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When to stop feeding birds?

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  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Thanks LB I didn’t have loads mostly the most beautiful little finches, bit always 2 or 3 at any one time. Keeping everything crossed they come back. 
  • TimmyMagicTimmyMagic Posts: 135
    It's interesting how most on here feed all year round. Here's another question if I may... roughly how much do you spend per month on bird feed?
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    Hmmm never stopped to work it out. I go to my local corn mill and buy 40Kg every time which costs round about £48 but I've never really estimated how long that lasts. At a rough guess maybe about 3 months depending on the time of year.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I buy a bag of sunflower hearts from my little local shop most weeks, about £1.59 a kilo? So a lot less than £100 a year and worth every penny! 
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Feed all year round but stop the fat blocks in the summer.
    This is the first year the woodpecker has been here all winter.
    SW Scotland
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    I suppose it depends on the number of feeders you have as well. I have 8 six port feeders.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    I have a pole with 3 feeders on but as I say it’s not overly busy. Last year I fed at the allotment too but naughty squirrels chewed all the plastic feeders so need to replace them. We don’t get squirrels in my garden there is a man 3 doors down who traps and shoots them! I think it’s horrible but can’t stop him and I am probably in the minority. I like squirrels 🐿 
  • cornellycornelly Posts: 970
    Always handy to have a shrub close by for the birds protection, we have a berberis, stops the sparrow hawk in its tracks when the birds shelter in it.
  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    I like them too Debs but I chase them away off the bird feeders. I couldn't kill them.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • biofreakbiofreak Posts: 1,089
    I buy bird feed in Poundland in UK and in Noz or Action in France, plus may succumb in the Garden Centre if price realistic which isn't often! -Re Mealworms -Should they be soaked regardless? Someone told me that there was a piece on Gardeners World about it, but I must have missed that episode becuase I don't remember it.
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