What food to attract the birds?

[nicebutdim]

No, I don't mean those birds, so no curry and a babycham answers please....[:)] I have rigged up a table at the window and so far have tried Sunflower seeds, bread crumbs, chopped mixed dried fruit, so far only a family of Great Tits has been brave enough or tempted and they only take the sunflower seeds. I know that I have others arouns including a couple of Redstarts, so what do I need to offer them to bring them to my table? OK go on then, daft answers too!

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regards

[muscoka]

Hi

My wife made a feeder with the kids the other day a put in the following cake

http://www.rspb.org.uk/youth/makeanddo/activities/birdcake.asp

It has worked very well attracting all sorts of species.

[Geordie girl]

Great dancing bird nicebutdim but where's its other leg?[:D]

[sharkhunter]

Is that the donor for the spare leg  that rolf harris used to sing about, Jake the peg deedle  eedle eeedle dum [:D]

[LEO]

Certainly not "spotted dick!"

[Pads]

Have you super glued the poor bird to the table [:(].......................................[:)]

[andyh4]

Site the table - or maybe another - further away from the house.  T*ts, Robins and sparrows may be brave enough to come that close to a habitation,but many birds won't.  Redstarts - maybe, maybe not.

[Lesley1952]

apart from the usual I get a baguette and stick twigs through it a intervals (for the birds to balance on ) then I put a loop of twine through it and hang it from the tree we also thread popped corn on string (the kids love doing that) and string them up around the trees

[Pads]

At christmas time we decorate our christmas tree in the garden with strings of pop corn and monkey nuts plus lard balls and fruit rings so the birds have there own christmas tree. Its always a popular place on christmas day[:)]  

[Gardengirl]

Redstarts come to us each winter and strip any remaining apples from our trees, and munch all the windfalls; they rarely touch anything else from the feeders, or the garden.

We buy sunflower seed hearts, I think they're called - not whole ones with seed covers. Nuthatches, robins etc are very keen on them, besides the more usual great, blue and long-tailed tits.

Jo