Feed the Birds

[BroadScot]

Hi All,

 

With this cold snap our little feathered friends will be in need of feeding. A good way of feeding them is using some of your beef dripping or goose fat and bread leftovers heated like croutons and put out on a old baking tray. I am sure there will be many other ideas how to feed them.

 

 

Iain.

[quo vadis]

Turkey carcasses

[NorfolkNog]

Good idea Iain. Plenty of grub around in the summer but I think our feathered friends do appreciate a helping hand in cold weather.

These young swans certainly tucked into Mrs Nog's corn.

[Gracie]

Cheese sarnies

 

Grace

[BroadScot]

Cheese sarnies

 

Grace

Wheres the pickle

 

Iain

[Gracie]

Iain, please don't mention the P word, I love them but if I don't see another P until next Christmas it will be too soon Lol, you just can't beat cold meat and P's, hope you had a lovely Christmas

 

Grace

[BroadScot]

Hi Grace,

 

Yes Thank you, very pleasent indeed. If nowt else we have discovered Aldi's Creamy coleslaw is delish Still got ham left so its mair pickley things tonight. Oh for a square sliced roll n sausage 

 

Iain.

[MBA Marine]

The only birds I feed are my Mrs and our Chickens, anything wild I leave to fend for its self as I believe this is the only way for nature to balance. Harsh maybe but its my way!

[BroadScot]

Removed your double post Mark. Hope you don't mind.

 

 

Iain

[Polly]

Peanuts suet and seeds all go out. We get birds and squirrels. Today a pair of jays were pushing up the lid of the squirrel feeder to get their snack. I love them.

As for balance, Mark, I see it as redressing some of that, what with lost habitat and other forms of human impact on wildlife.

[MauriceMynah]

Mark,

I put some bread out for your Mrs, but there's no sign of her. You sure your not over feeding her or doesn't she come this far south (Bishops Stortford)

[MBA Marine]

Mark,

I put some bread out for your Mrs, but there's no sign of her. You sure your not over feeding her or doesn't she come this far south (Bishops Stortford)

She will go south but is well trained so only for me!! 

[SteveO]

We bought some suet-based pellets which have bits of fruit and mealworm in them. The great thing is that the birds love them - mainly blue tits and robins, but also green, gold and bullfinches, so we are seeing lots of colourful visitors. The even better news is that our large and pestilential grey squirrel population doesn't seem to be interested in them at all.

 

 

Steve

[BroadScot]

We have a blackbird with a lovely beek feeding off the catoniatsa berries. I keep trying to snap a pic of it, but its a very quick moving one, to say the least!

 

 

Iain.

[BroadScot]

Bump!

[GeoffandWendy]

Wendy sees to the birds in our garden. It seems that the starlings always get there first when she throws any bread out. We have a pair of regular Magpies, a resident Robin and quite a number of Bluetits, Chaffinches and a Large Heron, keeping watch over our pond. Just a decoy really, but it works, as long as you move him around each day.

Plenty of grey squirrels always there to pick up any left overs. This morning, Wendy mixed some lard and some old Quaker oats together to form some fat balls and the birds were going mad, until Millie our cat, showed up, after a visit next door. But the birds aren't put off by her.

[GeoffandWendy]

Seems not many of you feed the birds. There have been no posts since I last posted. 

[Polly]

We are too busy feeding them! Lol

[BroadScot]

Hi Geoff,

 

Panic not, the members know better than NOT to feed our feathered friends. Don;t you all??    

 

Iain

[Polly]

Yes Sir, indeed Sir.

[JennyMorgan]

Not just the birds, but foxes too. The buggers must be hungry, nicked four of my chickens, damn them.

[SweetKingfisher1]

The cats go mad watching the birds feeding just outside the bay window  . We have a bird table in the back garden and a feeding station out front  .

 

Regards

Marina  

[Labrador]

I'm doing my bit

[BroadScot]

I'm doing my bit

Woof woof!

 

 

Iain

[GeoffandWendy]

Oh I do feel so much better now, that you are all feeding our feathered friends. I will be able to sleep at night.