Re: Do you feed the birds in Winter ?

Oh no think I'd scream the place down if I ever saw a rat near my garden - but in the house!! no way! I'm very much a live and let live but not rats..

We had a mouse in the garage last year, left it alone and it's gone now but that was enough for me.

Re: Do you feed the birds in Winter ?

We had a Rat early in the year which was eating all the bird food, and we did try to get rid of it and picked up all the food, then all of a sudden it disappeared, so we have put the food back now.

Little tiny mice I don't mind, the one resident mouse we have who lives in our Privit hedge is so cute, he is so tame that he lets me stroke his belly, while eating the nuts.

Re: Do you feed the birds in Winter ?

Does anyone melt fat and seed etc, to make winter food for the birds? Has anyone any 'recipes' for the most tasty and nourishing things to add to the mix?

Re: Do you feed the birds in Winter ?

When there are this many birds in the field behind your house...

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...I dont feed them, they feed me!

Re: Do you feed the birds in Winter ?

Just came across this piece of info from one of my wildlife sites.

Newton and came across the following statistics. ‘An estimated 12.6 million households in Britain provide supplementary food, for birds, 7.4 million of which use seed-holding feeders. A typical feeder holds 350g of seed, so if each was filled only once, they would hold a total of 2,590tonnes. If each bird took 5g of food per day, this amount would be equivalent to 518,000,000 ‘bird days’, or enough to feed about 2,830,000 birds every day for six months’.