How many bird feeders do you have up?

[willowjay]

We were thinking of picking some - there are black grapes which the starlings demolished in about a weekend, and white ones, which are now very ripe, very sweet. I occasionally look longingly at them, but, after all the pecking and, well, just messy birdiness of it all - we've decided to give up and let them have them this year ...

[Susie]

Ours were edible but not particularly sweet, I think they may be a pinot noir grape. I thought I might make some juice (or even wine) out of them but the juice tasted horrible so I didn't bother.

[willowjay]

And just this evening a small hedgehog trundled across the patio (the pergola with the grape vines is above it) - and munched his way through some mixed seed we put out for the birds (seed, crumbled fat balls, suet, etc) - and then went on to have his 'dessert' - white grapes that had fallen to the patio floor.

And a newcomer to my fat ball feeder - a male blackcap, not particularly agile, but a welcome addition to the birds that visit.