Food for ground feeders? (1 Viewer)

Does anyone know of a suitable food/seed for ground feeders?

This winter I will be watching part of a local minor river valley,in the past the adjoining farmland has produced some localy scarce birds like tree sparrow,
brambling and linnet flocks.

Not being able to establish any kind of regular feeding stations, i'm thinking of laying down some ground seed etc? on bare patches in the set aside field.
Hopefully this may replicate conditions two years ago when a large amount of
seed/grain was spilt by the farmer,this resulted in a feeding frenzy by the
winter flocks of sparrows,linnets,yellow hammers etc.

My idea is to lay some food down in the late evening and visit the area early next morning to record the ''goodies''.Anyone else tried this?

Matt

hi mat i would try a propriatry brand sutch as bamfords top flight wild bird food or better still there four seasonds whtch has a good mix of small finchy seeds. If you supliment this with an equal weight of roughly liquidised peanuts you should do fine .Try to feed at the same time every day then once you stop reduce feeding over 2or3 weeks good spotting

Cheers dafi

I just googled ''bamfords'' and was directed to their website,pretty sure I can order some from the local pet store.I've posted a link below for anyone else
who might be interested in their products.

I also see you have very recently joined us,so hi and welcome to birdforum.

Matt

www.bamfords.co.uk