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By *layfullsam OP   Man
over a year ago

Solihull

If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.

If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.

The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat

Does anyone else try to feed them ?

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

I do ... I adore the birds in my garden

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Yes we've put food out mainly seeds

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

Went shopping yesterday just for bird seed as I knew it was snowing today

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

I don't have a garden so I have a window bird feeder. I sometimes feel bad when I go into the kitchen too fast and give them a fright though.

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By *layfullsam OP   Man
over a year ago

Solihull


"I do ... I adore the birds in my garden "

It's a bit silly for a swingers site but they'll struggle in this weather to eat.

I've spent a fortune on food stations and fat balls etc

Pretty sure they "tweet" each other as you get more and more

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By *layfullsam OP   Man
over a year ago

Solihull


"I don't have a garden so I have a window bird feeder. I sometimes feel bad when I go into the kitchen too fast and give them a fright though. "

Lol I'm sure they appreciate the view

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


"I do ... I adore the birds in my garden

It's a bit silly for a swingers site but they'll struggle in this weather to eat.

I've spent a fortune on food stations and fat balls etc

Pretty sure they "tweet" each other as you get more and more "

They do and I get some that sit on the fence in the morning waiting and will come down while I'm still standing there ... it may be a bit sad but i love it

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By *layfullsam OP   Man
over a year ago

Solihull


"I do ... I adore the birds in my garden

It's a bit silly for a swingers site but they'll struggle in this weather to eat.

I've spent a fortune on food stations and fat balls etc

Pretty sure they "tweet" each other as you get more and more

They do and I get some that sit on the fence in the morning waiting and will come down while I'm still standing there ... it may be a bit sad but i love it "

Me to, I've got a robin that will come in the house now.

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


"I do ... I adore the birds in my garden

It's a bit silly for a swingers site but they'll struggle in this weather to eat.

I've spent a fortune on food stations and fat balls etc

Pretty sure they "tweet" each other as you get more and more

They do and I get some that sit on the fence in the morning waiting and will come down while I'm still standing there ... it may be a bit sad but i love it

Me to, I've got a robin that will come in the house now.

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Robins are my favourite bird

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

Yup - my birdies are well fed

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

My tits and red breasts are all plump!

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

No birds here .... mainly cats

So that probably scares the birds off

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By *inful xWoman
over a year ago

In a sleepy little village

I've been out 3 times today to top up my bird table

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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago

Hull

I buy fat balls and bird feeders and hang them from the tree in my mums garden. Love watching the birds come and go and there is a robin that’s been around for a couple of years now. I wouldn’t feed them in my own garden as I have cats.

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By *amissCouple
over a year ago

chelmsford

We have put fat balls out today. Some are hanging, but we also put some on a low feeding table. The birds have loved it today, we can see all their little footprints in the snow, where they've been running around the table

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

Three bird feeding stations and fat balls pinned up all over the garden, only problem is a local bloody sparrow hawk has cottoned on and swoops in every so often!

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By *s_macWoman
over a year ago

Traffic land

I’ve got a voracious hunting cat, so can’t unfortunately. Although I love watching the birds on her bird tables when I go to my Mom’s.

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By *sGivesWoodWoman
over a year ago

ST. AUSTELL, CORNWALL


"I’ve got a voracious hunting cat, so can’t unfortunately. Although I love watching the birds on her bird tables when I go to my Mom’s.

"

Same here but I have 4 of them.

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


"Yup - my birdies are well fed "

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


"If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.

If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.

The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat

Does anyone else try to feed them ?

"

And shite all over your windows

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

I remember one year when I was with my ex we made fat balls (well discs really) and hung them in the tree outside the flats but I saw some kids throwing stones at them I turned into the grump old man at number 36 then (I was 23/24 at the time

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


"I remember one year when I was with my ex we made fat balls (well discs really) and hung them in the tree outside the flats but I saw some kids throwing stones at them I turned into the grump old man at number 36 then (I was 23/24 at the time

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Yes

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

The garden bird feeders are plenty and very full . Hot to look after our feathered friends

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By *layfullsam OP   Man
over a year ago

Solihull


"If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.

If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.

The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat

Does anyone else try to feed them ?

And shite all over your windows "

Scientifically proven that you're more likely to get shit on if you don't feed them.

They tweet each other like "oi, the miserable lot at 42 haven't left food, let's shit on the gits"

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By *layfullsam OP   Man
over a year ago

Solihull

Well done everybody I'm suitably impressed x

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


"I do ... I adore the birds in my garden

It's a bit silly for a swingers site but they'll struggle in this weather to eat.

I've spent a fortune on food stations and fat balls etc

Pretty sure they "tweet" each other as you get more and more "

How cum you spent so much, it's only tuppence a bag

Yeah, I've been feeding the birds. We had a woodpecker in the garden the other day.

My favourites are the long tailed tits

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

Feeders filled every day plus fresh water in the bird bath then peep out the kitchen window and watch the birds come to feed. Get a lot of pleasure from doing that

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By *izzy RascallMan
over a year ago

Cardiff


"If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.

If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.

The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat

Does anyone else try to feed them ?

"

Yeah - out of my hand.

Haven't been successful with this year's Robins yet but they come when I call and get to about 1 foot away. Been going on for a few years and each year it's a younger relative than previous.

It started by complete accident.

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By *ympho7Couple
over a year ago

swansea

no shortage of sparrows here, blue and coal tits, starlings , jackdaws and pesky pigeons, all outside our living room window, magic.

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

Ive fed some of the local cats who pop in the garden,big animal lover and everyone should be warm and fed at this time of year and considering how much bloody snow we've had haha!

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By *SAchickWoman
over a year ago

Hillside desolate

I feed the birds all the time, but mostly what I get are big flocks of massive crows. But hey, they need love too

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By *unguya2zMan
over a year ago

coventry..ish


"If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.

If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.

The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat

Does anyone else try to feed them ?

Ive always fed the birds,

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By *ackDMissMorganCouple
over a year ago

Halifax

Last year i put water and biscuits out

Gonna pop out and do the same in a while.

Miss

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By *unguya2zMan
over a year ago

coventry..ish

Warms my heart to see so many people feed the birds.

Well done all of you.

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

yep hubby has 4 bird feeders, which he has put high up in a tree using a clothes prop as he also feeds any stray and feral cats! Black sunflower seeds, nyjer seeds, peanuts and suet pellets for the birds, finest cat food for the moggies, chicken for the fox.... and for me..... stale bread because he's spent all the shopping money on the animals

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By *hortieWoman
over a year ago

Northampton

Birds love fat balls this time of year

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


"If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.

If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.

The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat

Does anyone else try to feed them ?

"

get seagulls coming in to feed too, they take a lot of food but they need it being large birds so not a problem.. Got bird feederz up for smaller birds

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

Spread it out too to prevent squabling/fighting

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

I feed them all year round. Used to get pigeons eating it all but I got feeders with cages so only the little birds can get in. Love it when there's like 13 little birds on the window feeder or clinging to the wall waiting their turn.

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By *hortieWoman
over a year ago

Northampton

And don't hang feeders on/under any cat friendly perches.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrRxQVUFN4

costs a bit more than tuppence.

Round my way there is a problem with air rats (seagulls, specifically herring gulls) which eat anything thats not seeds including the smaller birds if they can grab them. Herring gulls need culling.

Regularly top up bird feeders though its mianly sparrows and starlings and a few robins.

Anyone with cats should know they are the biggest predation on birds and small wildlife in the garden, should be lawful to shoot cats on ones own property.

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

Just put your bird feeders were the cats can't get at them

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


"Birds love fat balls this time of year "

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