Posted in Bird Food on Sep 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Millet
Millet is a small white seed about the size of a pin head
When one type of seed is bought on it’s own it is called either straight seed or single seed.
Millet is a good single seed to use
Millet has a very good food to energy ratio This means when a bird eats millet it soon changes this [...]
Posted in General on Sep 28th, 2008 No Comments »
There is a lot of wild bird food in among the countryside
The rosehip is a large berry and blackbirds and thrushes find it easy to eat. Smaller birds give it a miss!
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THE ELDERBERRY BUSH WITH ELDERBERRIES
Thrushes and starlings like the elderberry.
NESTING: The elderberry hedge also provides nest sites for chaffinches, blackbirds and thrushes.
We have a [...]
Posted in Bird Feeders on Sep 7th, 2008 No Comments »
I feel a little sad. My carefree bird feeding days are certainly gone. I’ll have to put all the food in a caged bird table or caged containers.
One of the things about bird feeding that I like is watching the birds flit freely onto and off the birdtables and swoop onto the bird feeders - [...]
Posted in General on Sep 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
I’m going to visit my daughter so am getting other people to feed the birds for me
What a going on! I’m writing notes left, right and centre. I think it’s more complicated than feeding a herd of cows.
It’s only for Saturday and Sunday so they won’t starve - the birds I mean not the family!
Yet [...]
Posted in Bird Feeders on Sep 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
Wil it ever stop raining?
With weather like this the owls won’t be having a very good time. Owls can’t hunt very well if their feathers get wet - so they go hungry.
This cold, wet weather’s bad for a variety of garden birds as well.
Keeping feeders clean and dry in wet weather is a challenge.
I’ve just [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Sep 1st, 2008 No Comments »
I was going to sort myself out with my bird feeders, bird food and bird food containers. I was going to get ready for Autumn and Winter bird feeding. I like to have a sort out, tidy things up and wash and clean all the containers in summer - it’s too cold to do it in [...]