The wild birds need your help!!!

[notmyrealnamebutclose]

Just a quick reminder to try to help the wild birds who are suffering, getting cold hungry an weak in this frozen spell.
If you can give them some bird nuts and seeds cereals, anything really - you'd be surprised what they will eat when hungry!
They can eat your left over scraps from breakfast, dinner, tea etc
Here's the thing, you don't necessarily need a bird feeder you hang up somewhere, if you have a garage or shed throw your daily scraps on the roof, the rodents can't get at it up there. Please try to be kind and spare a thought for them, it cost next to nothing but a small amount of effort. Thank you

 

[Paulus]

I have my bird feeders and fat ball holders topped up every day.
Don't forget a bird bath or similar for drinking water.

 

[Chislenko]

As above, bird table filled up daily, fat balls in their feeders and water bowl (solid ice yesterday morning but sorted) .

I must say though the small birds very rarely come to the table, the Wood Pigeons seem to eat most of it.

 

[notmyrealnamebutclose]

I have my bird feeders and fat ball holders topped up every day.
Don't forget a bird bath or similar for drinking water.

I make some fat balls out of left over frying oil and bacon grease mixed in with some oats and rind, they love it.

 

[wafter]

Only today have I just refilled the sunflower seed feeder... which has probably dispensed a pint of its contents today. The garden's alive with the poor, cold hungry little buggers and I've even had a couple of female pheasants venture over the wall into the compound; which is unprecedented.

The blackbirds have been smashing my discarded apple cores too

 

[notmyrealnamebutclose]

As above, bird table filled up daily, fat balls in their feeders and water bowl (solid ice yesterday morning but sorted) .

I must say though the small birds very rarely come to the table, the Wood Pigeons seem to eat most of it.

Yes we get a few wood pidgeons, smaller birds don't get much of a look in when they move in. I open
the window that overlooks the shed roof and shoo them away for a while to give the blackbirds
robins, thrushes etc a chance. Starlings are greedy sods too and not so easily scared.

 

[annedonnelly]

My task of keeping the bird bath topped up and ice free would be a lot easier if the starlings didn't insist on splashing all the water out when they bathe.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

My task of keeping the bird bath topped up and ice free would be a lot easier if the starlings didn't insist on splashing all the water out when they bathe.

No manners those starlings , you’d think they were wild!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Regular visitors eating berries on one of our trees.

 

[Kingfisher101]

We have out 2 lots of containers full of fatballs and 3 others for seeds and nuts etc. We get a lot of little birds like blue tits, sparrows and Sparrowhawks of all things.

 

[Slick]

I always had a small feeder in the garden but during lockdown, I felt for all the small birds at my workplace who were used with hundreds of humans leaving all sorts of mess behind them then all of a sudden that stopped. As I was the only person not furloughed, I took it upon myself to make sure they had plenty to eat. I get all sorts of small birds, and even some of the larger ones that I used to chase but soon realised that they need to eat too. A pregnant duck soon noticed there was additional food on the go, and would come to my window twice a day for a fat ball, until she eventually turned up with 12 ducklings. They disappeared one by one over the course of the next couple of weeks, victims of the couple of hawks that are around from time to time. She came back not long after with a second clutch, and she raised all 8 of them to adulthood. I fed them every day and they would sometimes follow me when I arrived in the carpark in the morning. Im expecting a busy winter trying to keep everyone fed, but it does help keep me sane, so seems like a fair exchange.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I had to stop feeding the birds because of the pigeons.
They are nesting on our roof, making a mess of neighbours verandas.
They were coming in droves, eating all the food, shitting on my plants, nothing left for the wee birds

 

[Slick]

I had to stop feeding the birds because of the pigeons.
They are nesting on our roof, making a mess of neighbours verandas.
They were coming in droves, eating all the food, shitting on my plants, nothing left for the wee birds

That's a shame Pat, although I invested in a cracking little feeder that closes when anything larger tries to eat from it. I'll try and find it.

 

[Slick]

I had to stop feeding the birds because of the pigeons.
They are nesting on our roof, making a mess of neighbours verandas.
They were coming in droves, eating all the food, shitting on my plants, nothing left for the wee birds

Found it.

https://roamwildproducts.co.uk/coll...Bpk3Dbo4hdjn3FEsEZtBxi0E8aGr-Q8IaAgKQEALw_wcB

 

[Pat "5mph"]

That's a shame Pat, although I invested in a cracking little feeder that closes when anything larger tries to eat from it. I'll try and find it.

I also had a mouse in the big bag of bird feed!
My neighbour stopped the bird feeders too, for the same reasons as I did.
I left my sunflowers for the birds, they got munched for sure!