we have a bird table with a couple of feeders hanging off it; we put seed on the table and in the feeders.
all the "pretty little birds" enjoy both the table and the feeders. Blue tits, great tits, robins, coal tits, the odd long-tailed tit and there are also a couple of dunnocks that hoover up around the bottom of the table. Occasional blackbird, magpies, jackdaws too
unfortunately a couple of wood pigeons have also discovered the free restaurant for birds., and they're greedy buggers. They're like Mr Creosote, they just sit & eat & eat until a magpie decides it's time to move them on. Or I do.
what can I do to stop the greedy b*stards without stopping the other birds? Stuffed peregrine falcon on the roof? wouldn't that scare off all the other birds?
Air rifle 😈
Feed them up with tasty huts, shoot, eat. Yum.
Only real way is the hanging feeders IME.
I thought that might be the answer. it'll be a shame for the robins & blackbirds 🙁
or we put up with Mr Creosote & shoo him off when we see him
Pad fried Pidgeon breast is a regular meal, courtesy of them munching the tops of my brassicas . . . and sitting still long enough to get in the cross-hairs!
Hmmm....
Need to get a bird table, and give the black widow another target, insted of just the foxes.
Pan fried pigeon hmmm....
🙁 poor fox.
Put a hanging basket upside down on the table? Will stop greedy magpies and jackdaws as well and the little birds should be able to get through the bars.
It's the squirrels that annoy me, they scare off all the birds
robins and blackbirds manage fine with our hanging feeder.
We got a bird table with a very low "roof" on it. The small birds can get in under to get food, the stupid fat pigeons eventually got fed up with only being able to sit on tbe roof and watch them.
[url= http://shopping.rspb.org.uk/ground-protector-narrow-mesh.html ]Caged ground feeder[/url] might also work.
Birds like Robins, Dunnocks, Wrens tend to prefer ground feeding anyway, holes will probably be too small for Thrushes, Blackbirds, but will definitely keep out anything bigger.
that looks to be a good solution for the ground feeders.
I wonder if I could make some vertical "bars" out of old garden cane. Would keep the pigeons & magpies off, but not the smaller birds
we had a fox come to visit during the late summer / autumn. He seemed to be very much at home.
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