Peanuts

[smartie]

I keep a small mesh peanut feeder up all year, but no-one is taking much from it at present. Like others, I am finding that the fat blocks are much in demand just now. Mostly tired parents stocking up on an easy meal for themselves after meeting the demands of their chicks, I think. But there was a robin there today pecking bits off the block and feeding them to a greedy (and very large) youngster.

Sunflower hearts are also going just as fast as they did in the winter.

[Gaina]

We only use fat balls, 'beetle cakes' and mealworms in the breeding season. I'd rather spend a bit more than risk chicks dying.

Actually, on a lighter note we have one bluetit who comes in the winter mornings, rips a whole peanut out of the hanger and eats it in the tree

[buzfuz8149]

I feed sunflower hearts, suet, fat balls and peanut bits all year round and from April to August I have meal worms in my feeder to help with the young.

I find the peanut bits are a favourite of the starlings especially at this time - they also take more suet and use my garden as a pit stop to fill up and have a bath. My feeders and pots are emptied most days at the moment.
I am looking at the scene now and the peanut bits are all gone, so has the suet, there are a few bits of fat balls left, that will give them a start tomorrow - till I fill everything up.

Carol.