Hungry birds in my back garden.

[papasmurf]

It's certainly best not to deliberately feed wood pigeons. They can find their own.

I am not feeding the wood pigeons. They are too big to access the food in the feeders. The villages seem to be infested with them, and the collared doves, and various types of corvid. I don't see magpies very often.
Oddly no many gulls.

[Borg Refinery]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk-TDI5gVIQ

[Nick]

It's certainly best not to deliberately feed wood pigeons. They can find their own.

While we're on birds, if you have a Smart phone, try the "Merlin" app which can ID birds from their sounds using your phone mike.

If you can hear them , I can just about hear the tick of a Wren, my hearing is pretty 💩 due to years in industry. I'll never admit that to the wife though. Ha ha 🤣 

[Barry]

It's certainly best not to deliberately feed wood pigeons. They can find their own.

While we're on birds, if you have a Smart phone, try the "Merlin" app which can ID birds from their sounds using your phone mike.

[Nick]

Ive spent the morning cleaning the Pigeon shit off the hopper that they try nesting in . Anyone feeding those bastards around here will get their future read to them

We don't actually feed them, we put food out for the whole community. I apologise, I got it wrong, they are Collared Doves that come to our buffet, not flying Rats. The Doves don't seem to soil the patio as I recall, not that I'm actually ever there. 

[Streetwalker]

Ive spent the morning cleaning the Pigeon shit off the hopper that they try nesting in . Anyone feeding those bastards around here will get their future read to them 

[Nick]

I have increased the number of bird feeders in my back garden to three due to an increase in bird numbers. They have eaten a 12.5 kilo bag of wild bird seed in five days. I will have to go an replenish supplies tomorrow morning.
(Other neighbours  having a similar "problem.")
The feeders I have will only let small birds feed. Other than small birds a largish number of various Corvids have turned up including Jackdaws.  Then there are pigeons and collared doves.
My back garden is a bit of a jungle.

Who puts over 2Kg of bird seed out every day? We have a load of Wood Pigeons that come every day and a sack of seed lasts at least a month. 

[Nick]

That's a lot of seed.
Our feeders have seed, sunflower hearts, niger seeds and fat balls. The sunflower hearts have up to 8 goldfinches at a time. We love them.
Other birds are blue tits, great tits, jackdaws, crows, an odd sparrow. We also had 2 green woodpeckers this morning but they don't eat off the feeders, they eat ants on the grass.
My wife found a Jay's feather under the feeders last week, but we've not seen one in the garden.

If you have Jay's the other birds will soon bugger off, they are nasty pieces of work. 

[Barry]

That's a lot of seed.
Our feeders have seed, sunflower hearts, niger seeds and fat balls. The sunflower hearts have up to 8 goldfinches at a time. We love them.
Other birds are blue tits, great tits, jackdaws, crows, an odd sparrow. We also had 2 green woodpeckers this morning but they don't eat off the feeders, they eat ants on the grass.
My wife found a Jay's feather under the feeders last week, but we've not seen one in the garden.

[papasmurf]

I have increased the number of bird feeders in my back garden to three due to an increase in bird numbers. They have eaten a 12.5 kilo bag of wild bird seed in five days. I will have to go an replenish supplies tomorrow morning.
(Other neighbours  having a similar "problem.")
The feeders I have will only let small birds feed. Other than small birds a largish number of various Corvids have turned up including Jackdaws.  Then there are pigeons and collared doves.
My back garden is a bit of a jungle.