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Post by rowanberry on Aug 31, 2020 18:17:44 GMT
The sparrows have been piling themselves into the feeder every morning for the past week or so and hoovering up the birdseed almost immediately... someone knows Autumn is coming, I think.  Sparrows Aug2020 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr |
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Post by teasel on Sept 4, 2020 13:14:35 GMT
I have a flock of about 30 sparrows visiting now! There are about 3 of us nearby who feed them and they visit in turn.
What I find interesting is that when I first put up my feeders - about 3 years ago - I had one or two visitors from several types of bird. A couple of pairs of blue tits, a couple of great tits, some chaffinches, a robin, a blackbird, a dunnock as well as the magpies, starlings, pigeons etc. The the goldfinches came, and they bullied some of the others away and I put up cages to stop the larger birds eating me out of house and home. The goldfinches did well and increased in number, then the sparrows started arriving in ones and twos. Now I only seem to get sparrows, the odd goldfinch and one brave blue tit. Even the starlings rarely visit. I wonder what will happen over the winter . . .!
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Post by rowanberry on Sept 7, 2020 9:46:31 GMT
The sparrows do tend to take over... I put this feeder up in our front garden, else the other don't stand a chance.
In the back garden there's a sunflower hearts feeder and another for black shelled sunflower seeds; two nyger seed feeders and one peanut feeder, (and of course the bird table for the jays' monkey nuts.)
I've had to space them all out as much as possible, because that seems to give the robins, tits, and dunnocks more opportunity to get to the food.
They'll all eat from the peanut feeder, but the Greater Spotted Woodpecker sees off any competition whenever he arrives!
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Post by Psamathe on Sept 7, 2020 10:22:11 GMT
.... two nyger seed feeders and one peanut feeder,.... I never got on with nyger seeds. I got a good quality special feeder (clear plastic with small slots by the perches), added a tray underneath and the vast majority of seed ended-up i the tray where it got wet and rotted. I did get a few goldfinches feeding but they seemed to prefer sunflower seed hearts (where I got loads of goldfinches after switching). Ian |
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