Monday, 4 October 2010

A rod for my own back!

OK! So I'm soft and the birds and the squirrel have all worked this out for themselves. The sparrows like to have their seed with the husks removed because they can eat more in a shorter time so that's what I fill the feeders with. It also means that they eat what drops onto the ground and I don't have to clear up any mess or have strange things germinating and growing in the flower bed. I also put a handful of their seed onto the bird table so that nobody gets left out at busy times.
The great-tits and blue-tits enjoy the peanuts and also the suet and seed block, so they are in separate wire feeders but the peanuts are sometimes sabotaged by the squirrel! He has his own special box full of peanuts (but that doesn't stop the great-tits and blue-tits attempting to get at the nuts through the perspex front).
However, squirrel is also rather partial to sunflower seeds and as the seed on the bird table has plenty of these, when he comes down he hoovers up the lot!
This morning when he came down he sat on the fence at the top of the garden for quite sometime looking at me in the kitchen through narrowed eyes with an accusing look on his face. In the end I relented and went out and put a handful of birdseed on the empty bird table and within minutes he was down and scoffed it all. After that, I had to go to the dentist and on the way back I called in the garden centre to buy some more birdseed.
While I was there, I noticed they had bags of sunflower kernels which were a bit pricey but I thought I would get squirrel a little treat and when I got home I put a small handful on the bird table. When I looked out an hour later they were all gone and I didn't think he had come back because it wasn't at the time when he calls in. Then I noticed a pair of guilty looking collared doves on the roof watching me probably hoping for more. So now they know about the goodies that can be found on my bird table. I will have to make sure that this doesn't get too expensive!

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