the kitties are outside and we have lots of happy, well fed feathered visitors

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By *onbons_xxMan
over a year ago

Bolton

I feed the ducks in the local park

as I don't have a garden, so not sure that counts, but I still like doing that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"My aftershave is made from breadcrumbs. The birds love it

yes I bet they love to nibble on your bits . lol

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can't beat a bit of bits nibbling

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We have bird feeders ,bird bath etc, had a pair of Robins earlier and with a slight scattering of snow the garden looks lovely

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like to help out the local woodpigeon and pheasant population as much as I can, I find a couple of hours in a toasty hot oven helps them shake the winter blues away nicely

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

I have the best fed birds in the area..My garden is full of birds, wren robin two or three different type of tit up to magpie and jay..

All my used parrot food goes into garden we have fat balls hanging outside the patio door.Ilove nature.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The garden birds feed our cats

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like to feed the pidgeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too... It gives me an enormous sense of well being

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I like to feed the pidgeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too... It gives me an enormous sense of well being"

Park Life

Lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes I understand the Importance of the Well being in feeding the birds, nature Is a wonderful thing it covers so many Things in life to have an Interest in This field and to be able to share it With people gives me a lot of pleasure In life as so many people like to do, And yes I love my feathered friends the Last true ancestors of the dinosaurs.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

We always feed the birds during the 'hungry gap' of winter, and put out water when it's freezing. That way there are more birds around in the spring to control the pests in the veg patch and garden.

Our feeder is positioned where we can see it both from the kitchen and the bedroom - there's nothing finer than looking down and watching a nice pair of tits on your nuts, and mrs ddc always likes to see a black bird enjoying her bush!

Mr ddc

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By *oo hotCouple
over a year ago

North West

"The garden birds feed our cats

This is actually a very big problem. A neighbours pet cat ate all three clutches from the moor hen nest on our pond last summer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The garden birds feed our cats

This is actually a very big problem. A neighbours pet cat ate all three clutches from the moor hen nest on our pond last summer."
For the Moorhens to not be able to rear at least One brood is a devastateing loss for them and numbers of birds will be Effected over time if this activity Carries on, did you see any other local broods of moorhen achieve Immature status, you may lose your Moorhens on yer pond due to the cat But at least they should have somewhere more safer to breed, If the cat went and was,nt replaced the moorhens would eventually move back on to your pond Over a period of time.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

"The garden birds feed our cats

This is actually a very big problem. A neighbours pet cat ate all three clutches from the moor hen nest on our pond last summer."

That's what cats do. I feed mine every day but they hunt still. It's nature doing its thing I'm afraid.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

"Use the fat from your Sunday roasts to make fat balls. The birds love them and it's high energy food to help them in the cold weather. "

(It also helps to add a little suet to keep it more solid as the weather warms up.)

We also like to put bits of fruit out for a pair of resident blackbirds. In fact it's a bit of a competition to see if then little hen-bird will polish off my banana before the black cock takes Mrs ddc's cherry...

Mr ddc

(I'm letting someone else ask about Robin tugging on my little worm - self-deprecating humour can only go do far!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i have a feeding station in garden, on thurs i put out 8 fatballs and now (sun) they're gone

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I remember a few years ago I had bought some fat or suet balls and no sooner Had I put them out outside on the rose trellis within a few days they were getting ravaged by wood mice as they Could climb the trellis work to get to Them also in one weekend they emptied one bird feeder of black Sun flower seed and most likely hid a lot away to eat at other times like a lot of birds do.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

The squirrels take ours, so we make our own in an old coconut shell and hang it upside down. He still tries though, last year he chewed through the string holding it on, so I had to replace it with 4mm wire.

The thought of those big teeth chewing on my fat balls still makes me shudder....

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I own cats so can't really feed the birds as its not fair

We go to the park and feed Ducks n Sean's n squirrels lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I own cats so can't really feed the birds as its not fair

We go to the park and feed Ducks n Sean's n squirrels lol "

Swans not Sean's lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cant beat a garden full of tits

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!

"i have a feeding station in garden, on thurs i put out 8 fatballs and now (sun) they're gone

I remember a few years ago I had bought some fat or suet balls and no sooner Had I put them out outside on the rose trellis within a few days they were getting ravaged by wood mice as they Could climb the trellis work to get to Them also in one weekend they emptied one bird feeder of black Sun flower seed and most likely hid a lot away to eat at other times like a lot of birds do."

I`ve currently got a problem with a lone squirrel that tries it`s luck but my Mum is getting very good at waving a grabber thing out of the window at it!

The biggest problem I have is rats coming after the food, especially just after harvest time. Doesn`t help having a neighbour who has ducks and geese and not a f*cking clue when best to feed them!

Whatpoint is there in feeding livestock just asit`s getting dark?

My cat also has the occasional bird but she`s slowly getting to learn that a dead bird means she is grounded for a day (kept inside) and has to sleep on her own and not come to bed with me!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I toss the breadcrumbs over next doors fence so she has to put up with all the bird shit on her patio and not me.

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By *ichaelangelaCouple
over a year ago

notts

we got feeding stations, she spends a fortune on various bird food, think the little feckers get better fed than me lol.

love watching them though, we have 3 pairs of goldfinches who seem to form an orderly queue for the niger seeds

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

RSPB are running a wildlife/bird survey starting 24th Jan go to their website for details.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The garden birds feed our cats

Pesky Fuckin cats don't even eat them, just play with em until they die, grrr

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The squirrels take ours, so we make our own in an old coconut shell and hang it upside down. He still tries though, last year he chewed through the string holding it on, so I had to replace it with 4mm wire.

The thought of those big teeth chewing on my fat balls still makes me shudder....

Mr ddc"
So it should OUCH..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"i have a feeding station in garden, on thurs i put out 8 fatballs and now (sun) they're gone

I`ve currently got a problem with a lone squirrel that tries it`s luck but my Mum is getting very good at waving a grabber thing out of the window at it!

The biggest problem I have is rats coming after the food, especially just after harvest time. Doesn`t help having a neighbour who has ducks and geese and not a f*cking clue when best to feed them!

Whatpoint is there in feeding livestock just asit`s getting dark?

My cat also has the occasional bird but she`s slowly getting to learn that a dead bird means she is grounded for a day (kept inside) and has to sleep on her own and not come to bed with me!"
Yeah I used to have problems with grey squrrels, not the Direction I liked but when property developers bought some land and removed some mature trees to my Displeasure the squirrels have presently thinned out in number we recently had 1 or two back but I don,t Think it suits them so much now has Before they caused havoc before along With magpies and crows but there,s Little you can do about it at the time Luckily any robins we have nest get out of view behind Ivy and any blue tits are safe inside the bird box, we Get dunnocks with youngsters and last Year I was surprised and pleased to see a young wren with its parent.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"we got feeding stations, she spends a fortune on various bird food, think the little feckers get better fed than me lol.

love watching them though, we have 3 pairs of goldfinches who seem to form an orderly queue for the niger seeds"
We had a pair of goldfinches nest in our front garden a few years back in our magnolia tree only Saw one youngster with the parents feeding on my cornflowers seeds.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"RSPB are running a wildlife/bird survey starting 24th Jan go to their website for details. "

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