Bird Table News

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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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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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 [...]

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At the moment one of the busiest feeders in my garden is the  Droll Yankee Peter’s Pride Seed Feeder

I have put millet inside this feeder.  The only birds that feeds from it are -sparrows,, but Oh boy it does attract a lot of sparrows every day.
Sparrows flit on and off this feeder. They  sit on the feed tray at [...]

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 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 [...]

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Food for birds is very important throughout the year so putting out any type of bird food helps and means you can attract birds. Here’s some of the favourite food of some garden birds -

Song Thrush
Peanut granules, mealworms, fruit (I put out peeled and chopped apple).  I also put out grated cheese.
Blackbird
Peanut granules, mealworks, apple.  [...]

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