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  1. Linz

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    I picked up sunflower hearts :noidea: and niger feed hoping to attract more :fingers crossed: eh!
     
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      From memory Linz, they have a big beak and can only get in certain feeders, @strongylodon will tell us better :)
       
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        BTW good luck I do hope he/she returns :)
         
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          Might need to invest in a new feeder then! I only have 2 plastic ones with small holes, 1 cake cage and a fat ball feeder. I also put some different seeds and a few mealworms out in a bowl
           
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            I cant remember exactly what I read linz, it might have been the niger feeders with small slits, this type looks ok with the bigger hole.
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              I use bigger feeders with large feeding holes and even the pheasants can eat from them.

              The feed that I use is a mixed feed with a lot of black sunflower seeds and a fair amount of striped sunflower seeds (in the summer I buy a mix that has a lot of sunflower hearts but they rot too easily in the winter) and the mixture is:- (info taken from the supplier's website)

              Composition Black Sunflower Seeds, Striped Sunflower Seeds, Yellow Millet, Pinhead Oatmeal, White Sunflower Seeds, Kibbled Peanuts, Vegetable Oil
              Suitable Bird Type Blackbird, Blue Tit, Chaffinch, Tree Sparrow, Greenfinch, House Sparrow, Great Tit, Robin, Dunnock, Nuthatch, Redstart, Starling, Goldfinch, Coal Tit, Wren, Siskin

              We don't get Nuthatch or Redstart :noidea:. The blackbirds never feed from the feeder as they're happier feeding from what the others throw on the ground. With the large feeding holes there's plenty of scope for seed to fall out when the birds are feeding. The lazy or less agile birds are happy to pick up from the ground. Bullfinches, we have a few regulars, eat from the ground. The larger birds are able to eat from our big feeder as it's on a candelabra stand and they can stand on the crossbar.

              Lots of happy birds :hapydancsmil:

              By evening time when the mice might come out there is nothing left on the ground. We used to have bird tables but the local council asked us to take them away because they attracted the field rats. A sensible idea - although I was shooting the rats to keep them out of the garden, but wasn't happy doing so (they have a life to live as well).
               
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                If you have mice you don't get rats and if you have rats you don't get mice
                 
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                  I have never seen a Bullfinch on nyjer (niger) seed feeders but they might, they are mainly fruit and flower bud eaters, hated by orchard growers. They will eat most seed.
                  Considering the size of the bird their beak is relatively small.:smile:
                   
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                    I have been throwing out the wrinkly apples and plums onto the lawn, maybe that's why it came? But he(she) was in next doors laburnum tree, not feeding off my food :noidea: I have planted a few fruit trees in the last year so I may need to net them up when they get going!

                    Just looked at my seed mixes one is wheat, red dari, split maize, sunflower, millet and split pea. The other is cut wheat pinhead oatmeal, kibbled maize, flaked naked oat red dari, sunflower hearts and peanut granules. Then I have a bag of sunflower hearts, bag of niger, bag of mealsworms (mostly for my chickens) suet cakes and berry logs and then some bog standard fat balls.. also gave them a half of a hentastic cinnamon and spice chick stick as I ran out of the logs just before xmas.. they loved it!
                     
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                      He came back :smile: (on the fence, yes I'm rubbish at taking pics..) 20170112_145743.jpg
                       
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                        Great :), best I can do with him.
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                          Aw thanks!
                           
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                            Was really thrilled this morning, I put out some big bits of ham fat on my birdtable and not long after I noticed a Woodpecker feasting on it:dancy:. We have a small wood and I've regularly heard a Woodpecker hammering away in it but never got close enough to see it. In the 15 yers we've been here I have never attracted a Woodpecker to the bird table so was delighted. Any suggestions as to what I might put out after the ham is finished?
                             
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                              :yes: :hapydancsmil: :yahoo:

                              You're not rubbish at taking photos ... I saw him straight away! Well done, Chum :thumbsup:
                               
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                                Some more :), they love Suet peanuts and black oil sunflower seeds,

                                Fruit is another food happily consumed by most woodpeckers. Cut up oranges and apples are especially attractive and contain a lot of nutrients important for this active bird's health :)
                                 
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