Bird Feeder Stories

Hi there and welcome to the forums :-)

We have a 'post' with a cage for a seed feeder and another with one for peanuts; and a bird bath which was a parting gift from colleagues.

What a lovely good morning that was :-D

Hi Coal,

love your story about the Robin - we've never had one quite that brave.  Although we did have Woodpigeon think he could come into the house once, he waddled down the path and onto the step like he owned the place, lol!

I have a small ground feeder (mostly used by a mouse), a larger ground feeder which the blackbirds have claimed as their own.  Then there's my feeding station, with a mesh tray which everyone eats off, it also has 4 feeders which vary depending on who wants want (if you get what I mean).

Then there's my "Sparrow Corner" which is 4 feeders (total of 20 ports) solely for my House Sparrow colony.

I also have a sparrows corner with a mesh tray attached to a fence and a feeder with an enclosed tray where they can sit, and where at least 2 of them sleep it off during the warmer months. The starlings also use this corner. However, since the cold weather the sparrows have abandoned this corner completely and moved over to the other side of the garden and insist on feeding on the ground.

I have a ground feeder on my front lawn under a tree, intended for the blackbirds, but used also by starlings, robins, dunnocks and a song thrush.

I have a Tom Chambers Ultimate feeding station with several different sorts of feeders, and a variety of different foods. The jackdaws and starlings sit on the pinnacle and the arms (not at the same time) in between feeding, the goldies come when they feel like it, the tits come in their usual grab and go manner, the feral pigeons cause chaos trying to use the hanging feeders (wings flapping), the robins use it, the sparrows use it occasionally, and the song thrush used the mesh tray today. It has birds of one description or another using it all the time.

I have just started to put a dish of food in a window box attached to a shed opposite the kitchen window hoping the blackbirds and dunnocks will use it, but so far only the robins and starlings.

I have a tall bird table for the pigeons and jackdaws, but the starlings (they get everywhere) and sparrows also use it.

Whilst we have thick compacted ice and snow in the garden I have been scattering a variety of food here, there and everywhere, but the dog gets most of it. I put some on the patio table and found her up there earlier today munching mealworms. Disgusting dog.

I put soaked bread on the flat roof of the shed for the gulls.

Looking at all the above, it's no wonder I'm broke!