Hello everyone. Recently my bird feeders have been left quite untouched. I have been feeding the birds for a few years (until last year when we had to take them down for 6 months because of rats), and we have usually been popular, and have had regular Great, Blue and Coal Tits, Robins, Dunnocks, Blackbirds, Goldfinches, House Sparrows, and for the last 2 winters (usually Christmas to mid January), Blackcaps. But since the end of summer, the birds seem to have vanished (apart from 'our' Robin and a couple of Dunnocks). The feeders were very busy in the summer, with our nesting Blue Tits getting food for their young and themselves from the fatball feeder, and lots of House Sparrows on the Feeder Mix and Sunflower Hearts, but come Autumn and the beginning of Winter, the birds have gone! The only exception was the other week when we had a pair of Great Tits coming into the garden... while I was cleaning the feeders! And 1 or 2 Blackbirds eating some berries.
Any suggestions as to why the birds aren't visiting and how I can get them back? Could it be the mild weather?
Thanks, Skua.
Hi Skua,
Have you had any changes such as hedges, bushes or trees removed/cut? It seems strange that they have disappeared when they are most reliant on garden feeders this time of year.
May be worth trying some homemade fat balls, suet pellets and sun flower hearts. That is the favourite in my garden.
Neil