A few years ago I bought my first window feeder for a second floor window and treated my birds to some live mealworms to encourage them to use it, which of course they loved. I see mainly see tits, blackcaps, robins and sparrows.
Down in the garden on the other side of the house there are suet, peanut and sunflower heart feeders and various bits in a caged feeder on the ground for the blackbirds, etc.
Basically, my window feeder has created a spoiled generation of birds used to their live mealworms all year round and they look horrified if I fill it with a mix of sunflower hearts and kibbled peanuts.
I’d like a break from touching mealworms, for financial and obvious reasons. So my silly question is: What is your food of choice in your window feeder and who do you see using it? If it’s seeds, do they use it in addition to hanging feeders, or have you had to put something different in the window feeder to encourage them?
Thanks for any replies and happy birdwatching!
Laura
Hi-
I used to use an RSPB coiled spring window feeder decades ago- Now I just put feeders about 6 feet from the window on a tree
S
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We use a sunflower heart chips, peanut, suet pellet mix from https://www.gardenwildlifedirect.co.uk/sunflower-heart-chips-peanut-granules-suet-pellets.html
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We get Great, Blue & Coal Tits, Chaffinch, Robin ......
Hi
i only got a window feeder about 6 weeks ago and it took them a little while to come , i was hoping to give the smaller birds a better chance when the big birds are in which has mostly worked apart from the occasional brave starling and once or twice seen the Jay hanging off it lol when I didn’t have enough nuts in the other feeder they use aha. I put split peanuts and some suet pellets in with a few black sunflower seeds. If i put too many suet pellets or even one mealworm the starlings would catch on and empty it completely the little pickles! Generally it’s the blue and great tits that are using it though . Will try to attach a still of the video I caught of the cheeky Jay .. oh yes I have also added a flutter butter feeder for windows above it which luckily I’ve only seen the tits eating from as gave up with the other flutter feeder I had as ..you guessed it ..starlings! it was gone in a day! I have come to surrender, accept and love and appreciate them (the starlings) now despite them being greedy gannets and costing me triple , just need to make sure the others get a look in too . Happy Birding