Blackbirds trying to be blue tits!

[Cowgirl]

Our local blackbirds are going mad for the fat balls (well more plastic cup shaped stuffed in a vertical feeder (What do you guys use as moulds?) that I make, once they've finished the table one, they then try & hang off the feeder like a blue tit. They haven't quite got it right yet & keep falling off with a quickly grabbed beakful, but it's quite funny to watch.

Course they only do it when my phone's elsewhere so I cant get a picture.

Anyone else's do this?

[Dae]

at our previous property our blackbirds were also nuts about the fatballs and suet, so we purposefully put one of our suet feeders wedged in the branches of a tree so it could reach it easier. However, they weren't opposed to hanging off the edge when they couldn't reach a bit.

[ricwine]

I make a fat ball in a cocunut shell. Which has about one quarter removed . This makes a nice dome where the contents are protected from the elements. But you 'will' not get may secret super fatball recipe.

Greater spotted woodpeckers are hanging of it several times a day. Long tailed tits as sell , if there are enough upto 6 will perch all around the edges sharing there meal.

Blackbirds are still learning and they just fly up and grab a beak full. As well as Great tits and Blue tits who perch alone. Robins occasionaly grab a quick snack.

Unfortunately we have a major squirrel problem so the fat balls cannot be left out. At the moment the cocunut hangs off a 'squirrel proof' hook system from a particlarly bendy branch. So the squirrels have taken to launching them selves at the cocunut. Which may knock some of the contents out and onto the ground. Still there must be easier ways to get an meal .