Feeding Birds

[Easydrinker]

We still have sad elders flowering here, despite other trees shedding leaves.
Never yet seen a ripened Elderberry here.
Every winter the blackbirds waste energy jumping up to eat green berries.
Prompts me to go out with Lard and other food.

Robert.

[Mash]

Blimey never considered they would not ripen. We spend a fortune feeding the birds all year. That and a bit of magpie management have significantly improved the variety and quality of the birdsong.

[buffalobob]

You must be a mind reader mash, that's what I'm doing. I was down south in august 1 year BC (before corona) and was shocked by the size of southern elderberry and blackberry's and they were at least 3 weeks earlier than ours too, it’s just not fair. My OH and me watched a young rabbit being being attacked by a magpie this spring, saw a jackdaw taking starling chicks from a nest as well but thats what corvids do init. I love watching jackdaws whacking herring gulls cos they're sat on chimney pots they've chosen to nest in . Serves em right for covering my car in shite I say. Saw a parasitic wasp march across my meter box today it was clutching a hover fly and took it down a hole it had excavated in the wooden top, fascinating to watch.

[Easydrinker]

So, I split these posts from another thread as BB was posting...
Will see if I can drag his post over..

Robert

[Easydrinker]

Well, that worked, but not intuitive, I need to do more of this Mod, stuff, so I know how it works.
Thankfully Mods. here grow long in the tooth before they are needed.

Robert.

[Easydrinker]

Most of the local, native birds have learned where to find the chucks 'Layers pellets' and thrive.
Keeping the magpie numbers down has certainly increased the numbers of all birds here.
One of our neighbours has just felled a few acres of Sitka spruce, which was home to Herons and Siskins, that I know of, there will be change here next year.

Robert.

[gaza the instructor]

We have been told not to feed the local birds. Because they stand around
on street corners chewing gum,smoking weed and picking up all sorts of
low life (nearly caught the other night).
Thats all sorts of bird, blackbirds, white chinese and Thai.

[buffalobob]

You beat me to it Gaza .
My idiot neighbour has a bird table but it is not kept stocked. So birds waste energy getting there to find no grub. I had to hack overgrown plants back in his garden (again) this year as local moggies were queuing up to take advantage of the cover, perfect hunting ground for them. I only talk to them to remind them what utter cu#ts they are. ( the neighbours...not the moggies)

[gaza the instructor]

I shoot cats on demand and foxes not my shit man!!!
I have said b4 about the old boy on the corner and Tiger
shit from the zoo up the road. It works on cats, but not
Drug dealers unless its mixed with water in a bucket and
slung with a vengeance, mixed with a couple of .22 pellets
on their BMW paint work. And b4 you say anything these are
nasty people have been asked by plod to leave alone. That is
okay when they stay in town.

[Easydrinker]

gaza, that may have been heart felt, but I suspect you were at work testing Gin, because it makes little sense.
I have just wasted several minutes of my life trying to understand your end of post, and failed.
Edit or re-write sometime?
Or pour another and move on.

[phantom]

Well, that worked, but not intuitive, I need to do more of this Mod, stuff, so I know how it works.
Thankfully Mods. here grow long in the tooth before they are needed.

Robert.

Indeed. A bit like when it was you and me (more you) trying to hold back the tide of scammers and other ne'er-do-wells at the old site.........

'spect there's a fair bit of that here too..........

[Easydrinker]

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'spect there's a fair bit of that here too..........
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Life here is pretty easy, better security protocols, and a man named Moss keeping an eye on things, keeps the spammers away.
The users are all well behaved.
Apart from myself and Mash.

Robert.