ALARMING........

Glad to see the romance is still there

 

Very low numbers here, mainly Great Tits and Blue Tits, usually get greater variation in species, in the past we have had Greater Spotted Woodpecker, Bullfinchs, Chaffinchs, Long Tailed Tits, Robins, just wondering if its the mild weather we are having ?

 

We got the usual but numbers are well down on last year it's saving me lots of money in not buying food

 

I'm thinking at the moment there are still lots of berries to be had in the countryside.

I've got a heron that likes to feed in my garden, if anyone wants him, I'll post him to you postage and packing free.

Mealworms?
What are they about, bought some for the robins, but they aren't interested, in fact nothing is.
Cant say I blame them as they seem to be mostly a dried up shell, nothing inside, but they cost the earth.
Some kind of racket perhaps???

 

Too many Owls here

 

They should have checked Dorset, can't sleep for em thumping on the roof

 

I could murder a crow

 

Oh yes please @Zigs! We've got three to four dozen in the trees opposite and the racket they make is horrendous at times.

 

Still not a lot of action on my feeders. I am having to throw seed away as the birds are not eating the seed, or peanuts. They are eating the fat cakes, but not the fat balls. I have tried 2 different seed mixes and still no interest. I put new feeders up about 6 weeks or so ago. They are the squirel proof seed feeders and are a different colour to the ones last year, but surely this can't be the problem.

Any ideas, as I don't want to keep throwing it away?
Rusty

 

@rustyroots have you got a bird table or just the feeders?I have both and find that some birds like tits prefer to eat from feeders,(fat balls and peanuts)and will sometimes use the bird table while the table is usually used by the Starlings,sparrows Robins and even a Dunnock at times.

My collared doves prefere the bird table and the square open tray that is attached to the pole,although at the moment a Woodpigeon is coming in to feed so the collared doves sit in my cherry tree waiting for him to have his fill.

I also have a square ground tray which the blackbirds like even more so when I put dried mealworms and value saltanas that I get form the supermarket.

Have you got trees and shrubs in your garden,as birds like somewhere to retreat to if there are birds of prey about.

I find that some birds are fussy about which fat balls I buy for them but when I got some better ones that the RSPB do the Starlings soon demolished them.

Any chance of some garden photos so we can see your set up so might be able to advise better.

PS,even the sparrows have learnt how good the fat balls and peanuts can be so have learnt how to cling on to the feeders so the blue tits now have to wait their turn