What bird feeders do you have?

[Dynamo]

I've worked it out that the tubs of mealworm I get from Wilkinson weigh about 2KG. I think they cost about 8 quid (but I could be wrong), but 3kg from that site would cost over 15 quid. I think I'm going to stick with Wilko's.

[T8Ter]

We get mainly sparrows and starlings in our garden. We used to get bluetits, and we even had some nesting in a birdbox one year, but when the young ones fledged, the magpies were straight after them. I don't know if any of the young escaped okay but we've never seen the bluetits since.

We have three seed feeders, a fat ball holder and a niger seed feeder on our frame, plus a tray for kitchen scraps that I usually put a fat ball or two into. I only placed the niger seed feeder on the frame last spring, but I didn't expect it to be eaten seeing as there's no blue tits anymore, but then we suddenly had a couple of Goldfinches visiting it. They went at it for about a month or so last spring, but then they disappeared never to be seen since, though in the past couple of days I've noticed the seed level in the feeder getting a bit lower again so maybe the goldfinches have started to return and we just haven't seen them yet.

We get a regular blackbird or two that visit the garden, and in recent weeks we've had a robin. One day we had two robins who decided to have a good bitch at each other. I throw suet pellets and mealworms on the ground for the robins and the blackbirds. I always put those out last thing at night because if I put them out during the day, the greedy starlings will come along and bag the lot in a matter of minutes. If the food is on the floor in the early hours, its usually far too early for the starlings to bother so the blackbirds and robins get it a bit easier. One funny thing we have noticed is that the blackbird will try to lead the starlings away from where the greater amount of ground food is.

I shop around for bird food but I've never looked online for it. The cheapest fat balls that I've found are a hundred for a tenner in one shop, plus the same shop sells a big bag of seed quite cheap as well. Mealworm is quite expensive and the cheapest I'd seen for a long time is the offer in Morrisons for 3 packs for a fiver. However, I've since found that Wilkinsons sell a tub of them for (I think) about 8 quid. That works out much cheaper than the Morrisons offer, plus I've found a local farm store that sells a nice sized bag of suet pellets for 8 quid as well. Its a shame I can't just get all the food from the same store. lol.

I'm going to have a gander online after I've written this to see if I can find the stuff any cheaper than what I already get. If anyone has any links for birdfood online, please post them. If I find any I will post them here.

Iget mine from here Bird Food Supplies, Bird Food Accessories and Bird Food - Bird-Food.co.uk
I think it's part of Ideal World shopping,the 20kg bags of food are really good value - always lots of offers on including, quite often, free delivery.

[Dynamo]

Iget mine from here Bird Food Supplies, Bird Food Accessories and Bird Food - Bird-Food.co.uk
I think it's part of Ideal World shopping,the 20kg bags of food are really good value - always lots of offers on including, quite often, free delivery.

10kg of mealworm from that site costs £119.63. Thats after they'd taken £80.36 off the price. The original asking price was £199.99. I bought two tubs of 3kg of mealworm for £7.49 each from Wilkinsons on Thursday. That equals just under £25 for 10kg from there. Thats a hell of a difference.

[T8Ter]

10kg of mealworm from that site costs £119.63. Thats after they'd taken £80.36 off the price. The original asking price was £199.99. I bought two tubs of 3kg of mealworm for £7.49 each from Wilkinsons on Thursday. That equals just under £25 for 10kg from there. Thats a hell of a difference.

Are you sure you haven't bought 300 GRAMS of meal worms for £7.49? or 3 litres (which, again weighs about 300 grams) - it's not quite the same as 3kgs

[T8Ter]

Just looked at Wilko's site, 100Grams of mealworm is £2.25 - 10KG therefore would be £225. Have nothing to gain by from the site I mention, purely that it's very good value.

[Dynamo]

I got the weights wrong I just weighed a tub again and 3 litres is actually about 600 grams. That makes it about £12.33 for a kilo whereas that site works out at £11.90, but only if you buy 10 kilo's in one load.