Price of Nuts .... feed the birds tuppence a bag .....

the bag they came in , and staying in the kitchen well its warm dry and vermin free

 

I hope you continue to be vermin free with such a well stocked "pantry"

Only teasing - I think you are wonderful to invest in your local wildlife

 

on a dull day raining and windy and in they come , the Nuthatch is my favorite I can be 6 feet away from it now and it carries on feeding , my mum told me the story when I was 6 I went out into the garden and gave the birds a full box of porridge oats when every where was covered in snow

 

Aww, Spruce!!!!! What a wonderful person you already were at 6yo
(Did your mother explain to you about .... .... "bloat" ... ... )

My daughter, then aged around 6yo and a few days after a bonfire night back garden effort ... calmly walked into the lounge delicately holding in the cup of her hands, a manky, maggot infested, decomposing blackbird

She very gingerly walked right up to me carrying her precious cargo, thrust it under my nose, and ... put forward her genuine, childlike request:-

"Mummy: will you kiss it better, please?"



(As a mother, I believed I was good; as a person ... I knew ... I wasn't *that* good! )

So, as any reasonable parent would do ... I abdicated *any* responsibility; instructed her to "put it back: gently!" and to let God do what was best for it

If only she had asked me for oats ...

 

I've just ordered 25kg of suet pellets from an ebay seller for £16.70. They seem to be the most popular food with the birds in my garden. Peanuts go off before they are eaten and sunflower seeds are spat out?!

 

Hi Yvonne

do you put them in a feeder ? something I have never tried for the birds

 

Yes, I have two of these Guardman Feeders (which are very east to take apart and clean) and currently I have to fill them twice a day. Sorry to post this pic again