I know I am now going to get bombarded with people saying 'Dont cut down!, they expect a ready supply of food!' But 60% or more of my bird feeders have never ONCE been used.
So I have decided to keep only 6-7 feeders in the Garden.
I need your help to decide which ones to keep!
I have these:
phew...
And I will now tell you what birds i get :
Sorry for going on a bit, ;) Please awnser.
Coal
Birding , Birding, Birding !
oh and last week I had 2 goldfinches briefly but they didnt feed.
Hi Coal
I would make a start by temporarily getting rid of:
2 port sunflower seed feeder
1 suet feeder
the robin mix feeder
1 peanut feeder
Best wishes Chris
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Hi Coal,
Anything duplicated could come down until next winter, such as the small sunflower heart feeder and one peanut feeder. Personally, I don't offer black sunflower hearts although there are some mixed in with the seed mix I buy. I also don't offer any speciality mixes such as the robin or blue tit mix. All my birds are happy with sunflower hearts, a general no-cereal seed mix and peanut granules all mixed up together, plus I also supply nyjer. I suggest you take away the robin and bluetit mixes, and perhaps add them to your general seed mix. The birds will pick and chose which bits they like.
Cheers, Linda.
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Hello Coal
I've taken down some of my feeders too - we had a feeding station that we put in the hole for the parasol in our patio table (hope that makes sense!).
We now want to use the table for the summer so I've got rid of one mesh seed feeder .
I've put the peanut feeder down at the bottom of the garden and will put that away when it's empty.
We've just restocked with food - we've bought a very large bag of summer mix , peanuts and some more nyger seed as we are getting goldfinches regularly now.
Jazzcat