Bird table and birds

[Tony Clueless]

It is built with food on and they havent come

[mistere]

my suggestion, go to the house net to the old newsagents and steal their bird feeds, they have nearly every bird living visiting. im sure i saw a dodo once.
while you'r there say hi to my grandparents.

[jonesinamillion]

Suer fire way of attracing birds, did it last spring....
Spend good money and hours of your time seeding your lawn, sure as shit's brown there'll be a flock of the little b*stards undoing all your hard graft within second of you entering the house.

[Tony Clueless]

;D at Jonesy

[Northy]

what chuffed said, move it to tree cover, plenty of sparrow hawks about these days. I have some fat balls hanging off a few fence posts that has spiky bushes around it, plenty of birds on them. Also try some dried maelworms (soak them) and put them on a plate nextto some bushes, great for robins, blackbirds and thrush's. remember to take it in at night or the rats and mice will pay a visit.

[jonesinamillion]

You may ;D - I didn't! They got some cheek too, I'd go out scare 'em off and they just carry on around me, £22 in grass seed, a day of backbreaking work and it's still bald as a coot, arseholes I can tell thee.

[mistere]

"I have some fat balls hanging off a few fence posts that has spiky bushes around it, plenty of birds on them."


poor, poor man!! ;D

[mermaidsal]

Sorry to hear about your fat balls... but in my garden the squirrels (sorry Fornside) generally run off with those, it's really funny to watch because they're as big as half a squirrel.

Covered bird tables do seem to do better but birds (the flying sort not the human sort!) are weirdly conservative, you'll give up on the whole thing and suddenly find you've got loads of punters. The nearer a well-established hedge the better though, birds love hedges.

God what an exciting life I obviously have....

[Godo]

We used to have a bird table and added hanging feeders etc to a tree in our garden and we used get a lot of birds in the garden. Then my wife got that lazy/fuckwit cat and we hardly get any! Have you a cat living nearby?

[Time4aPINT]

That is the biggest bird table I've ever seen. I bet the sparrows are thinking, I'm not landing on there - that table was designed for bloody golden eagles.