Don't forget the birds

[Bluepete]

Yep, nuts, fat balls, seeds, meal worms, water, I'll eat the lot!

I even leave some for the birds.

We have six feeders, so plenty of food for all.

Pete

[maviczap]

Put a feeder up on Sunday, but none of the daft birds round our way have found it yet

The ****ehawks don't like the fat balls thank goodness

[Spiderman]

How do you guys prevent the water from icing up tho? I'm curious.

I'm assuming anti freeze wont be good for the birds somehow.

[Littlepeahead]

Just give them vodka

[Spiderman]

haha, i'd love to see that!

We stick bird food out as much as we can, got a few cheeky dunnocks and house sparrers around, a fat robin that chases off a skinny one and the odd woodpigeon, magpie and blackbird, although the blackbird tends to hog the coconut with seed in until chased off by something bigger

Originally Posted by Messie

c. Birds can fly, she can't

She mightn't have wings but she no doubt has springs in her legs and I bet she can jump pretty high and pounce on them if she so set her mind to it

Originally Posted by Spiderman

How do you guys prevent the water from icing up tho? I'm curious.
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Put it out fresh every day if you have the time.

Bread crumbs are always welcome. If you have any leftover fat from cooking sausages, bacon etc. then add seeds and any other titbits you can find to that in a pan and let it solidify then leave it in a dish outside. Also if you're really looking for something to do then get a block of lard and mix it with nuts, seeds, bacon bits etc. and stick that in a plastic disposable cup (obviously not polystyrene), half a plastic bottle or similar and the birds will love it

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by amnesia

I don't think owning cats and then putting food out for the birds is such a good idea.

No cats in my garden

Guess what kind of bird I am?

I read the thread and thought thats a good point I`ve totally forgotten about the birds so half an hour ago I went out and piled up the feeder. I`ve just realised it`s night time, there won`t be any birds about

[Bibio]

ok i'm no vet buuuut, why do people give birds 'fat balls' i always thought that birds have hearts and artery's. so by doing this, dont you lessen their life span by giving them fat?

[DarrenSV650S]

Originally Posted by Messie

In this freezing whether don't forget our native birds and visitors who are trying to survive.

There may be no fresh water available for them, and other sources of food may be covered. Put some water out and some food. It can be prepared birds seeds or fat balls, but maybe you have nuts left over from Christmas, or fruit that no-ones going to eat, or even some old bran flakes, which, lets face it, you're really not going to eat, are you?

Have a llok here if you want to know more
http://www.rspb.org.uk/news/details.asp?id=tcm:9-238241

**** the birds!