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marvellous vanishing bird food...
Posted 31-01-2008 at 03:11 PM by almostnormal
Just before Christmas I relocated to Northumberland, to a lovely farm cottage about a mile from Hadrian's Wall. The cottage is surreounded by open farmland and pine woodlands and moorland. Its great. Behind the house is a stand of Scots pine and in this there are some lovely red squirrls and lots of lovely birdies.
Which is brilliant, we've got chaffinches, great tits, blue tits, coal tits, gret spotted woodpeckers and bramblings, and siskins. Gt o love the fact that these flock around our feeders in groups of 50 or so birds. Its ace. What it also is is expensive. Very very expensive. My house mate buys the seed food in at £15 a sack, and they go through two sacks evey month. It doesn't sound a lot I know, but we're talking roughly 50kg of bird food a month, plus about 25kg of peanuts. I'm quite frankly amazed they can even get of the ground!
However, the vanishing bird food. I filled the feeders up with sunflower hearts the other day. Right to the top, no clear plastic showing or anything. Whe I got back into the cottage and went to see if the birds had found the feeders again there was 2incehs of clear plastic!!! How do they manage to eat 2inches of food in the few measly minutes it took to get back into the house and take of my wellies??
Mind you this is all well worth it, I'd rather have the brambling eating me out of house and home than not have them at all!
Which is brilliant, we've got chaffinches, great tits, blue tits, coal tits, gret spotted woodpeckers and bramblings, and siskins. Gt o love the fact that these flock around our feeders in groups of 50 or so birds. Its ace. What it also is is expensive. Very very expensive. My house mate buys the seed food in at £15 a sack, and they go through two sacks evey month. It doesn't sound a lot I know, but we're talking roughly 50kg of bird food a month, plus about 25kg of peanuts. I'm quite frankly amazed they can even get of the ground!
However, the vanishing bird food. I filled the feeders up with sunflower hearts the other day. Right to the top, no clear plastic showing or anything. Whe I got back into the cottage and went to see if the birds had found the feeders again there was 2incehs of clear plastic!!! How do they manage to eat 2inches of food in the few measly minutes it took to get back into the house and take of my wellies??
Mind you this is all well worth it, I'd rather have the brambling eating me out of house and home than not have them at all!
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 |  Nice to see you're back on WAB, almostnormal! I look forward to reading about the birds and other wildlife up in Northumberland (I don't know it very well, but I know it's a beautiful area). |
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| |  Ahh...so thats where you've been then. Good to see you back. |
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| |  I lived up there for a while - in Haydon Bridge, so have very fond memories of the area. I look forward to hearing about my old stomping grounds. Rob |
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