I bought my last bag of peanuts from a well known trade card store and although they are free of aflatoxins a lot of them looked a bit shrivelled and dry.
Is it really worth paying more for peanuts? Do birds really prefer the Large Premium ones or doesn't it matter to them?
I have my 10% discount offer to spend and I'm trying to decide whether to switch or not.
I found that I threw quite a lot away from this last sack so maybe with peanuts you get what you pay for
Best wishes Chris
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Thanks Woodpecker. I have so few tits that it would take forever for them to empty a feeder, so I'll stick to putting them in a mix. The ones I mix in with other food are often left behind at the end of the day, although late yesterday afternoon a collared dove emptied a dish full. My coal tits and blue tits take them, and maybe the robins. The starlings definitely don't like them - as you say, a good thing!
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Thanks Janet. My sparrows use the whole peanut feeder, but I've never seen the starlings have a go.
Sparrow, the blue tits, of which we have large numbers, are the biggest eaters of the peanut granules and also the pair of nuthatch we have.
Hi Brenda,
The age old question of chickens and eggs. Which came first - the peanut granules or the blue tits?
I only have a small handful of tits - coal and blue. Between them they couldn't eat enough to warrant a feeder full of them. They seem to find what they want in and amongst the general mix. Or perhaps not! Perhaps that's why I haven't got many! They don't use the whole peanut hangers.
HI Sparrow, we bought this house just over 3 years ago and on the first day I put the sunflower hearts up and then watched their numbers increase gradually. It was some time before I gave them the peanut granules and now they eat both, but their numbers always seem to be increasing. Possibly because they use 7 nest boxes (next door neighbour and ours) and the young stay around plus any newcomers. We also have oak trees around us and they feed their young on the oak tree catterpillar.
I'm hoping for some babies this spring. Two blue tits are busy getting my sparrows 3-hole nest box to their liking. They are always in and out, removing the shredded paper I had put in the compartments to keep them warm during the snow if they wanted to roost inside. I also have 2 coal tits who spend a lot of time in the thick ivy on the house wall and seem to have paired up. I have all my fingers crossed, but this will be my first breeding season as a garden bird watcher so I'm not sure what to expect. There are some old oak trees in the vicinity.
Susan H said: Thanks Woodpecker. I have so few tits that it would take forever for them to empty a feeder, so I'll stick to putting them in a mix. The ones I mix in with other food are often left behind at the end of the day, although late yesterday afternoon a collared dove emptied a dish full. My coal tits and blue tits take them, and maybe the robins. The starlings definitely don't like them - as you say, a good thing!