Tuesday 18 August 2009

Feeding Birds

We take a keen interest in the birdlife in our garden, feeding the birds two or three times a day, throughout the year. This really brings rewards and our biggest success this year is the huge population of sparrows, a flock of about 40 birds. This is in a garden approx. 51ft wide and 110ft long.
My husband is a woodturner and he turned the'pods' you can see birds feeding from in the photo. There are also lots of other feeding stations in the garden, attracting a variety of birds.
In my eagerness to 'top up' all the feeders recently I tripped and fractured my kneecap so Dennis has taken over the feeding as well as looking after me!

2 comments:

  1. I clicked on the photo to enlarge it - and those pods with birds on top are just the sweetest things.
    Will have to get some for my garden. Do you put bread or seed or what in them?

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  2. Definitely no 'or what', just small seed. I don't put any bread out due to it attracting rats!

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