Please remember your wild life

[pagan queen]

In this weather can I just ask you all to put out a dish of water for the birds and check it regularly so it doesn't freeze. Even if you don't normally feed the birds, at this time of year they find it so hard. Even though there has been plenty of rain and puddles, they are all frozen so birds are suffering. The water in my chicken run is freezing very quickly, I have broken the surface 4 times already today.

[emma_mcraf]

My eldest has been cleaning out the bird baths and topping up the feeders daily for out little feathered friends.
My chickens have been stomping about outside seemingly happy with the colder weather. I did spoil them last night though and put a snugglesafe under their roosting bars to keep them all snuggly warm!!

[Catwoman63]

I always put put extra fat balls for the birds in winter, they need looking after too, my birds are nice and warm and fed well indoors, and i try to look after the wild birds too lol x

[pagan queen]

Originally Posted by Catwoman63

I always put put extra fat balls for the birds in winter, they need looking after too, my birds are nice and warm and fed well indoors, and i try to look after the wild birds too lol x

How do you put fat balls out? Do you use the net bags they come in?

[Suze65]

Thanks for reminding me, I've just been out and put food out for the birds.

[Herpard]

the birds by us dont use the feeders. been giving them all mealworms, fat balls, suet blocks, seeds ect

[pagan queen]

Make sure you put some food on the ground. Blackbirds and thrushes only feed from the ground. Also anyone with birds (the pet variety) when you refill the seed bowls, empty them outside. There is always some uneaten seed that the wild birds can make use of. My fussy parrots often leave their less favoured bits and the wild birds go mad for them.

If feeding fat balls, please remove them from the mesh bag. I found a female blackbird trapped by her leg in a nest. One of the net bags had been used to build the nest.

[Catwoman63]

Originally Posted by pagan queen

Make sure you put some food on the ground. Blackbirds and thrushes only feed from the ground. Also anyone with birds (the pet variety) when you refill the seed bowls, empty them outside. There is always some uneaten seed that the wild birds can make use of. My fussy parrots often leave their less favoured bits and the wild birds go mad for them.

If feeding fat balls, please remove them from the mesh bag. I found a female blackbird trapped by her leg in a nest. One of the net bags had been used to build the nest.

Yes i take the fat balls out of the netting and put them in a feeder under a big tree, good idea about the empyting the seeds from my indoor birds into the garden, i never thought of that, thanks for the tip x

[pagan queen]

Originally Posted by Catwoman63

Yes i take the fat balls out of the netting and put them in a feeder under a big tree, good idea about the empyting the seeds from my indoor birds into the garden, i never thought of that, thanks for the tip x

I only thought of it recently Bev. I hated throwing away all the seed knowing there was so much waste. The good thing is, all the empty shells blow away leaving the good seed for them.

[Catwoman63]

Originally Posted by pagan queen

I only thought of it recently Bev. I hated throwing away all the seed knowing there was so much waste. The good thing is, all the empty shells blow away leaving the good seed for them.

Thats brilliant though, i have 3 double sets of seed holders in the finches cages, and always think when i change it that there is a lot of seed left, i feed them normal finch seed and the beapher special mix finch and also a scoop of fresh egg food in each one as well, so the wild birds can have the benefit of that as well x