New bird table. No birds!

[binley100]

We've just hung some fat balls off the washing line to foil the squirrel......He was getting very frustrated today I thought he was going to launch himself off the wall at them

[flopsy]

buy fatballs from home bargains 6 for 49p

[BertieFox]

Lots of friends from the UK just talk about disappearing garden birds, and they just don't know why. Today we heard the news about the disappearing mistle thrush. Birds are already up against it in the UK with the appalling climatic conditions which have affected breeding, but they also have an uphill struggle against the increasing number of domestic cats (to whom the ground foraging thrushes are particulary vulnerable) and things like slug pellets, which first poison slugs and snails, and then the birds, like thrushes, which eat them. Add to this the destruction of natural habitat on farm land and the removal of hedgerows and woodlands, and you have the reason why there are so few birds left in our gardens.

[Two_Sheds]

Lots of friends from the UK just talk about disappearing garden birds, and they just don't know why.

I live in suburbia, 2 miles from the centre of town. Hardly anyone else in this town, that I can see, feeds the garden birds.
People I know actively chase the birds away, because they don't like droppings on their car or their washing line.

Nature is seen to be a problem, a mess to be dealt with and disposed of. Trees are removed on the grounds of subsidence (but also because people don't like fallen leaves); gardens are paved over for car parking.

I bet those same people are loving Africa, and other nature programmes though.

It's so sad

[hurricanhoney]

Its takes birds quite a while to get used to new things. I bought a new pole feeder and it took the birds about a month to get used to it. My birds prefer sunflower hearts to another food.

[Piggle]

I know where all the birds are........ they are round here. Seriously I get through nearly 20kg of sunflower hearts a month and countless suet blocks, pellets etc.

They can empty a 1kg capacity feeder in a day

[ashleybrook05]

Curious.

Can I see it? Please post some pictures.

[Darwin.]

I have two bird feeders out, one with suet and one with peanuts, they've been out for weeks and all that came near them was crows, I moved them out of the reach of the crows a week ago and finally two days ago smaler birds started showing up.

They haven't gone near the suet yet but love the peanuts, I have chaffinches and bluetits so far, I had a few other small brown birds this morning but couldn't get a good look at them or a good enough photo before they flew off, hopefully I'll be able to identify them if they come back.

[Feral007]

We've just hung some fat balls off the washing line to foil the squirrel......He was getting very frustrated today I thought he was going to launch himself off the wall at them

Hey Bins? Do you have a clothesline like we do that goes around and around? Now, if that squirrel launches onto a fatball, you could get him dizzy so he didn't want to do it again......