List The Bird Feeders Please?!

Hi Coal

Most of mine are from Jacobi Jayne

Seed feeders; Peanut feeders; Niger seed feeders; Blu Glass dish; Mealworm/Suet cake Guardian; Ground feeders; Half Coconut suet feeders, RSPB Suet cake feeder, Tub cake feeder

All of the finches eat either Niger or Sunflower seed from hanging feeders. The tits eat sunflower mixture and peanuts.

I put Sun Drops in the Blue Glass dish and the tits or the Nuthatches take those. I also put live mealworms in the Guardian and the tits and the Nuthatches take those as well.

Starlings and others have to make do with a ground type feeder on the fence, and a larger one on the ground or the suet type food.

Hi Coal,

I have 2 x  6 port sunflower heart feeders for the finches, plus a 20 port flocker and a small 4 port, both for nyjer seed, also for the finches.

I have a sparrows corner with a mesh tray mounted on the fence, one 4 port hanger, both with my own mix of seed, plus a tub-cake holder and tub-cake (suet mix). Sparrows, dunnocks, starlings, robins, coal tits, chaffinches.

I have a tall bird table with a mix of suet pellets, raisins and my seed mix, and a fat ball holder. Pigeons, jackdaws, starlings.

I have another fence-mounted mesh tray next to a caged hanger (rarely used) both containing my seed mix, and a hanger with peanut granules in, and a fat cake in a holder. Sparrows, starligs, blue tits, coal tits, blackbirds sometimes.

I have a guardian feeder with mealworms in, but nothing uses it.

I also have a ground feeder on the front lawn with suet pellets, raisins and a few nut granules. Used by all sorts, mainly blackbirds, starlings, jackdaws, coal tits.

I also scatter soaked mealworms in the flower pots, wall baskets and on the ground. They all eat these.

Hi coal,

I chop and change things about, but in general this is my list

• Two x mixed seed feeders, House Sparrow, Blue tits, great tits, sometimes the robin
• One nyger seed 4 port feeder goldfinches
• two sunflower heart feeders, goldfinches, greenfinch, blue tits and sometimes robin
• one large ground tray
• one small ground tray both used by pigeons, doves, starlings, magpies, robin, sparrows
• One bird table, suet cake and mixed seed and scraps, used by all those that used ground feeders so not sure why i bother.
• one suet cake holder used all winter by blue tits and woodpecker, bit now by starlings and this is robins current favourite,
• one guardian feeder with mealworms which nothing has yet used but have not give up hope.

God that sounds a lot when all typed out.  I have changed my mixed seed to no grow variety and sparrows are not happy and are now eating off the ground!!!!

My reason for this was the crop of barley i now have in my border!

Sarah

I have two sunflower heart feeders which attract:

- greenfinches

- robins

- goldfinches

- chaffinches

- bullfinches

- blue tits

 - sparrows

Before I had these I had a peanut feeder which was visited by:

- greenfinches

- chaffinches

- starlings

- blue tits

- coal tits

- long-tailed tits

 - most of these now prefer the sunflower hearts and ignored the peanuts so I replaced the peanuts with RSPB buggy nibbles - only ever seen starlings eating these. Also have only ever seen starlings on the suet ball feeder.

Finally, I have a ground feeder which is used by:

- robins

- blackbirds

- starlings

- woodpigeons

- collared doves

One thing I don't have is a bird table - am I missing out on any species by not having one? Any ideas?

One thing I don't have is a bird table - am I missing out on any species by not having one? Any ideas?

Hi Somethingforadreamer.

Although I like my birdtable. There is nothing that uses it that does not feed elsewhere.  My main reason for getting it was to keep bramble away from scraps as these she feels belong to her not the birds.

Sarah

Find that Sparrow,Collared Dove both prefer feeding from table also strangely Robin,Blackbird and Chaffinch all spend what I find surprising amount of time on ours as it only has no mess mixture on it which is just a mixture of small seeds,no mealworm in it.