Posted in Bird Feeders on Jul 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Mar 2nd, 2008 3 Comments »
As you can see from the photo below black sunflower seed and nyjer seed are very similar.
But nyjer seed is so much smaller than black sunflower seeds.
I’ve found it hard to feed nyjer seed to birds - if I put it on a birdtable it blows away with the slightest breeze.
I put it in a very small feeder but none [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
For the bird and also for the bird feeder using straight seeds instead of bird seed mixes gives new opportunities.
You can set out to attract new species by using a seeds like nyjer and millet as a single feed and not mixed with other bird seed.
Millet: Has a good food to energy ratio. It is a food [...]
