Keep feeding those birds during the snowy weather

[cornish mackem]

thrush in the garden this afternoon, hadn't seen one for a while ( in the garden )

You need some cream for that

 

[Scimmy]

Daft next door neighbour feeds seagulls on her lawn. Guess what our car gets covered in?

 

[Geronimo]

My Mrs thinks we have a responsibility to feed every bird within 100 miles, stuff she puts out every day, costs a small fortune but worth it to see a multitude of different types all the time

Attracts rats ffs.

 

[look out piano]

The woman next door chucks full plate pies, bread and all kinds of shit down, not sure if they eat it mind (the local cats and rats probably do).

 

[Geronimo]

It's the bastard crows and magpies....

... and rats and fkn pigeons (flyin rats)

 

[macum1920]

View media item 6241Back today in front garden filling its face.

 

[cornish mackem]

Attracts rats ffs.

I’m in a battle killing rats at the minute
They have got in the cavity in the porch and the feeding of the birds is keeping them interested
Traps, bait boxes, air gun have taken a few but they are on a good thing with all the bird feed about

 

[Stubbs ftm]

Was just looking out at the snow and noticed a robin was eating seed on the bird feeder. The outside light is on. I didn't think they fed this late at night!

Must've been a big Robin to set your outside light off
Had a few green finches at the feeders, along with blue and great tits.

Had wood pigeons, blackbirds, doves and jackdaws all sitting in the tree waiting for me to put stuff out on the bird table round the side, greedy gits have snaffled the lot apart from nyger seeds

 

[The Red Telephone]

We get Oystercatchers nearby in the fields now they got a call

There's been a resident family at Durham's cricket ground in Ch le Street for the last 2-3 years. They used to do a few circuits of the ground in the late afternoon - after missing out last season hopefully we may get the chance to see if they're still there this summer.

Daft next door neighbour feeds seagulls on her lawn. Guess what our car gets covered in?

Same here. Live 10 miles from the coast but there were 40 of them devouring the bread she left out today with predictable results. Poor blackbirds and spuggies never got a look in.

 

[heroesof73]

Seems a daft question here but do most people put out cooked or uncooked bacon rind for the birds?

I chop the rind off and cut it into small pieces, fry off then crumble some bread in to soak the remaining oil up. Birds gan mad for it when it goes on the bird table

 

[becs]

Must've been a big Robin to set your outside light off
Had a few green finches at the feeders, along with blue and great tits.

Had wood pigeons, blackbirds, doves and jackdaws all sitting in the tree waiting for me to put stuff out on the bird table round the side, greedy gits have snaffled the lot apart from nyger seeds

It's not a PIR one. It's controlled by a switch in the house, and I'd left it on to look at the snow ❄

 

[Swindon On Tour]

This cold snap having to up the feeding frequency during the day.
Feeding suet pellets and the Blackbirds and Robins queue up.

A staggering 24 Blackbirds at one time.
Getting a few European Male Blackbirds that don’t have the bright yellow beak that the UK Males have. Different in colour from the female.

Robins virtually hit the pellets as they hit the lawn and as bold and tame as you would expect. They are feet away from the window.

 

[VerminKay]

I had 2 small mice helping themselves to the bird feed in our garden, then a big rat turned up and chased them off. Put a poison bait box down and rat disappeared and mice came back.

 

[Sidewinder2]

Got 3 feeders on the balcony railings, one fat / suet balls, one peanut and one seed.

Main users seem to be Robins, Blue Tits and Blackbirds at the minute

 

[becs]

I had 2 small mice helping themselves to the bird feed in our garden, then a big rat turned up and chased them off. Put a poison bait box down and rat disappeared and mice came back.

One of favourite ever things was looking out into the garden and seeing a field mouse sitting up looking happy as larry munching on piece of Oreo biscuit that the bairn had dropped

 

[Falconhoof]

Would it encourage more birds in if i erected a bird table and put food out on that instead of feeders?

 

[OLDROKERENDER]

Would it encourage more birds in if i erected a bird table and put food out on that instead of feeders?

I think the smaller birds like finches and sparrows prefer the feeders as they like to perch when they're feeding

 

[macum1920]

View media item 6266
Gold Crest the wife (Bill Oddie) tells me, keeps coming back, must be the mountain of food she puts out!!
Apologies for shite pic, it’s on top of the big white thing, small birdie!!

 

[Cattach SAFC]

Had what can only be described as a colony of Fieldfares descend on my garden. Must've been around 40 of them and they stripped the berries of the trees and away.

First time I've spotted them.

 

[herra soul mob]

Had what can only be described as a colony of Fieldfares descend on my garden. Must've been around 40 of them and they stripped the berries of the trees and away.

First time I've spotted them.

aye, they dont play games, same as waxwings , strip the trees and move on.