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Old 04-02-12, 07:24 PM   #1
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Don't forget to feed them. Hang out some feeders, sweep away a patch of snow and put out some scraps and some fresh water which you need to keep topped up when it freezes.

They'll repay you by eating the slugs and grubs in summer.
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Old 04-02-12, 07:43 PM   #2
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Well said. I'll pass on your message to the Mrs.
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Old 04-02-12, 07:52 PM   #3
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Topped off my feeders this afternoon in readiness.
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Always keep them topped up feeders / table near the window so I can watch when bored.
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Old 04-02-12, 08:14 PM   #5
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I feed them all the time but I know when there's a few inches of snow outside and you are staying tucked up in the warm it can be easy to forget our little feathered friends.

I've just cleared out the fridge while I defrost the freezer and tomorrow morning they can have all the cheese, ham and fruit bread that is a day or two out of date as well as their usual seed and suet mix.
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Right down here on the south coast we have no snow, I wish the birds would eat from our feeders, they always end up having to have the old rotten food emptied out before we refill them. Any ideas how to make the birds eat from our feeders, we have a lovely mature garden, I suppose it could be that they get enough from the trees and bushes anyway.
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The only time we have not had birds feeding was at a different house and that was due to cats.
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Right down here on the south coast we have no snow, I wish the birds would eat from our feeders, they always end up having to have the old rotten food emptied out before we refill them. Any ideas how to make the birds eat from our feeders, we have a lovely mature garden, I suppose it could be that they get enough from the trees and bushes anyway.
What are you putting in the feeders? Peanuts go rotten here before they get all eaten but the mixed seed seems to go down well. Try suet balls, meal worms or perhaps the flavoured suet pellets. When I put out insect flavour pellets (they have chopped up meal worms in them by the looks of it) it is chaos outside as the birds fight to get on the feeders! Just make sure the tree rats* cannot get to them.




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With us peanuts go quickly (yesterdays have gone, the collared doves eat the lot) on the main bird table but not the hanging baskets or hanging table.
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