Victim of my own success

[Nickynockynoonoo]

Since I began seriously feeding the birds, other than chucking out bits of bread etc., I have had a huge success. We now have goldfinches, blackbirds, chaffinches, tits, song thrushes and a few million starlings!

It has been lovely to watch the baby starlings come to feed, firstly being fed by their parents and then quickly learning to feed themselves. I put home made fat cake out in wicker basket horns. Very easy pickings. Too easy I think. I am making approx 1.5Kg per day. I'm filling up the baskets twice per day.

I do not want the birds to totally rely upon this food source. My thought are; to introduce shop bought fat balls beside the baskets so they get used to them and then cutting down the home made. I don't want to only put out so much and say when its gone, its gone because the non-bullies won't get a look in.

A friend told me that it will tail off when the babies grow up? Not so sure.

Oh, our song thrushes eat from a basket too. Lovely to watch and nice to see that we have red listed visitors. Very important birds(VIBs)