Jonathan Hare
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I have just found this forum and just joined. 2 months ago I bought a peanut feeder about a foot long, I have filled it with peanuts and put a fat ball in the centre of it.
I hung 5 other fat balls on a bush that has grown in my back garden. After about a week I looked at the feeder and looked as though nothing has visited it as it is still the same level.
So I went in search of the fatballs that I hung on the bush. Couldnt find them anywhere. So next day I went out and have a good look around, and found the empty netting. As I went to pick them up a large blackbird jumped out. So there was the reason where they had gone.
While I was sat at the computer in my living, I thought I could prise the netting open and I filled the net full of peanuts and have hung them on the hedge in the front garden next to the road. Within 3 days it was empty after house sparrows eat the nuts, so I filled it again this time only lasting a day before it was emptied.
Last week I bought a large seed feeder (about a foot long) and filled it with seed and hung it up in my back garden, and have noticed today that it was emptied about 3 inches. So I looked at the peanut feeder I put up and looks as though it hasnt been touched since I hung it up about a month and a half ago.
I put 2 fat balls up on the front hedge and 2 empty fat ball nets filled with nuts, I counted about a family of about 6 to 10 house sparrows running about in the hedge.
So it has got my wondering why there hasnt been any birds feeding from my large peanut feeder in the back garden.
So far I have seen house sparrows feeding on the nets of nuts and fat balls on the hedge at the front of the house.
Blackbirds eating the seed and fat balls in the back garden. And today while I was looking there was a white colourish small bird probaly a tit fly out of the hedge in the back garden.
My tip is that when they have eat the fatballs instead of just throwing the netting in the bin. Prise open the top of the net and fill it with nuts or sunflower seeds and hang them up by weaving the top (open) of the net across a branch/ twig of a hedge.
I hung 5 other fat balls on a bush that has grown in my back garden. After about a week I looked at the feeder and looked as though nothing has visited it as it is still the same level.
So I went in search of the fatballs that I hung on the bush. Couldnt find them anywhere. So next day I went out and have a good look around, and found the empty netting. As I went to pick them up a large blackbird jumped out. So there was the reason where they had gone.
While I was sat at the computer in my living, I thought I could prise the netting open and I filled the net full of peanuts and have hung them on the hedge in the front garden next to the road. Within 3 days it was empty after house sparrows eat the nuts, so I filled it again this time only lasting a day before it was emptied.
Last week I bought a large seed feeder (about a foot long) and filled it with seed and hung it up in my back garden, and have noticed today that it was emptied about 3 inches. So I looked at the peanut feeder I put up and looks as though it hasnt been touched since I hung it up about a month and a half ago.
I put 2 fat balls up on the front hedge and 2 empty fat ball nets filled with nuts, I counted about a family of about 6 to 10 house sparrows running about in the hedge.
So it has got my wondering why there hasnt been any birds feeding from my large peanut feeder in the back garden.
So far I have seen house sparrows feeding on the nets of nuts and fat balls on the hedge at the front of the house.
Blackbirds eating the seed and fat balls in the back garden. And today while I was looking there was a white colourish small bird probaly a tit fly out of the hedge in the back garden.
My tip is that when they have eat the fatballs instead of just throwing the netting in the bin. Prise open the top of the net and fill it with nuts or sunflower seeds and hang them up by weaving the top (open) of the net across a branch/ twig of a hedge.
