Question

What do you find birds in the garden prefer? I’ve always got fat balls out but they don’t touch them. Do they prefer seeds?  

Answer 1

Fat balls. Snigger. Sorry had to be the immature one.  

Comments

@jennette I think it’s the lockdown looneys coming out of us all!  

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@evetta59 definitely! Innuendo city in my house at the mo  

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@jennette I miss that being at work. We always play innuendo bingo  

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@jennette I was going to suggest caution in having your fat balls out so you're not the only one  

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@catalan75 and watch the squirrels! They love them  x

Answer 2

They do eat them, you have taken the net off

Answer 3

Black sunflower seeds and dried mealworms are very popular with my birds  

Answer 4

Mine eat fat ball, fat cake, nuts, seed and any bugs in my garden they find.  

Answer 5

I give them grated cheese , mad for it xx

Answer 6

Dried mealworms for sure. Also peanuts. The fat balls and seed seem to be last on the list in my garden. The fat balls tend to get eaten by squirrels more than the birds. X

Answer 7

The birds here or magpies and pigeons rather, eat everything in my garden and the poor little ones have to wait till the bullies have finished  

Answer 8

Mixed bird seed, dried meal worms and suet pellets! You can also get suet logs and feeders, the woodpeckers love them!  

Answer 9

Sultanas and raisins

Answer 10

Mine love Sunflower seeds. I have given up on mixed seeds as grass grows every when the birds drop the seeds.  

Answer 11

At the moment. live mealworms for the baby and yet to fledge chicks ❤

Answer 12

Stale bread, bits of left over meat, cake, bacon fat etc with a few fat balls.  

Answer 13

Our Robins love porridge hear everyday for breakfast since before xmas x

Comments

@sometimes fab idea thank you! We do have a resident Robin in the garden so I will try this x

Answer 14

We find the Sparrows, Robin's and all kinds of 'Tits' love the peanuts and mealworms.  

Answer 15

Bird peanuts. I always get

Answer 16

Mine like grabbing the worms after I’ve been weeding and digging

Answer 17

Peanuts. The birds leave fat balls.  

Answer 18

Sunflower hearts all birds love them

Answer 19

They have fads. sometimes I'm putting out 4 fatballs a day, sometimes they last a couple of weeks. They always eat the seed and the nuts but I give scraps and leftovers too.  

Answer 20

And niger seed if you want gold finches

Comments

@kushner4454 they also love white hearts, usually I have 6/8 at a time, they are just the prettiest of birds. ❤️

Answer 21

We have seed, nuts, fatballs, Niger seed and put our dry mealworms and we have soo many different species come to us

Answer 22

My starlings eat the suet nuggets and my sparrows and blue tits eat seed and peanuts. The robins eat the seed and meal worms. The jackdaws eat the fat balls, suet nuggets and seed and the pigeons eat bloody everything  

Answer 23

We get fat ball suet pellets and small bird seed they gobble all that up

Answer 24

Suet logs

Answer 25

I cant believe how many gold finch there are I never noticed them before I put water out for birds and gold finch everywhere lol x I love the garden enjoy everyone and stay safe xx

Answer 26

My birds aren’t touching the fat ball or suet pellets but everything else is gone in a day? Can anyone enlighten me please ‍♀️

Answer 27

I used to buy lots of fat balls at our previous house as we had a big hedge full of little birds , but now we have more blackbirds , thrushes & bluetits that don't really bother with the fatballs so started getting the suet pellets , suet coconuts & peanuts , they all seem to love them  

Answer 28

I’ve never had luck with fat balls, but they do like suet balls. I also buy suet nuggets/white hearts/black sunflower seeds/and coconut half’s, we have a variety of birds visiting our garden as we live behind a nature reserve, but not many at the moment as there nesting. x. ps they love peanuts.  

Answer 29

I have suet pellets, dried mil worms , kibble and sunflower  seeds

Answer 30

The birds in my garden don’t touch the fat balls either. So I’ve stopped using them, they love mealworms. A little random but how do you all store your bird seeds? I’m looking for something a bit different rather than keeping them in the plastic? ‍♀️

Answer 31

In my garden they ignore seeds, peanut butter for birds and apples and eat only fat balls.  All species - blue tits, robins, long-tailed tit, house sparrows. All glued to fat balls. I might try them too if they are that delicious.  

Answer 32

Suet balls not fat balls. Robbin food