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Louise Limb
27/09/2021 12:27

Morning,

We live in a fairly rural environment but have been feeding the birds for the last 20 odd years.  We have wood peckers, pheasants, Robins, blue tits, sparrows and finches to name a few.

I am really panicking as we have been served notice as the landlords want to develop our family home into something which is none residential so don’t know if they will have future feeders.

There is a lot of foliage around - a plum tree and holly tree and want to leave established bushes for them!  Though the landlords may well rip

out!   HELP!  I feel terrible about this.  

  • 0 27/09/2021 13:16
    Hi Louise, how long do you have before leaving? If you have the time it maybe best to reduce feeding to encourage the birds to look elsewhere and be less reliant on you. As you think there is a chance that the landlords will remove trees etc do not put established shrubs - removal of hedging, shrubs and shelter areas etc causes more confusion and chaos than the removal of food.
    Sorry not to be of more help
  • 0 04/10/2021 14:18
    There was an article published a few years back, maybe by BTO, that said recently fledged birds using garden feeders did not survive as well because they had not learnt to forage for their own food. As for feeding Pheasants I try to discourage this at home as most of the Pheasants visiting our feeders are what the local shoot has released and I prefer not to feed birds for them to shoot