IAs well as sunflower hearts, dried and fresh mealworms and ground feed, I've started feeding suet pellets containing mealworms in a peanut holder - I find that as well as being visited by the blue and great tits, the house sparrows just love these as do the starlings. The starlings also have to work just a bit harder to cling onto the wire so don't make quite such pigs of themselves as they do on the suet blocks, and this gives the smaller brds a chance.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I live in a town in NE England. I posted in the winter that I'd spotted some goldfinches. I bought them a special feeder with Niger seed and they ignored it for months. However they seemed happy on the no mess sunflower seed feeder. Now they use both feeders so I don't feel I be waste of my money. Lots of tits chaffinches and robins blackbirds dunnocks etc. sadly no sparrows and just the odd starling...the real pests this year are wood pigeons, greedy devils.
My best spot was a lone bullfinch which I only saw once two or three weeks ago.
I get bull finches, gold finches and green finches regularly, masses of starlings (like 50 at a time) even a willow tit recently (which must have been lost!) less commonly I get linnets, partridges and a heron that wont take the hint that there's no fish in my pond!
This evening OH was washing up and one of the robins saw him through the kitchen window and demanded mealworms - OH came through to the dining room door out to the terrace and the robin flew straight to him and fed from his hand before OH had stepped outside!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Satisfying isn't it Jamzi?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
IAs well as sunflower hearts, dried and fresh mealworms and ground feed, I've started feeding suet pellets containing mealworms in a peanut holder - I find that as well as being visited by the blue and great tits, the house sparrows just love these as do the starlings. The starlings also have to work just a bit harder to cling onto the wire so don't make quite such pigs of themselves as they do on the suet blocks, and this gives the smaller brds a chance.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My best spot was a lone bullfinch which I only saw once two or three weeks ago.
Bullfinches are always good to see, and I know of several bird tables where they are regular visitors.
I get bull finches, gold finches and green finches regularly, masses of starlings (like 50 at a time) even a willow tit recently (which must have been lost!) less commonly I get linnets, partridges and a heron that wont take the hint that there's no fish in my pond!
I am sitting next to the patio door with a nuthatch feeding on a suet ball within inches of me. No camera near!
Isnt' it great Barry?!
This evening OH was washing up and one of the robins saw him through the kitchen window and demanded mealworms - OH came through to the dining room door out to the terrace and the robin flew straight to him and fed from his hand before OH had stepped outside!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove and Barry
Ain't life grand sometimes
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Robin is still demanding food - I was out there at 9pm with live mealworms and a robin in the palm of my hand - it doesn't get much better than this
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi I use Niger and sunflower hearts, with suet in winter.
i get loads of visitors.
this year for the first time a mistlethrush visits the garden, and a wren is nesting in the ivy on the house.