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12-11-2010, 12:47 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harpenden, Herts
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| | | Apples on feeders
Just put out some cheap apples I got from Sa1nsbury's on my feeders, wonder what birds I will get? Woodpeckers would be nice, Waxwings even better  I'll let you know what happens...
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12-11-2010, 12:53 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Hayes, Middlesex
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| | | Re: Apples on feeders
Leave some on the ground as well you might see Redwing & Fieldfare.
If you left apples out down here the Parakeets would have them :-) |
12-11-2010, 12:58 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Near Peterborough
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| | | Re: Apples on feeders
Yes did you see on autumn watch those waxwings eating the apples from the boy's hands!! Amazing, truly a lifetime experiance I'd have thought.
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12-11-2010, 01:13 PM
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| | | Re: Apples on feeders
There's a link on here to those pics, Gill, take a look at the 'Waxwing watch' thread.
Yes, I put some on the ground but they have gone already, suspect the little grey varmints 
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12-11-2010, 01:19 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: n.e.somerset
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| | | Re: Apples on feeders
Black birds like the apple quarters.So do Collard doves.
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12-11-2010, 01:25 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Aviemore
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| | | Re: Apples on feeders
I impale them on the ends of branches on my Rowans. Blackbirds and Starlings are the most likely, but I've also seen Fieldfares and Redwings eat them.
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12-11-2010, 01:36 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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| | | Re: Apples on feeders
I buy the waste apples from a supermarket, using a wire coathanger suitably cut, I hang a couple in the tree. When there are other ground feeders about I put quartered or chopped apples out on the ground.
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12-11-2010, 04:22 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Jul 2009
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| | | Re: Apples on feeders
it's mainly thrushes and pigeons that will eat them, but i've seen just about everything have a go at the ones i've put out in the past, including tits, finches and robins. |
12-11-2010, 08:27 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Hemel Hempstead Herts
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| | | Re: Apples on feeders
thats not a bad idea , i might get some over the weekend , but im sure the squirells will have them as well...
im going to give it ago and see what happens... | | |
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