I have fallen out of love with feeding birds. We have a lovely grape vine covered pergola close to the house and not far from the bird feeder.
In previous years we have had up to 50lbs of grapes off the vine. This year 3lbs. No lack of grapes, You can see the stalks of all the bunches of grapes that there were. It is just that the birds were eating them and as they will eat the grapes before they are really ripe enough for us. I was faced between picking all the grapes, unripe and inedible, or being beaten to them by the birds.
The problem is, that if I move the bird table, we cannot see it from the kitchen or living room, which rather defeats the purpose of having the feeders.
Like you Hippywitch I love the snow, frost and cold, but over the last few years there has been very little of any of them in Oxfordshire. Last winter was completely snow free