OK, so technically it's not 'feeding' garden visitors, but it is providing for them.
I'd read or seen somewhere that birds are only too happy to use pet hair in their nests, and here's the proof!
So if you have an old cage style feeder, stuff it with pet hair and see what happens! Also, thank you to Carrie the border collie for supplying the raw materials!
Kind regards
David
Yes David, I put my dog hair in a basket hung on the bird table, tits and Robin go mad for it, we used to have cairns and now have a Shih Tzu, Odly enough they none of them touch human hair/
isn't wild wonderful
Great pictures David , I actually done this yesterday with the help of a German Shepard who kindly donated her hair haha
When I have my hair cut, I ask the hairdresser to collect it up for me, and put it out. It does get used! Makes an interesting grey lining in the Bluetit nest!
What a good idea, I pick loads of cat hair off the vacuum cleaner bristles.
Best wishes
Hazel in Southwest France
Great idea David and nice to see the proof of it being used!
See my Flickr photos here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/115745582@N04/
Take care Mary L two years ago I returned home to see a blue tit speadwinged across the hole in a nest box.On getting it down we found it had strangled its self taking a long human hair in.Seems human hair is stringer than pet hair. It was ever so sad to see
Yes, good point, Min. My hair is short anyway, so the clippings are very short. I know chicks can get tangled in sheep's wool, so we do need to be careful what we use.
Black-and-white-cat combings disappeared within the hour - some blue tit has a very cosy nest lining.
I put out the fluff from my tumble dryer it was taken very quickly and I noticed the liner has been stripped from a hanging basket, great to watch them being so busy