Posted in Birds I've seen in and around my garden on Mar 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
Blackbirds in my garden eat a lot of the bird food I put out.
I’ve just mentioned in another diary entry that the blackbirds stay at the ground feeder and hop around at their leisure.
I also like taking photographs. I have my first digital camera which was a mystery to me at first. After going on two courses [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Sunflower hearts are eaten by a lot of birds including
Blackbird
Blue Tit
Chaffinch
Coal Tit
Dunnock
Goldfinch
Great Tit
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Robin
Starling
Woodpecker
Sunflower hearts are not eated by the
Song thrush
Collared dove
Sunflower hearts are a good alternative to peanuts.
I don’t want to feed starlings because they arrive in such a big swarm and completely take over everything. This is what happened in August last year
Yet, [...]
Posted in Bird Food on Nov 28th, 2007 No Comments »
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. [...]