The wild birds need your help!!!

[Pat "5mph"]

Found it.

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

Aye, but the pigeons go under, feed from the left overs.
I had tried similar, still my garden was full of pigeons

 

[Slick]

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!

Yeah I think I had a mouse too, although I didn't realise until I was moving house and put the seed in my truck before trading it in. I often wonder if there is a wee mouse getting chauffeured around in a truck with a big stack of seed planked.

 

[Slick]

Aye, but the pigeons go under, feed from the left overs.
I had tried similar, still my garden was full of pigeons

Yeah, they do right enough. The wee birds seem to throw stuff out for them.

 

[notmyrealnamebutclose]

I'm guessing it's the magpies that are taking the odd chicken thigh bones tho there was a crow sitting uncomfortably
on top of the hawthorne tree the other morning

 

[Accy cyclist]

Me and a woman I know feed the birds, on the 'bird lady's' grave. Though she only does it in winter, when I do it all year round. These pics were taken last Christmas Day, at 16:02 (hence the darkness) as I look at my phone's photo' gallery. Yes, I know it's bread on the ground and we aren't supposed to feed bread to birds, but it was seeded wholemeal if I remember rightly, so it's better than white bread and I'd mixed a bit of water in to soften it, making it easier to swallow.

She was known as the bird lady by the way because she was well known for every day chucking many handfuls of nuts and seeds etc on the ground for the birds (mostly pigeons) in the town centre.

 

[Red17]

We were getting loads of birds on our feeders over the summer, but nothing at all in the last couple of months.

Not sure what has happened although there does seem to be a lot more cats visiting our garden recently, so possibly related

 

[matticus]

I really hate wood pigeons. Sadly almost nothing else has eaten from the feeders we've put up at this house.

If they could sing - like doves can - I might forgive their other attributes. But they can't; that noise is more like a smoker's cough.

 

[ColinJ]

Old garlic naans, chaps?

[Checks back yard the following day...]

From the few remaining crumbs, I would say that the answer was a resounding YES PLEASE!

 

[annedonnelly]

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

I'm sick to death of pigeons. My neighbour feeds them but they prefer sitting on my roof as the solar panels make it warmer. Like Pat's they make a hell of a mess and I can even hear them cooing in the middle of the night.

 

[biggs682]

Garden birds have been fed
First to arrive was a blackbird who is now searching under the bay tree for the mealworms I put down

 

[matticus]

I've just been down a right internet rabbit hole ... anyway, look at these handsome fellas:
https://pigeonpedia.com/antwerp-smerle/

 

[Tail End Charlie]

I really hate wood pigeons. Sadly almost nothing else has eaten from the feeders we've put up at this house.

If they could sing - like doves can - I might forgive their other attributes. But they can't; that noise is more like a smoker's cough.

Try putting the food down and putting a flat cover over it. Wood pigeons like to take off vertically and won't go under the cover, but the other birds will. If you're worried about mice etc you'll have to fettle a bird table to keep food off the ground.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Too slippy/icy to get out the car this aft', so I wound the window down and threw slices of bread near the bird lady's grave. As soon as the bread hit the ground a little Robin appeared and had a good nibble!

 

[Fnaar]

I have a large bush () that provides shelter for gazillions of sparrows, who seem to take turns coming out to the feeders. My fat balls keep the birds full, and coming back for more, and I occasionally get visited by lovely tits too 🙂
(despite the Fnaar-isms, this is my way of saying that I regularly feed the birds that visit my garden, and I love watching them from the window) 😊🐦

 

[notmyrealnamebutclose]

I stretched to get my fat balls off the shelf but then realised I hadn't any money so I made
my own tonight using a pack of lard and mixed seeds that were going cheap. Will see how
they go down tomorrow