Age : 44 Join date : 2010-08-15 Location : Shropshire Posts : 8964
About Me! My Name: Lisa Status: Mummy Number of Children: 1
Subject: Birds Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:02 am
Does everyone feed the birds?
I never have much but after my cockatiel escaped I kinda felt sorry for all the ickle birdies out there in the cold...and Izzy absolutly LOVES 'buddies'
So went to the garden centre and spent a small fortune on a wild bird feeder, fat balls and seeds and have stuck it in the garden outside the front room, hopefully in the morning we will have some visitors
My garden is full of birds, as my nan so delicately put it 'them next door have let the garden and hedges go wild so the birds like it' (it was her garden lol and she lives next door now, but as she commented she forgot I was sat in the car behind her!)
Miss B
Age : 41 Join date : 2010-11-26 Location : Here and There Posts : 736
Subject: Re: Birds Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:19 am
we feed them. the ohs gran wouldnt be happy if we never lol!! unfortunatley in the morning thou our garden is dominated by magpies, im talking 10 a time some times! line the fence!! they are bullys. later afternoon, tea time we get the smaller birds like finches, blue tits and my personal favorite is the wagtails iv not spotted a robin red breast this year yet ~BUT, last year we had an owl and for love nor money i couldnt catch a picture of him!!!! shy boy
gemz
Age : 104 Join date : 2010-08-16 Location : doncaster Posts : 3520
About Me! My Name: gemma Status: Daddy Number of Children: 2
Subject: Re: Birds Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:21 am
my mum has loads of bird feeders in her garden, on sticls and hung in the trees, im always saying i must get some bird feeders but never get round to it my gran feeds the ducks and swans, they get very hungry in this weather, they come quacking at her boat
jenshayne
Age : 54 Join date : 2010-08-17 Location : Canuckville Posts : 3290
Subject: Re: Birds Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:55 am
LOL..You know..we do! And while doing it..I always sing....
Vicki
Age : 39 Join date : 2010-08-19 Location : Stroud, Gloucestershire Posts : 1473
About Me! My Name: Vicki Status: Mummy Number of Children: 1
Subject: Re: Birds Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:00 pm
i feed the birds, i love to watch them! (sad eh! lol) ive got a seed feeder, peanut one, seed bloack feeder, fat balls and a tray feeder on the ground that i put meal worms and seed in and i also give them bread!! lilly loves to watch them too, we get alot of diff birds and woodpeckers too lol!
*Meg*
Age : 46 Join date : 2010-08-19 Location : South Wales Posts : 5152
About Me! My Name: Leah Status: Mummy Number of Children: 1
Subject: Re: Birds Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:19 pm
yeh i feed the birds, they get all the scraps e.g chips, peas, rice, bread, veg. We've got some seriously over weight magpies round us we get blue tits, robins, blackbirds and thrushes. The thrushes are my favourites, they are so pretty
J1
Age : 46 Join date : 2010-08-16 Location : England Posts : 2346
Subject: Re: Birds Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:02 pm
i dont cos i am scared the cats will have them, they brought numerous 'gifts' home this summer including birds and i dont want to make it easier for them
mariheartselijah
Join date : 2010-08-23 Posts : 8143
Subject: Re: Birds Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:03 pm
we feed them if we have leftover/stale bread
Amy
Age : 38 Join date : 2010-09-05 Location : Sunderland Posts : 2579
About Me! My Name: Amy Status: Mummy Number of Children: 1
Subject: Re: Birds Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:19 pm
i cant stand birds so no! they can go eat worms!! x
stephandhannah
Age : 38 Join date : 2010-08-19 Location : Glasgow Posts : 1615
Subject: Re: Birds Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:07 am
I feed them from my work. we often make trips to the pet shop to buy in food when we have even rabbits and stuff in and we dont have food for them. so when there we always pick up some bird food too
x
Mummy2aMiracle
Age : 42 Join date : 2010-08-16 Location : UK Posts : 1241
About Me! My Name: Dilly Status: Mummy Number of Children: 3
Subject: Re: Birds Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:15 am
We don't have a garden apart from a small communal piece so I throw crusts and stale bits of bread/cake/biscuits out of our front room window on the grass below for them (I live in a 1st floor maisonette) and the Chinese people below us have this bird feeder sickered to their window they fill that up with fat and seeds etc... any left over stale prawn crackers (and chicken balls if we've not eaten any chinese left overs) get chucked out there too (at night) as Urban the fox enjoys them, and I like watching him, he sneaks over all suspicious, looking around then grabs one and legs it then comes back hee hee xx
Guest Guest
Subject: Re: Birds Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:19 am
Nope! I'm the same as Jo! I have a cat so it would be cruel to encourage the birdies! We do go to feed the quacks quacks though.
Lol at your nan lisa!
SuziandGracie
Age : 41 Join date : 2010-08-22 Location : Aldershot, Hants Posts : 1920
Subject: Re: Birds Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:31 am
i would love too but in the space of the 10 houses down our side of the road there are 24 cats
LisaGandAmelia
Join date : 2010-08-17 Location : Cheshire Posts : 3186
About Me! My Name: Lisa Status: Mummy Number of Children: 1
Subject: Re: Birds Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:39 am
We have a bird table and I put seed out on it. We have hundreds of squirrels so they eat most of it, but we love to watch them too so it's ok