08-10-2015, 02:07 AM
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Feeding backyard visitors
I am an avid birdlover and have been birdwatching and feeding a variety of hummingbirds, songbirds, bluejays, and groundfeeders for many years. In the winter I make up a delicious homemade suet for the beauties to enjoy... Just wondering if you feed any birds and what kind have you attracted to your feeders.
08-10-2015, 02:56 PM
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Re: Feeding backyard visitors
I was feeding the birds every day, with a variety of bird food purchased from Haiths & other places, but for the past few months I stopped feeding our garden birds, due to the number of cats visiting my garden, cats I didn't know & had never seen before.We have a variety of species here & I guess they all wonder why now no food, but I am not prepared to make them a snack for a prowling cat.
Once the weather gets chillier & natural food is more scarce I will start feeding the garden birds again.
08-10-2015, 09:49 PM
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Re: Feeding backyard visitors
Originally Posted by Abbey
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I feed the birds on fat balls and seed mix at the forest where I walk my dogs . There are robins , blue tits , great tits , coal tits , chaffinch , sparrows , spotted woodpecker and one pair of jays .
08-10-2015, 09:50 PM
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Re: Feeding backyard visitors
Originally Posted by Tiffany
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I was feeding the birds every day, with a variety of bird food purchased from Haiths & other places, but for the past few months I stopped feeding our garden birds, due to the number of cats visiting my garden, cats I didn't know & had never seen before.We have a variety of species here & I guess they all wonder why now no food, but I am not prepared to make them a snack for a prowling cat.
Once the weather gets chillier & natural food is more scarce I will start feeding the garden birds again.
09-10-2015, 01:53 AM
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Re: Feeding backyard visitors
At work I'm in a lawn and garden department. There's always those pesky bags of birdseed leaking
I regularly fill an empty box with seed and go to the outer edges of the parking lot. I'll watch in the distance a few hours later and it looks like " The Birds". Love the Cardinals and Blue Jays but they're all beautiful.There is also a resident chipmunk, he might have a family, it's hard to tell. I always kneel under one of the plant shelves and push a bird bell under there. When I check a few days later it's always nibbled to the core. It just makes you feel pleased to be feeding the woodland creatures.
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