Do you feed the birds in your garden, if so what birds have you seen?
By ukchriss
@ukchriss (2097)
February 3, 2007 4:12pm CST
I am quite lucky as I have two cats but as yet they don't seem interested in the birds which come to my garden to feed.
I have a lovely little Robin who's really friendly, if i sit outside he will come very close to eat.
I have also seen Blackbirds, Doves, House Sparrows, Blue T..., (MyLot wont let me put this word in?!)
Pigeons and plenty of seagulls on my bird table.
February can be a difficult month for birds,
There's not much food around for them.
Do you feed the birds in your garden, if so what birds have you seen?
What to feed the birds + Recipe for Bird Cake
http://www.yptenc.org.uk/docs/factsheets/env_facts/feed_birds.html
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@patootie (3592)
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5 Feb 07
My cats never did bother with the birds in the garden, in fact my big male cat was such a lazy lad he would let them hop right up to him and even peck a few flies off his fur .. he just couldn't be bothered to take a swipe at them .. I've even seen a bird peck his head .. and all he did was come inside and flop down give a big deep sigh and fall back to sleep in seconds ..
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@sunshinecup (7871)
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4 Feb 07
I use to, but my girls have taken over that job from me, LOL. The kids steal the heel off the bread and uneaten biscuts to toss out there for them every other day. Here it is Feb. and I still keep forgetting to pick up some bird seed for the bird feeder.
We have black birds, fenches and some others I couldn't tell you what they were. We also have Hawks! So while we love seeing those fly, I think they are running most of our birds away.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
3 Feb 07
Thank you for supplying us with the website for the recipe. It also gives some great information regarding feeding birds. The recipe will come in handy to we frugal people. The suet cakes at the store go about $1. each. It can become costly to replace the empty feeders in the yard.
@MrNiceGuy (4141)
• United States
4 Feb 07
We feed ours very often, especially in the winter. We get sparrows, rain doves, cardinals, blue jays, ravens, robins, and there are even hawks that perch on the fence overlooking the feeder to look for other birds and the squirrels/occasional rats that also like the feed.
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@xParanoiax (6987)
• United States
4 Feb 07
My family loves to feed the birds which visit the tree outside our kitchen window..and the bunnies which coss the little yard which the tree belongs to.
Anyway, lemme think here..we get cardinals, blue jays, black jays, wrens, gold finches, sparrows, crows, starlings..umm..a few others but that's all I can remember right now.
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@lordsgurl (39)
• United States
4 Feb 07
I HAVE LITTLE DOVES THAT COME TO MY BACK YARD BUT LATELY I HAVE BEEN FOR A WHILE SEEING A CARDINAL WICH I THINK IS SO CUTE BUT MY NEIGHBORS CATS HAVE BEEN HANGING AROUND MY BACK YARD TOO SO I GUESS THEY ARE AFTER MY BIRDS LOL
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@754937286506548667 (815)
• Italy
4 Feb 07
yes me too in the garden but only when is summer they come near my window, cause they know that i always do them a little bit of food. But i don't know what kind of bird they are!. i always do them bread, and rice, and in few second a lot of birds come to eat!!!!.But personally i have never had a bird
@WebMann (4731)
• Canada
4 Feb 07
I love watching the birds at our feeders and I can watch them right from my home office. It's a great way to relax my eyes after staring at the screen so long.
We have a lot of cats that love our nice big yard as there is lot so ambush spots for them to try and get a bird or two.
I must say either the slow ones have all been taken or the they are getting much smarter and faster.
We do have a BlueJay that chases the cats pretty good but also chases other pretty birds.
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@eaforeman6 (8979)
• United States
3 Feb 07
I use a plain piece of slat board which is strung up by a chain and I keep it full at all times. I love birds. I have two windows where i can sit and watch them and its wonderful. We always have a garden in the spring and summer and sometimes they play in it, and they have been known to nip a bite of tomatoe from time to time...lol
@pandeydeependra (611)
• India
4 Feb 07
few day agomi have lot of birds in my cage but later i have feed them when i got keeping a birds in a cage is a attack on freedom of birds they got birth to fly in the sky not to kept in a cage. now i put food for the other birds in my garden ,mostly theycame and eat.
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@shawn2008 (296)
• United States
4 Feb 07
i dont have a garden but i do see a lot of birds feeding on the worms and seed in my front lawn. it is really pleasent to watch because birds are my FAVORITE!!! ^-^ i also live in northers maine so going out to buy bird seed for wild birds isnt really a normal thing to do lol.
@OMMIDIKRA_18 (54)
• India
4 Feb 07
V PLACE FOOD GRAINS IN OUR TERRACED FLAT....
many of the rarest birds sumtimes come 2 our place...
indian parakeets
golden oreal
taylor bird
robin
kingfishers...
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