Bird feeders

tattynan

I love feeding the birds and watching them in the garden. I find that the fat balls and peanuts never get eaten and end up going mouldy and being thrown away. The birds in my garden like mealworms and the blackberry fat pellets and I get through bags of them. Use a mixed seed as well. I go to Pound stretcher and the Range for bird supplies as they are a good price.

It must be a matter of where you live.
The garden birds here ( goldfinches/ greenfinches, nuthatches
Bluetits/ ( and all tits?) especially the long tailed ones/ robins etc all go nuts ....pardon the pun for peanuts and fatballs.We also have two feeders just for sunflower hearts as all birds seem to love those.
Rooks and Jackdaws also love fatballs unfortunately, but the squirrels prefer the seed to anything else.

It's not the fluffy tailed squirrels I've problems with, it's the long skinny tailed dirty stinky creature I've a problem with. I've a damn rat that appears at times! It goes after the bits that drop from the feeders and I can't cope at all. I've have my RSPB birdwatch at the end of the month and at the minute I can't even put the feeders out to bring my feathered friends to my garden.

timetogo2016, I'm not sure about WD40, but I use Vaseline on the pole - to stop snails raiding the feeders,

I buy sacks of quality food from Peckamix and I'm on the lookout for easy-clean feeders.

We get no squirrels here even though we love very close to woodlands where there are red squirrels in abundance.

I spend a small fortune on massive sacks of mealworms. They adore them. And apparently humans can eat them now as well! I shan't be bothering.

Sometimes nuts are left, suet balls and mealworms

Who'd have thought garden birds would be fussy!

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Oh!