Feeding the birds

I read porridge oats are good to feed ducks so I mix them in with all the birdseed (a lot of ducks here as there is a mere at the end of the garden) - Tesco value oats are actually cheaper than the cheapest birdseed I can find. Not being mean but it was costing me £15 - £20 per week and no way I can afford that. So the ducks get all the human food scraps now as well. The mere is actually frozen today and my cat was walking across it at 7am ?. Another thing to worry about in this horrible weather.

I mixed some bird seed with some old lard that I'd kept in the freezer for situations like this, but the only bird that was interested was a pigeon [probably the one that poos over my car every night! I did put some more peanuts in the bird feeder and I've got some suet that, again, was past it's use by date, that I put out. Can they eat porridge? I do have some more fat in the freezer that I can use. Annoyingly I haven't got any apples at the moment, but the blackbirds love them.

oops you need my abominable snowman!! Ratter in chief he is

Try to feed the birds, but the rats run accross the field and get there first. Sorry little birds....

If you’ve got spare Marge or butter, it helps them if you spread it on crusts.
Lard can be melted with breakfast cereal added to make a fat cake when cool.

Anyone see the deer walking along a high street looking for food?. It must be so hard for all wildlife. I’m doing what I can for the birds

We have just broken the ice on our pond, so the fish can breathe and the birds can drink.

We put out peanuts in a feeder for the bluetits. DH scatters wheat and seed mixture for ground feeders. I'm sure fruit and nut mix is fine, they would not have eaten it if they didn't like it.