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If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.
If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.
The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat
Does anyone else try to feed them ?
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"I do ... I adore the birds in my garden  "
It's a bit silly for a swingers site but they'll struggle in this weather to eat.
I've spent a fortune on food stations and fat balls etc
Pretty sure they "tweet" each other as you get more and more |
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over a year ago
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"I do ... I adore the birds in my garden
It's a bit silly for a swingers site but they'll struggle in this weather to eat.
I've spent a fortune on food stations and fat balls etc
Pretty sure they "tweet" each other as you get more and more "
They do and I get some that sit on the fence in the morning waiting and will come down while I'm still standing there ... it may be a bit sad but i love it |
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"I do ... I adore the birds in my garden
It's a bit silly for a swingers site but they'll struggle in this weather to eat.
I've spent a fortune on food stations and fat balls etc
Pretty sure they "tweet" each other as you get more and more
They do and I get some that sit on the fence in the morning waiting and will come down while I'm still standing there ... it may be a bit sad but i love it "
Me to, I've got a robin that will come in the house now.
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"I do ... I adore the birds in my garden
It's a bit silly for a swingers site but they'll struggle in this weather to eat.
I've spent a fortune on food stations and fat balls etc
Pretty sure they "tweet" each other as you get more and more
They do and I get some that sit on the fence in the morning waiting and will come down while I'm still standing there ... it may be a bit sad but i love it
Me to, I've got a robin that will come in the house now.
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Robins are my favourite bird  |
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By *iss SJWoman
over a year ago
Hull |
I buy fat balls and bird feeders and hang them from the tree in my mums garden. Love watching the birds come and go and there is a robin that’s been around for a couple of years now. I wouldn’t feed them in my own garden as I have cats. |
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By *amissCouple
over a year ago
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We have put fat balls out today. Some are hanging, but we also put some on a low feeding table. The birds have loved it today, we can see all their little footprints in the snow, where they've been running around the table  |
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Three bird feeding stations and fat balls pinned up all over the garden, only problem is a local bloody sparrow hawk has cottoned on and swoops in every so often!  |
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"If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.
If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.
The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat
Does anyone else try to feed them ?
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And shite all over your windows  |
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I remember one year when I was with my ex we made fat balls (well discs really) and hung them in the tree outside the flats but I saw some kids throwing stones at them I turned into the grump old man at number 36 then (I was 23/24 at the time 
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"I remember one year when I was with my ex we made fat balls (well discs really) and hung them in the tree outside the flats but I saw some kids throwing stones at them I turned into the grump old man at number 36 then (I was 23/24 at the time
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"If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.
If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.
The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat
Does anyone else try to feed them ?
And shite all over your windows "
Scientifically proven that you're more likely to get shit on if you don't feed them.
They tweet each other like "oi, the miserable lot at 42 haven't left food, let's shit on the gits"  |
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"I do ... I adore the birds in my garden
It's a bit silly for a swingers site but they'll struggle in this weather to eat.
I've spent a fortune on food stations and fat balls etc
Pretty sure they "tweet" each other as you get more and more "
How cum you spent so much, it's only tuppence a bag 
Yeah, I've been feeding the birds. We had a woodpecker in the garden the other day.
My favourites are the long tailed tits  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Feeders filled every day plus fresh water in the bird bath then peep out the kitchen window and watch the birds come to feed. Get a lot of pleasure from doing that |
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"If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.
If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.
The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat
Does anyone else try to feed them ?
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Yeah - out of my hand.
Haven't been successful with this year's Robins yet but they come when I call and get to about 1 foot away. Been going on for a few years and each year it's a younger relative than previous.
It started by complete accident.
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Ive fed some of the local cats who pop in the garden,big animal lover and everyone should be warm and fed at this time of year and considering how much bloody snow we've had haha! |
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By *unguya2zMan
over a year ago
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"If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.
If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.
The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat
Does anyone else try to feed them ?
Ive always fed the birds,
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yep hubby has 4 bird feeders, which he has put high up in a tree using a clothes prop as he also feeds any stray and feral cats! Black sunflower seeds, nyjer seeds, peanuts and suet pellets for the birds, finest cat food for the moggies, chicken for the fox.... and for me..... stale bread because he's spent all the shopping money on the animals |
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"If you've got a garden can you try to put out some food and water through the cold spell, some will already.
If you do a quick google it will tell you what foods are best especially fatty food.
The benefits are you get a host of birds to watch, robins and tits(no sniggering) being a treat
Does anyone else try to feed them ?
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get seagulls coming in to feed too, they take a lot of food but they need it being large birds so not a problem.. Got bird feederz up for smaller birds |
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over a year ago
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I feed them all year round. Used to get pigeons eating it all but I got feeders with cages so only the little birds can get in. Love it when there's like 13 little birds on the window feeder or clinging to the wall waiting their turn. |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrRxQVUFN4
costs a bit more than tuppence.
Round my way there is a problem with air rats (seagulls, specifically herring gulls) which eat anything thats not seeds including the smaller birds if they can grab them. Herring gulls need culling.
Regularly top up bird feeders though its mianly sparrows and starlings and a few robins.
Anyone with cats should know they are the biggest predation on birds and small wildlife in the garden, should be lawful to shoot cats on ones own property.  |
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