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Anyone have fieldfares or redwings yet?
We put 3 feeders and a bowl of water out our back but it doesn't seem that birds use them? The feeders are basically prepacked raw peanuts in a kind of orange mesh bag (shaped like a big sauasage) and you can hang them off whatever. We've hung two on the clothes line thingie and one off a small tree. But haven't seen any birds eat from them.
Also threw some bread on a small patio table and put water there too. Hopefully it'll help some birds a little. No snow here at all so not too bad for them I guess but it is cold, about -2c on average during the daytime.
Maybe they don't see the mesh bags of nuts or maybe it's too difficult for them to access or maybe they don't like em, we don't know. It's important for folks to do what little they can though. That stuff only costs €2 in one of those €2 stores, you get a pack of 3 nut filled mesh feeders ready to be hung.
Last edited by vanla sighs; 2nd December 2010 at 02:42 PM.
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I have some finches eating peanuts ok but I can't get a robin to eat anything, not even bread crumbs. Would they eat worms?
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Collared doves, a seagull, chaffinches, robin, sparrows etc and an unidentified tit, this morning and afternoon.
Exhausing our supply of bird food rapidly. More tomorrow.
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Mealworms are a favourite with Robins. Other birds too, we have found out already.
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Could I risk taking this OT and ask why people feel obliged to feed the birds?
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It's enjoyable.
If you start doing it you sort of have to keep doing it (they become dependent on you).
You feel you are doing something for nature/the-environment by assisting wildlife to live, although starvation is part of nature - modern urbanised people tend to view it instead as something that can be corrected, in addition there is (in myself anyway) an acknowledgement that humans have ravaged their natural habitats.
Wild bird activity can make an attractive addition to your garden (and the singing of some species can be superb), people like to feel close to nature - even in the city.
Because a lot of them will die of starvation when they can't feed themselves when the ground is frozen solid or covered with snow! Doh!
saw the first goldfinch at my feeder today
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