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So if we can make fatballs out of lard and seed could we just buy a packet of lard, open it and leave it for the birds to peck at? 🤔
The wild birds need your help!!!
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So if we can make fatballs out of lard and seed could we just buy a packet of lard, open it and leave it for the birds to peck at? 🤔
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notmyrealnamebutclose
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Accy cyclist
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My mum used to cut the rind off bacon before grilling it, cut it up and put it on the cemetery wall outside our house, for the birds. I wonder which would be best. Raw bacon rind, or grilled/fried crispy rind?🤔
Accy cyclist
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I find it very annoying when dog owners let their dogs eat food put there for the birds! The other year I was in the local park. I chucked half a loaf of seeded wholemeal bread down for the birds, when this fat brown Labrador appeared and started to eat the bread like a pig at a trough. I hate gluttony so I chased the thing off, only for the owner to appear and have a go at me for shouting at her dog. I put it to her that the birds need food all year round, especially in winter and her dog looked like it wasn't in need of carbohydrates.
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notmyrealnamebutclose
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Brown labs are so fecking greedy! They had one in my ex(ish) local pub. I had a habit of eating a banana when it was quiz night. There I was with peeled banana in hand when up came brown lab and just chomped it out of my hand!!!
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
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Garden birds have been fed and some unfrozen has been left out for them as our bird bath is frozen solid despite my efforts of getting the ice block out
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We did similar a few years ago and they did from memory
Chislenko
Veteran
Mrs. C does that with the rind as well. It appears to be the one thing the Wood Pigeons won't eat so the smaller birds end up eating it.
Surprisingly yesterday, the Jackdaws, who never eat off the bird table (usually just the fat balls) were getting stuck into the seed and peanuts on the table so they must have been hungry.
Randomnerd
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- North Yorkshire
Please don’t feed bread to birds. There is very little nutrition in bread that a bird needs. It simply fills them up, and they don’t get to eat what they need. Feeding mouldy bread is even worse. If you don’t eat it, why would it be good for a bird? Mould can cause a bird to become unwell, particularly when compromised by cold.
For what to feed to encourage which birds, go to the British Trust for Ornithology website
https://www.bto.org/how-you-can-help/providing-birds/feeding-garden-birds
For what to feed to encourage which birds, go to the British Trust for Ornithology website
https://www.bto.org/how-you-can-help/providing-birds/feeding-garden-birds
matticus
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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!
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Shame about the low light levels; that would make a lovely festive picture!
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notmyrealnamebutclose
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Birds just don't seem to appreciate my fatballs apparently, even the starlings struggled to penetrate
them. I think i willstop there before I get into trouble.
them. I think i willstop there before I get into trouble.
ColinJ
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presta
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Wipe the vomit off their handbags and give them a lift home you mean?
A busy bird morning here, great, blue and coal tits on feeders. Two robins and two female blackbirds having frank exchanges of view. Bullfinch paid a visit as well as the usual dunnock, wren and magpies. they like the sunflower hearts and crushed peanuts. Oh and the female blackbird that’s been with us a few years is now on the window ledge enquiring about afternoon tea!
Seen from the bedroom window we have 100 or more greylag and pink footed geese, 8 swans, crows and an egret. Keeps you going when the cycling is curtailed.
Seen from the bedroom window we have 100 or more greylag and pink footed geese, 8 swans, crows and an egret. Keeps you going when the cycling is curtailed.
