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13-05-2009, 07:15 PM
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| | | What type of bird would i expect to attract?
I have three feeders in my tree all within a foot or two of each other and one contains black sunflower, the other a wild bird food mix containing ingredients such as cut maize and various seeds and the other containing plain peanuts. I would particularlly like to know what the nuts would attract being in a nut-type feeder of course. Thanks. |
13-05-2009, 07:24 PM
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| | | Re: What type of bird would i expect to attract?
My nuts attract all sorts of tits, greenfinches, chaffinches - I use a hanging basket nut feeder but I also crush the nuts and place them on a table feeder where everything seems to eat them. 
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13-05-2009, 07:24 PM
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| | | Re: What type of bird would i expect to attract?
If you are lucky Greenfinches, Tits, Sparrows, Nuthatches, Woodpeckers, Siskins and not forgetting Squirrels!  |
13-05-2009, 07:27 PM
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| | | Re: What type of bird would i expect to attract?
Starlings too. |
13-05-2009, 07:30 PM
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| | | Re: What type of bird would i expect to attract?
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Originally Posted by Pam_M  If you are lucky Greenfinches, Tits, Sparrows, Nuthatches, Woodpeckers, Siskins and not forgetting Squirrels! | Oh lovley! But unfortunately my nut feeder has a cage around it, the squirrels might not be able to get to it. |
13-05-2009, 07:34 PM
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| | | Re: What type of bird would i expect to attract?
The greater the variety of seed types you put out, the greater variety of species you should attract. Different species of bird will take different seed types depending on bill size, de-husking method, nutritional value, method and time taken to process a seed. |
13-05-2009, 07:38 PM
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| | | Re: What type of bird would i expect to attract?
And it depends where you are in terms of countryside, houses, gardens, moorland, watery things etc etc - what you have nearby is what you will tend to attract.
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13-05-2009, 07:44 PM
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| | | Re: What type of bird would i expect to attract?
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Originally Posted by HanDiiMaNz Oh lovley! But unfortunately my nut feeder has a cage around it, the squirrels might not be able to get to it. | I wouldn't worry about the squirrels I am sure they will raid your other feeders instead! |
14-05-2009, 10:08 AM
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| | | Re: What type of bird would i expect to attract?
It's amazing what will tackle peanuts in a feeder esp if other feeders are empty, as well as the obvious titmice and GSW, we get many different finches, tree and house sparrows, blackbirds, robins, starlings. |
14-05-2009, 10:36 AM
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| | | Re: What type of bird would i expect to attract?
As you have a guard cage round the nuts only the smaller birds will go in, but what they discard falls to the ground and then blackbirds, doves, robins, dunnocks and woodpeckers will pick up and clean up for you! | | | |
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