How to attract birds into your garden.

Other non Stranglers stuff here

Moderator: StanInBlack

User avatar
PaulinLondon
Maninwhite
Maninwhite
Posts: 11141
Joined: 03 Jan 2006, 12:42
Location: Mon - Fri : Thunderbird 5.

How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by PaulinLondon »

Any thoughts ?

:smt069
"Madame, Be in no doubt as to the seriousness of your position". The Day of the Jackal, 1973.
User avatar
parasiteinblack
ManinBlack
ManinBlack
Posts: 3538
Joined: 26 Nov 2003, 11:57
Location: Norwich
Contact:

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by parasiteinblack »

I heard fat balls were supposed to be good. :smt069
"I woke up on a good day, and the world was wonderful"
User avatar
PaulinLondon
Maninwhite
Maninwhite
Posts: 11141
Joined: 03 Jan 2006, 12:42
Location: Mon - Fri : Thunderbird 5.

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by PaulinLondon »

parasiteinblack wrote: 22 Jul 2017, 21:15 I heard fat balls were supposed to be good. :smt069
Thank you.

:smt069
"Madame, Be in no doubt as to the seriousness of your position". The Day of the Jackal, 1973.
Summer Dreamer
VERSATRAN SERIES F
Posts: 230
Joined: 24 Mar 2011, 16:35

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by Summer Dreamer »

A stone bird bath would offer a drink as well as a bath, thus "killing two birds with one stone".
'Scaffolding pays good bread'
User avatar
porkymeat
The Man They Love To Hate
Posts: 810
Joined: 12 Jul 2012, 20:16

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by porkymeat »

Sunflower hearts in hanging feeders will get the finches in. Those little black niger seeds are supposed to work as well, but I've never had any success with them. General seed mix for things like dunnocks, blackbirds, sparrows either on a bird table or on the ground. Make sure you don't make them sitting targets for cats.
I'll even let you drive my motorbike . . .
airflamesred
The Man They Love To Hate
Posts: 655
Joined: 06 Apr 2017, 22:36
Location: Hammersmiff

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by airflamesred »

2 for 1 and/or a big 'Sale' sign, will have them flocking!
jason
Man Of The Earth
Man Of The Earth
Posts: 9624
Joined: 02 Oct 2008, 15:34
Location: Kent

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by jason »

How about some bottles of Prosseco, boxes of Thornton chocolates and a bit of Simply Red playing in the background?
User avatar
Rockula
The Raven
The Raven
Posts: 2177
Joined: 30 Jan 2011, 18:31
Location: Hornchurch, Essex.

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by Rockula »

Fat balls work best in Winter when birds are fattening up ready to mate in the Spring..
Hanging bird feeders are good but make sure you get the squirrel proof ones or they'll steal the lot.*
White sunflower seeds are the best for attracting Finches, Tits, Sparrows, Starlings, Robins, etc.
I buy them in large sacks for around £30.
The black sunflower seeds are cheaper but tend to only attract half the breeds of birds and you'll get more Starlings.
The wild seed mixtures are good but remember they are 'live' seeds and any spillage will create weeds in your garden.
Also, dried worms and insects. You can buy them in packets.

*And here's my personal tip for keeping squirrels off the hanging feeders.
Firstly, hang the feeders from a pole not from a tree.
The poles come in all sorts but you can get 7 or 8 foot high poles that have 4 'branches' so you can hang different things from each.

Take some old vegetable fat and melt it in an old frying pan, add the juice from a jar of jalapenos and/or put in some black, crushed peppercorns. Put the stuff in a jar to cool.
Then wipe the mixture all over the pole except on the actual bird feeders.
Birds have no real sense of taste and it won't upset them.
However, squirrels hate it. It gets on their feet and they have to lick it off.
It won't harm them but they REALLY don't like it.
The mixture stays stuck to the poles through several torrential downpours or a month of light showers.
I call it Squirrel Napalm....

Oh, and use rubber gloves and/or wash your hands thoroughly.
Cause you won't like it either if you forget and wipe your eyes.
Ouch.... :lol:
ManInBrown
User avatar
zamaguire
The Man They Love To Hate
Posts: 538
Joined: 19 Feb 2010, 22:12
Location: in the water, fermanagh

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by zamaguire »

Pair of great tits in next doors garden right now.
airflamesred
The Man They Love To Hate
Posts: 655
Joined: 06 Apr 2017, 22:36
Location: Hammersmiff

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by airflamesred »

zamaguire wrote: 23 Jul 2017, 14:25 Pair of great tits in next doors garden right now.
Blue?
User avatar
zamaguire
The Man They Love To Hate
Posts: 538
Joined: 19 Feb 2010, 22:12
Location: in the water, fermanagh

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by zamaguire »

airflamesred wrote: 23 Jul 2017, 16:46
zamaguire wrote: 23 Jul 2017, 14:25 Pair of great tits in next doors garden right now.
Blue?
No, Great tit. has a black stripe down its front.
Summer Dreamer
VERSATRAN SERIES F
Posts: 230
Joined: 24 Mar 2011, 16:35

Re: How to attract birds into your garden.

Post by Summer Dreamer »

zamaguire wrote: 23 Jul 2017, 19:29
airflamesred wrote: 23 Jul 2017, 16:46
zamaguire wrote: 23 Jul 2017, 14:25 Pair of great tits in next doors garden right now.
Blue?
No, Great tit. has a black stripe down its front.
Great tits tend to be a bit larger.
'Scaffolding pays good bread'
Post Reply