Wild Birds

Bought a new super duper much larger bird house 10 days ago- and the birds are only beginning to flock back now- they seem to ahve been scared away by the change. We have 100s here, sparrows, nuthatches and tits of every kind (no long tailed tits though as we had in profusion in East Leics), many types of finches, and many many more. In heavy snow yesterday we had a bedraggled blackbird- which we rarely see here.

The sparrows scoff the chicken's grain here. And we have a robin, or maybe more than one, who comes into the house, hops around, quite at home.
He stood in the cat's dish today eating her croquettes, while we sat at the table nearby eating our lunch Cat was asleep.
We often have the door open.

They'll come, give them time. And then when you run out of food they'll all b****r off and go somewhere else. We only have sparrows, a robin and a couple of dunnocks in this garden. I miss the lovely birds from my old garden.

We only use hanging feeders for that very reason ninanana. Had to give up completely on my lovely bird table. Sodding pigeons.

DH adapted our bird table to try and stop the @#%& feral pigeons without success.
He spends £s on seed, nuts and mealworms and I make fat balls.
We have a resident robin and a pair of blue tits we see occasionally.
Patience will see them arrive I'm sure.

It is just patience they will find it eventually, we have one of those squirrel proof bird feeders DH treated himself , it took a few weeks but now we have lots of birds who come every day some are ground feeders and just eat what drops on the floor and others like the very annoying parakeets we have round here make a meal of the peanuts, but after a few minutes DH goes out and scares them off as they frighten all the little birds off.

They need water too which freezes really quickly in this cold so I replace it every day.

That's what happened in our house too jing only it was a starling. All that was left was feathers and two halfs of beak?

My DD has the same trouble. Nothing comes to her bird feeder. And it's well away from the house. Loads come to ours. The robins love the half coconut filled with suet and seeds that I added when the weather got colder.

My DS has loads of sparrows come to his. And a Sparrow Hawk came and gobbled one up the other day.

I do put out nuts in a very robust metal container as anything else is promptly taken by squirrels. Far bald would be home on minutes. We get a few birds on the nuts but not a great number.

Yes! They seem to take absolutely ages but they will eventually come. One of the biggest attractions is fat so you try suet blocks or fat balls.