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Basic bird feeding questions (1 Viewer)
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Elizabeth Bigg
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Elizabeth Bigg said:
Stacey - I have already received an answer from my black sunflower seed supplier:
Our Black Sunflower Seeds come from France. We would love to
source English product but a) their outer skins are thicker b) total
production in this country is insufficient to meet demand c) Price, it
seems crazy but it is cheaper to import than buy home grown!
I was delighted with such a speedy response, and I hope this will answer your question.
IanF
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Even up here we have several farms with sunflowers growing. We tend to buy in bulk too, through a local seed merchant, though we find the birds much prefer sunflower hearts to anything else. It certainly does away with any messy husks or sprouting weeds. Ours originate in North Dakota USA and cost £26.00 for 25kgs.
christineredgate
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Stacey,welcome to BF.Your little birds must think they have died and gone to heaven,absolute luxury, bless them.
Before we moved to a house without a proper garden I was an avid bird feeder,and I used to put floating balls in the large bird baths to stop them from freezing over,as sometimes the ice would be too thick for a kettle de frost job..
I can see you are going to have many happy hours watching your birds.
K.C.I do love your Chicadee.Would you say it was perhaps a cousin to our Coal tit.
Christine.
Before we moved to a house without a proper garden I was an avid bird feeder,and I used to put floating balls in the large bird baths to stop them from freezing over,as sometimes the ice would be too thick for a kettle de frost job..
I can see you are going to have many happy hours watching your birds.
K.C.I do love your Chicadee.Would you say it was perhaps a cousin to our Coal tit.
Christine.
Susan - $12.00 Canadian is like $6.00 American, isn't it??? Wow are your seeds cheap!
Pduxon - we get black-capped chickadees. Do you have bluejays in England? I'd rather not have them - they're terribly mean and they scare all the little birds from the feeders.
You know - I thought the climate in England was pretty much the same as here. Maybe not? Just wondering why the sunflowers aren't grown as much there. Do you have sunflowers in your gardens?
Pduxon - we get black-capped chickadees. Do you have bluejays in England? I'd rather not have them - they're terribly mean and they scare all the little birds from the feeders.
You know - I thought the climate in England was pretty much the same as here. Maybe not? Just wondering why the sunflowers aren't grown as much there. Do you have sunflowers in your gardens?
We don't have titmice all the way up here, but they do have them just a few hundred miles further South.
I identified a new bird at my feeder today! I was very happy. It was a white-breasted nuthatch.
Now I'm trying to figure out what another bird was, but I can't find it in my Michigan field guide. It wasn't feeding at my feeder - it was up on the telephone wire. There were 2 of them, actually. It looked like a brown thrasher, but had a shorter tail. Same bill and coloring and markings. Any ideas?
I identified a new bird at my feeder today! I was very happy. It was a white-breasted nuthatch.
Now I'm trying to figure out what another bird was, but I can't find it in my Michigan field guide. It wasn't feeding at my feeder - it was up on the telephone wire. There were 2 of them, actually. It looked like a brown thrasher, but had a shorter tail. Same bill and coloring and markings. Any ideas?
