Office upgrade - now significantly more attractive to birds

[mrs quoad]

I have nailed a suet and mealworm half coconut to a tree that sits a short distance from my window.

I have some hopes that this will lure the recalcitrant magpies closer.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I'm not expert, and at the risk of sounding all John Torode-y...




There's too much going on there.

 

[mrs quoad]

Not even a peck mark on the coconut. Shitting magpies.

 

[Wookey]

I've got a peanut butter house hanging from a tree, they haven't found it yet - was on sale at Wilkies at 50p for the jar of butter and 50p for the little house it sits in... I just had to.

Last winter I had my fat balls out for months, not a sniff or a peck. But I got a mystery grass lawn underneath the tree I hung my fat balls from, not realizing the seeds were falling out in the weather and seeding of their own natural accord!

Blimmin nature!

 

[cybershot]

My feeding station has now been out for almost two weeks and still practically full. Think I need to add a bath type thing as well as I'm sure nearby water will bring them in.

 

[mrs quoad]

That’s been in our garden 3 hours!

 

[cybershot]

Finally

 

[mrs quoad]

0 birds.

And some dick end has half inched my coconut.

 

[Callie]

Could you put some large bread chunks down as a visual signal for 'big birdie dinner here' ?

 

[fishfinger]

0 birds.

And some dick end has half inched my coconut.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

0 birds

you need to get the word out

have you tweeted about it?

 

[planetgeli]

mrs quoad it looks a bit, erm, busy where you live. This might well be your problem. cybershot has a garden that looks like a garden. You look like you live in the middle of Düsseldorf.

 

[not-bono-ever]

squirrels rampage in my garden - nothing can stop their march. its a cursed earth for bird feeding

 

[farmerbarleymow]

We (the toddler and I) bought two sacks of carrion yesterday. (Well. Bags of “dried mealworm and shrimp.” Which smells pretty much as awful as the name suggests.)

I like the smell of mealworms.

 

[mrs quoad]

I like the smell of mealworms.

Mixed with shrimp?

If so, are you a cat?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I like the smell of mealworms.

They smell like fisherman’s maggots.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Mixed with shrimp?

If so, are you a cat?

Not with shrimp. Only freaks buy those together...

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I've got a peanut butter house hanging from a tree, they haven't found it yet - was on sale at Wilkies at 50p for the jar of butter and 50p for the little house it sits in... I just had to.

Last winter I had my fat balls out for months, not a sniff or a peck. But I got a mystery grass lawn underneath the tree I hung my fat balls from, not realizing the seeds were falling out in the weather and seeding of their own natural accord!

Blimmin nature!

Fat balls don't last long where I am in the city centre - the birds here have voracious appetites, being used to leftover kebabs and the like.

I've found that the birds round here don't like sunflower kernels - at all. By bye 7kg bag

But the green finches adore the whole seeds. They will trough through a feeder of seeds in less than an hour, making a hell of a racket - and mess.

 

[cybershot]

I get squirrels too, but they don't seem to bother with the bird feeding station. The one is a cage type thing anyway and I'd know if they were nicking the smaller seeds as it would be practically empty after a few hours.

I do put peanuts on the ground for the squirrels to mop up, if the crows or Magpies don't get to them first.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Last winter I had my fat balls out for months

 

[mrs quoad]

They’ve clocked it.

Now they’re trying to work out if I’m going to eat them up.

 

[mrs quoad]

MAgpie just totally went for it. Fucked it. But had a good go!

 

[mrs quoad]

Watching...

 

[mrs quoad]

Fat squirrel.

The fat magpie is cross.

 

[mrs quoad]

The fat magpie thinks I want to eat it all up.

The fat squirrel couldn’t give a fuck whether or not I want to eat it all up. It’s too busy stuffing its face.

 

[wiskey]

*sigh*

 

[mrs quoad]

There are now *two* fat magpies.

 

[bimble]

Magpies are evil,they eat baby birds and hoard food for later in case they run out of baby birds. If you get magpies you might not get much else, apart from the fat squirrel obvs.

 

[alan_]

There are now *two* fat magpies.

joy joy joy

 

[alan_]

I like the smell of mealworms.

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