Please remember the birds ...Please remember the birds ...Please remember to feed the birds they're having a tough enough time of it as it is.
I make a sort of 'clicking' noise when I go out to feed them, (it's an age thing) and they all come down for their food Ninja Yes we are feeding the birds. They have had fat balls, peanuts, seed and oats but they still come down for the layers ellets too.
We've had blue tits, great tits, longtail tits, robins, sparrows blackbirds and a rather scraggy starling oh and a couple of pigeons. We sometimes get a fieldfare this time of year. Free hens are happy hens. Chicken centreparcs now complete! The girls love it.
I went out into my alleged garden (it's more like a large paddling pool with a clay base at the moment
I put out loads of wild bird seed, 2 fat blocks and extra mealworms. The starlings have been acting liek a pack of hyenas ever since - even when they're not feeding they sit on the fence and keep the little birds away. Then a huge crow turned up and they hopped round next door's garden looking put out. My feeder is outside the patio doors so I have a great view of it. Ever time I start to get stuff out of the freezer or hang laundry on the clothes horse I end up staring at the birds for ages! Waiting to welcome Sunny Clucker to Northern Ireland!
we feed the birds. Since we have had the chickens our bird population has trebled as they can get into the run. They have their own table too with fat balls and the like, but they like running the mantle of the coop, as the girls are quite territorial and like a bit of chasing!
5 dogs, 15 chickens (6 ex batts) 1 cockerel, and very limited tech skills
Posted: 6 Feb 09 pm 1 05 Post subject: Please remember the birds ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to feed the birds they're having a tough enough time of it as it is. I make a sort of 'clicking' noise when I go out to feed them, (it's an age thing) and they all come down for their food Ninja You should take a cod liver oil capsule every day, that should help
I have a minor dilemma insofar as I really do want to feed the birds but there is a moggie around our way that keeps killing them. I did stop feeding them for a while because it really isn’t fair to temp them in with a promise of food only for their lives to be taken by an ambushing cat. I have put feed out again and have my fingers crossed that someone’s pet doesn’t rediscover the feeding ground and add to the 450,000,000 wild birds and animals mur.dered by domestic cats each year.
Bah Humbug
S-S, my mum has the same problem - she has 2 cats who are bird killing machines. She now hangs fat balls on the very ends of twiggy bits sticking out high up her hawthorn hedge. The twigs are strong enough to support the fat balls and the birds, but the cats are far too heavy to get anywhere near them.
Waiting to welcome Sunny Clucker to Northern Ireland!
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