This autumn I splashed out on 'no mess' bird food, it was on special offer and you do get more seed for your money as you're not paying for all the husks and so forth. But the birds don't seem to be eating it half as much and I just had to chuck away half a feeder full as it had gone off. Of course with the mild weather there may actually be other food around so they're not as feeder dependent, but in previous years I've been ordering food about once every 6 weeks or so. There seem to be birds about, the 'usual suspects' for us of chaffiniches, blue tits, great tits and robins, but they're just not hitting the feeders as much. So I went down to the garden centre and bought some black sunflower seeds to mix in with it and I'll see if that makes it more attractive.
Apart from the bird feeders, the garden is pretty much dormant, even the pond snails appear to be sleeping. But the pond weed hasn't all died down the way it normally does so some is still green. There are bulbs poking their heads out of the ground, and quite a lot of things still have some leaf, but not much is going on.
Apart from the bird feeders, the garden is pretty much dormant, even the pond snails appear to be sleeping. But the pond weed hasn't all died down the way it normally does so some is still green. There are bulbs poking their heads out of the ground, and quite a lot of things still have some leaf, but not much is going on.
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