Greetings!
I'm new to bird feeding. I bought a bird feeding station a few days ago that has a tray for any food, a tray for water and three hanging feeders - one for fat balls, one for peanuts and one for mealworm.
I did a wee bit of research and apparently (before I found this website existed) it seems most birds love sunflower hearts.
Therefore, I bought a massive 12kg bag from Home Bargains along with a tub of fat balls and a bag of dried mealworm.
They all love the fat balls and go absolutely berserk over the mealworm, so much so that they only last about 15 minutes after filling up the feeder!
I can't afford topping up the mealworm as they're the most expensive by far.
The problem is, they hardly touch the sunflower hearts and I thought they were going to be the most popular or at least popular especially if the others weren't available.
Have I missed something? Are sunflower hearts not that popular or not popular during this part of the year e.g. fledgling feeding?
I'm wondering if there's something wrong with them specifically? I was reading an Amazon review on some peanuts where the reviewer said her birds love peanuts but didn't touch the ones she had bought from Amazon. I understand peanuts must be free from Aflatoxin but don't know if this also applies to the hearts.
Also, if this could be relevant, next door's garden bird feed as well.
The birds are mostly:
Sparrows
Starlings
Blue tits
Wood pidgeons
Thanks very much and hope you can help.
I'm new to bird feeding. I bought a bird feeding station a few days ago that has a tray for any food, a tray for water and three hanging feeders - one for fat balls, one for peanuts and one for mealworm.
I did a wee bit of research and apparently (before I found this website existed) it seems most birds love sunflower hearts.
Therefore, I bought a massive 12kg bag from Home Bargains along with a tub of fat balls and a bag of dried mealworm.
They all love the fat balls and go absolutely berserk over the mealworm, so much so that they only last about 15 minutes after filling up the feeder!
I can't afford topping up the mealworm as they're the most expensive by far.
The problem is, they hardly touch the sunflower hearts and I thought they were going to be the most popular or at least popular especially if the others weren't available.
Have I missed something? Are sunflower hearts not that popular or not popular during this part of the year e.g. fledgling feeding?
I'm wondering if there's something wrong with them specifically? I was reading an Amazon review on some peanuts where the reviewer said her birds love peanuts but didn't touch the ones she had bought from Amazon. I understand peanuts must be free from Aflatoxin but don't know if this also applies to the hearts.
Also, if this could be relevant, next door's garden bird feed as well.
The birds are mostly:
Sparrows
Starlings
Blue tits
Wood pidgeons
Thanks very much and hope you can help.