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What birds or other types of wildlife could I attract by putting rowan berries on these bird tables?

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  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Cotoneasters are easy shrubs and their flowers are popular with insects and birds love the berries that follow. Brambles are also good wildlife plants, providing food and safe shelter to insects and to birds for nesting.
    Woodpeckers and the tit family like peanuts. Finches love sunflower hearts. Robins, blackbirds and thrushes like mealworms and poking around on the grass or borders to find worms or slugs and snails. Many different birds will visit fatballs as a ready source of energy in hard times, especially in winter cold or in spring, when they have to work hard to feed their babies. 
    Hanging feeders suit most, while blackbirds will come to a bird table. Be prepared for pigeons, squirrels and rats who will be happy to eat whatever you are offering!
  • deadendwaterfalldeadendwaterfall Posts: 70
    Buttercupdays said:
    Cotoneasters are easy shrubs and their flowers are popular with insects and birds love the berries that follow. Brambles are also good wildlife plants, providing food and safe shelter to insects and to birds for nesting.
    Woodpeckers and the tit family like peanuts. Finches love sunflower hearts. Robins, blackbirds and thrushes like mealworms and poking around on the grass or borders to find worms or slugs and snails. Many different birds will visit fatballs as a ready source of energy in hard times, especially in winter cold or in spring, when they have to work hard to feed their babies. 
    Hanging feeders suit most, while blackbirds will come to a bird table. Be prepared for pigeons, squirrels and rats who will be happy to eat whatever you are offering!
    I've only ever seen a blackbird come to the bird table twice, all other times, they forage the nearby soil.

    Although I've never actually seen a woodpecker in the area, one of the neighbors with an allotment plot has told me they have definitely spotted a woodpecker in their plot, so thanks for the peanuts suggestion, the next thing I'll put on my bird tables will be peanuts, and I'll post back if I see a woodpecker in the wild corner of our plot.

    I've definitely seen LOTS of pigeons take an interest in the bird tables and seen a rat scurry near the shrubs in the wild corner on at least two different occasions. 
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