What is your favourite birdfeeder?

birdsfavor · #1 (**permalink**) 21-08-2007, 07:54 AM

The history of birdfeeder is short, it is about 20-30 years. However, it become popularer and popularer. In my garden, I saw lovely hummingbird many time, and I set a humming bird feeder filled with sugar water, I hope this could attract more and more birds to visit my garden. Which kind of feeder you use now or before and how about it?

paulchandler6 · #2 (**permalink**) 21-08-2007, 09:14 AM

I dont particularly have a favourite type of feeder. I guess you dont live in the UK as we dont get hummingbirds here.

The predominant feeders here are nut and seed feeders which are also used in the US as well (I'm assuming thats where you are?). I tend to use a diversity of feeders ranging from hanging nut and seed feeders to a ground feeder to attempt to attract a wide range of species. I also put out fresh and dried fruits in the winter which Thrushes seem to go for. As well as using a mixture of seed types. Also live food such as meal worms. Cheers

goosey · #3 (**permalink**) 21-08-2007, 01:02 PM

Like Paul I use a variety of feeders to attract different birds. My favourite though is a square mesh ground feeder, it drains any rain water so the food doesn't become water logged, is heavy enough to stop corvids tipping it over when they land on it and keeps the ground tidy

. No hummingbirds here either

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Jez · #4 (**permalink**) 22-08-2007, 03:43 PM

This too is one of mine! A lot of birds use this i.e Blackbirds, song thrush, robins, Chaffinches, Nuthatches,Pigeons & pheasants mainly. I do have in mind a unique squirrel proof feeder would love to be able make it, but i'm not so skilled!

jdurbo · #5 (**permalink**) 22-08-2007, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Jez

This too is one of mine! A lot of birds use this i.e Blackbirds, song thrush, robins, Chaffinches, Nuthatches,Pigeons & pheasants mainly. I do have in mind a unique squirrel proof feeder would love to be able make it, but i'm not so skilled!

And this keeps the food dry?
jen xxx

kshotton45 · #6 (**permalink**) 22-08-2007, 09:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Jez

This too is one of mine! A lot of birds use this i.e Blackbirds, song thrush, robins, Chaffinches, Nuthatches,Pigeons & pheasants mainly. I do have in mind a unique squirrel proof feeder would love to be able make it, but i'm not so skilled!

Send me the plans ! I'll make it. I'm getting pretty desperate to beat the little monsters! I've staked my reputation on beating them. If explosives are needed - no problem. I've already tried landmines but they keep taking the fuses out !

Keith.

naturelover · #7 (**permalink**) 22-08-2007, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by birdsfavor

The history of birdfeeder is short, it is about 20-30 years. However, it become popularer and popularer. In my garden, I saw lovely hummingbird many time, and I set a humming bird feeder filled with sugar water, I hope this could attract more and more birds to visit my garden. Which kind of feeder you use now or before and how about it?

hi sorry but you got that wrong there are no humming birds here only humming bird moth,i recon thats what you have been feeding sugar water.

NigelT · #8 (**permalink**) 25-08-2007, 10:13 PM

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Originally Posted by naturelover

hi sorry but you got that wrong there are no humming birds here only humming bird moth,i recon thats what you have been feeding sugar water.

Bird feeders

! I have a table, fat balls in a hanging basket, a hanging table, a ball filled with peanuts, a dish fixed to the trellis for wild bird food and have just aquired a feeder that i can put thistle seeds in to try and get finches into the garden.

Which do I like best? can't say

, the ball is visited by jays, woodpeckers, the table by doves and wood pidgeons, and the number of sparrows and dunnucks on the hanging table etc. are fun to watch tho' I'm worried about the sparrow hawk that has started to appear regularly

!

Varan Komodosky · #9 (**permalink**) 25-08-2007, 11:17 PM

Hi Nigel, I'm 50 and I can remember when I was a little boy I used to make peanut feeders, theading together the shells also my mum used to hang strips of suet, coconut shells and fruit out for the birds. She told me she used to do it when she was a little girl and she's nearly 80!
The sparrow hawk needs to eat too you know.

kshotton45 · #10 (**permalink**) 26-08-2007, 11:38 AM

My favourite feeder is the 'Nutosphere'. It's the one that I thought would be the most vunerable to Squirrels, but it has proved to be just the opposite. They've never come close to getting in, and all they have to do is to lift the lid!
The feeder far left is a mix of peanuts and suet pellets. The next is full of peanuts - this is the one that is the most vunerable to Squirrels. The long one is filled with sunflower hearts, it's the spring loaded one and all that the Squirrels can do is to throw it off the pegs! I've stopped this by putting the 2nd 'Nutoshpere' at the end and this seems to have worked ! Simple eh! The sphere on the right contains a mix a la jens recipe, this is very popular, but it has to be mixed to a 'stiff' mixture so that as they eat it , it collapses outwards towards the mesh - too solid and they can't get at it.
This photo is from this morning, we were raided by a flock of 50 - 60 Starlings ! The one on the feeder refused to move even as I walked towards him, I think he's addicted to jens mix !

Keith.