It is heartening that despite my feeding station with nut feeders, seed feeders and fat balls; and my feeders hanging from the tree and the fence; and the ground tray; and me putting out fresh food every day...
...the splendid red wing, two goldfiinches, two blackbirds, the lady chaffinch, the house sparrows, the dunnock and the all the bluetits and great tits in the tree in next door's garden felt able to sit there and allow the three woodpigeons to eat their fill in my garden.
Hi Diogenes,
Again, I had a chuckle at your story above. I've been there, seen it, done it, and given up. I have since removed all trays and hangers that have trays from my pole feeder to discourage pigeons (ferals, not woodies) and starlings. It has worked and all I get now are small birds. I had to put a flat feeder mounted on a fence specially for the starlings to use, and I find the ferals will use the bird table in preference to other feeders providing there is enough seed on it. They do use my mounted trays if there are a lot of them at once and there is no room on the bird table.
Cheers, Linda.
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Diogenes said:Pigeon perches on the fixed tray, pushes the seed feeder to one side and has the added bonus that seeds fall out of the seed feeder onto the tray base!
Hi Diogenes
I found that Rule 1 always applies if you have pigeons landing on hanging feeders: Rule 1 is don't have a seed tray on the base of your feeder, nor an arm or anything next to it that is easy to land on.
Best wishes Chris
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