scampo
Steve Campsall
I don't suppose I'm alone in worrying about the cost of feeding garden birds. I now buy 20kg sacks of sunflower hearts at £20-00 from a local pet shop and that has brought the cost down a good deal but here's another useful tip that seems to be working well in our garden...
On a visit to Rutland Water reserve shop, I bought a clear plastic "plate" that screws into a thread on the bottom of our bird feeder and catches the vast amount of half eaten and fallen seed that otherwise mostly goes to waste. Anyway, the result is that I now have to fill my feeder only half as often - and still enough food falls to the ground to keep the dunnocks and wrens happy.
Two other benefits - no more of that awful hairy, spongy mat of fungus growing on the soil under the feeders and, maybe because it swings about so much, no more grey squirrels as of yet.
On a visit to Rutland Water reserve shop, I bought a clear plastic "plate" that screws into a thread on the bottom of our bird feeder and catches the vast amount of half eaten and fallen seed that otherwise mostly goes to waste. Anyway, the result is that I now have to fill my feeder only half as often - and still enough food falls to the ground to keep the dunnocks and wrens happy.
Two other benefits - no more of that awful hairy, spongy mat of fungus growing on the soil under the feeders and, maybe because it swings about so much, no more grey squirrels as of yet.
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