Would you like prawn craclers with your birds nest ?

[Sixsquid]

I love the sound of the birds in my garden, even if they do think 4am is a good time to get up and I have 2 resident Robins who are bold little cuties.

So ... I have a table right outside my kitchen window where I can enjoy watching them. I put all sorts on there, including leftovers, as birds like a wide variety of foodstuff and if they can fly all over the world they're old enough to decide what to eat and what not to eat.

I put uneaten and old bits of fruit, crackers, biscuits & crisps that have gone stale, left cat food, the 'crumbs' in cereal bags amongst other things. I also sometimes make bird food cakes. The cat food goes very quickly and while other stuff disappears I'm sometimes not sure which bird likes what or whether it's just the wind

Well, this morning a Magpie was frequenting the bird table, flying off with great gusto when I went by the kitchen window, but then I caught him. He was nipping back to steal the prawn crackers

Maybe Magpies spend many months visiting China Anyone else know which birds prefer what on their tables

[hebails]

Originally Posted by Sixsquid

I love the sound of the birds in my garden, even if they do think 4am is a good time to get up and I have 2 resident Robins who are bold little cuties.

So ... I have a table right outside my kitchen window where I can enjoy watching them. I put all sorts on there, including leftovers, as birds like a wide variety of foodstuff and if they can fly all over the world they're old enough to decide what to eat and what not to eat.

I put uneaten and old bits of fruit, crackers, biscuits & crisps that have gone stale, left cat food, the 'crumbs' in cereal bags amongst other things. I also sometimes make bird food cakes. The cat food goes very quickly and while other stuff disappears I'm sometimes not sure which bird likes what or whether it's just the wind

Well, this morning a Magpie was frequenting the bird table, flying off with great gusto when I went by the kitchen window, but then I caught him. He was nipping back to steal the prawn crackers

Maybe Magpies spend many months visiting China Anyone else know which birds prefer what on their tables

Most of the ones I've met prefer French. Preferably with a couple of Michelin stars to boot

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by hebails

Most of the ones I've met prefer French. Preferably with a couple of Michelin stars to boot

nah a real classy bird likes Burger king .


back to the OP


the tits that visit the food we put out prefer fatballs to anything else. the magpies get short shrift and are shifted on quickly.

there is a 'pecking order' too between the birds.

[Gram43]

We get all kinds of birds at the feeders outside our kitchen, including one the other week thet resembled a large brown RAT. It was sat in the bush and was furiously tucking into the fat balls we leave for our feathered friends.
After attempting to scare it a few times I resorted to a piece of 2 x 2 with nails in, which was thrown at it quite accurately and it's never been back.

This time of the year they should be finding their own grub, however, in the main they like anything seedy and nutty, including the woodpeckers we get.

[purple vonny]

are you expecting sensible replies?

[hebails]

Originally Posted by purple vonny

are you expecting sensible replies?

on this forum? Do you really need to ask Vonny??

[Sixsquid]

Originally Posted by dry suit diver

there is a 'pecking order' too between the birds.

Yes and the robins are well up high I'm not over enamoured with the magpies and we have loads around here but mostly I get tits, blackbirds (male only) collared doves and Robins at my table.

When I work out what the big 'uns like (like the Magpeis) I'll put that somewhere else in the garden. Well, my table's quite old and has already undergone a number of repairs It's always been popular .....

Originally Posted by purple vonny

are you expecting sensible replies?

Either and both. I'm easy

[Dave Crampton]

Originally Posted by Sixsquid

Anyone else know which birds prefer what on their tables

Skantily clad Top Heavy Lovelys, dancing around the poll I've just had installed...

[hebails]

I can't wait to move out of our urban jungle to the countryside.
SWMBO's parents live where it's green and they have so many visitors to their bird table (including a woodpecker)
It's quite relaxing to watch them just chirping away and munching but there is also a pidgeon that's discovered the delights of the table. I think you'd struggle to find a fatter pidgeon anywhere. It's so big now it can't even perch on the table and has taken to picking about at the bottom of the table for whatever falls off.

[dry suit diver]

Originally Posted by Dave Crampton

Skantily clad Top Heavy Lovelys, dancing around the poll I've just had installed...

oooh how do we vote in this poll, its not attached yet