Bird Feeder full of Millet
Jun 25th, 2008 by Birdy Trish
Bird food - the feeder is now full of millet. I now have a garden full of frantic sparrows trying to sort out their ‘pecking order’ to get the millet from the feeder.
Millet is good bird food because it has a good food to energy ratio. That means when it is eaten it does not take long before the millet is changed into ‘bird’ energy.
Millet is very small seed and it takes a special feeder -
I ran out of millet a few days ago. There was always an array of sparrows sitting on the tray of the bird feeder pecking the millet - until I ran out of millet seed.
I find it hard to believe that my feeder being empty for 4 days would be a matter of life and death to this small flock of sparrows. Yet, these sparrows surrounded the feeder as though their lives depended on it.
I have other feeders that sparrows and other birds can go to. The droll yankee feeder is the only feeder in that garden that is (usually) full of millet and that is only used by sparrows.
20th June 2008 - running out of bird food
Info on millet and other bird food
Millet can also be one of the ingredients used in this bird food mixture coated in fatl
House Sparrow fact sheet
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A year ago today - 25 June 2007 Home Made Bird Food - bird food from left over scraps in the kitchen
