Bird Table News

It’s only October so it’s not even winter yet, but if we get bird feeding into our minds now it will be second nature to us when the cold weather comes.
I’ve just had some more bird food delivered.  I say it will last me through the winter, but I know it won’t.
A few top tips [...]

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Have had to put the bird food out early this morning.
It was still darkish outside.  The air was fresh though and some birds had started to move in the hedge as I could hear the branches and leaves and wings fluttering  as the birds moved about in the hedge
Didn’t have to use a torch but [...]

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Hi,
Ages ago I bought a big bag of millet and use it in the PK Feeder.  I get a small flock of sparrows at the feeder nearly all the day
I’m getting to the end of the bag now.  Although the millet looks OK there is a small musty smell to it.  I can’t see any [...]

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Hi,  We used to have a lot of hens, then for some reason we got down to two hens.  They were always together walking about the farmyard together
Recently we got about 20 more hens,.  They are filling out, strutting all over the place , and more importanly they are laying eggs for us.
They are free [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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