Saturday, 2 March 2019

Bird food

Staggered in from town yesterday lunch time with a bag of books and a bag of various bird foods. Husband gets up from settee to make me coffee and says "Wait".  "Check the bird feeder before you go out there with the meal worms and seed".

Why?

"There was a sparrow hawk sitting on the top 5 mins ago."

Err, what am I feeding?


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8 comments:

  1. Sue2 March 2019 at 16:31

    We didn't put any seed out last week because we had seen bear tracks in the snow and we didn't want to provide a temptation. I just did a walk all around the property and didn't find any more tracks, so we're going to risk putting out some seed again. This past fall a short term fine was put into effect in a town a little north from here for people that left their bird feeders out - they were having so much trouble with bears going after the seed!

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    1. TrishWish2 March 2019 at 20:22

      Gosh. Bears. We only have hares and muncjac deer (very small).

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  2. AnjiDot2 March 2019 at 16:56

    all we get is the blooming pigeons who demolish it all in about 5 minutes flat !

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    1. TrishWish2 March 2019 at 20:20

      We have 3 pigeons so fat they can barely walk. I try to frighten them away if I see them under the feeder cleaning up

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  3. crafty cat corner2 March 2019 at 17:16

    That will keep the little one's away for a bit. I remember when we had the allotment a kestrel whooshed down and took a starling off, we hardly heard it it was so quiet. Luckily the starling managed to get free.
    Briony
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    1. TrishWish2 March 2019 at 20:20

      We have one of them as well. Surprised sparrows survive.

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  4. Living Alone in Your 60's2 March 2019 at 23:41

    We get quite a variety of birds in our new garden. We only got seagulls in our other house.

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  5. Jackie3 March 2019 at 02:27

    I usually just throw seed into a small bowl on the deck. We only every get sparrows in the winter.

    God bless.

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