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Bird food
Guernsey Donkey2
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Has anyone tried Flutter Butter bird food? It comes in a jar or you can buy pods - expensive, our birds love it. It is like Peanut Butter although I haven't tried this bird variety! In the January G.W. magazine there is an offer for 6 of pods and a feeder and I would like to know if anyone has bought a feeder and are they worth buying?
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Hi GD,
I haven't personally tried Flutter Butter, but I know people who feed their birds on it.
The brand I'm familiar with is Suet To Go Birdy Butter - pretty much the same thing really.
It's £2.99 for a 350g jar and you can get the feeders for those, which I know to be good.
It keeps the birds happy at least - I haven't actually tasted it myself you understand, I prefer the usual peanut butter on my toast!
Yummy, suet to go Birdy Butter - sounds tasty to me pbff. I will look out for it in the GC next time there.
Flutter Butter is popular with our birds but a tad expensive and I don't want them just to feed on this as I have plenty of other seeds and nuts for them which are nowhere as expensive.
I buy the cheapest porridge oats at Aldi for the pesky starlings.
I buy the cheap porridge oats and scatter them on the lawn ... the blackbirds all eat them ... we had twenty out there the other day.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I would do the same but there is the cat to consider, so as long as the birds are eating from the suspended feeders they are safe from his claws. I did scatter oats under the hedge daily for a few months but Mr. Percy caught one of the pigeons that had regularly eaten them.
I've got a flutter butter feeder, the other brand jars fit in as well although sometimes I've struggled to remove the empty jar.
I mostly feed them in Spring, very popular with the starlings, they find it easier with the feeder but little birds can just stand inside the jar.
That's interesting Victoria Sponge. Have you had the feeder for a long time? I thought this was something new to the market. Is your feeder green with a extended perch/stand for the birds to stand on whilst feeding from the jar? We no longer have starlings in our garden but it looks like either the sparrows or pigeons like it too.
Hi GD, I think it is as you describe...I'll have a look on the weekend in the daylight.
Other birds do use it but it depends where it's hung, I think little birds like tits used it. I remember being concerned initially they might get stuck in the jar but that's never happened.
That would be awful, so pleased that the little birds haven't got stuck in the jar V.S.
I though the offer was almost too good to be true - 6 jars (or pods as they call them) and a feeder to insert the jar into with a hanger. Now I notice that postage is £3.99 on top of that making just about £13.00 - is that good value?
Hi GD, Sorry, I couldn't find the feeder, think it's in the shed but it's a right tip
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This is the one I bought, price is about the same minus postage I suppose:
https://www.gardenwildlifedirect.co.uk/bird-suet-foods/peanut-butter/flutter-butter-peanut-butter-for-wild-birds.html