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My fat balls bring all the birds to the yard

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JaneJudge Sun 17-May-26 18:15:39

Seriously

Sainsburys had peckish feeders and fat balls on a nectar special last week which I put on my feeder

My feeder isn’t visited that often

In the space of a week it had all gone (and I’m not replacing the seed) but there were birds fighting over it.

I replaced the peckish fat balls with a good quality non peckish brand

Nothing in days. Maybe the occasional blue tit.

This is not an advertisement. It’s gone from a feeding frenzy to nothing 😂

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nanna8 Tue 19-May-26 01:32:46

Ooohhh you are awful, but I like it, as Dick Emery would have said, many moons ago.

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JaneJudge Sat 30-May-26 12:14:04

Franski

This is a perfect thread for me. Having obeyed rspb and got rid of the seeds (which birds loved snd devoured in two hours), I put up fat balls on Saturday and not a bit of interest....how odd....
Wonder why?

have you tried the peckish ones?

I had Henry Bell ones in between but now we are back to peckish and the starlings in particular love them. I have a summer berries suet block from ivel valley bird food which the blue tits absolutely love

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BlueBelle Sat 30-May-26 12:44:42

Poor old Henry how is going to manage without his fat balls

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AmberGran Sat 30-May-26 13:38:28

I don't know which ones we use but all the birds love them. They are square and sit in a cage and the crows take the top off the cage so they can pull them out.

There were 15 crows and jackdaws in the garden yesterday fighting over them - we chased them off so the small birds could get a look in and they lined up along the fence. It was like a scene from The Birds, quite scary.

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JamesandJon33 Sat 30-May-26 13:54:08

Biggest smile of the day.

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