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Starlings not migrating
losing the rest of the birds. Perhaps if you withdrew the food for a while they'd move on. Then you could start feeding the rest again. Yes, sadly that's the conclusion I've come to - but I would feel very sad to stop feeding the blackbirds and robins.  I by Lunarz
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10/12/2012 15:33:10
by Lunarz
Have you seen one?????
with the wild bird seed as there's loads of mouths to feed now and they cost us a fortune to feed.  Still, where would we be without them all ? Had loads on my allotment when it was warm earlier in the year, in this last lot of sun havent seen any. I have a by susan howard2
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27/07/2012 18:55:20
by kentish wiggler
Fat ball residue.
, having chaffinches and robins in your garden.  We have sparrows and starlings but still love to watch their antics fighting for the food.  My husband feeds the birds but the feeders are over pavers so are easy to clean. by jean riley
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02/09/2012 19:46:08
by lavenderlass
Acer P Taylor
them you can pick them all out and feed them to the birds then repot your acer and cross your fingers that it recovers.   If you're not organic there's a Provado product that kills them.  You might want to do a protective treatment on other by Jan Clark
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06/05/2013 19:13:01
by obelixx
Talkback: No angels on Peckham Rye
nearby park I picked it up and carried it home. All the way, and up into the flat I watched the fleas hop off onto my hand,and skip down my arm. There were dozens of them. Today i have had such an array of birds feeding in my garden , i live in Worsley by Jane P
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28/11/2011 18:37:30
by Kevin Barber
Talkback: Wagtails
Although they aren't garden birds "waggies" do come into towns alot during the winter. One dark winter evening I was doing some Christmas shopping and could hear lots of bird noise. Looking up there was a tree full of Pied Wagtails! I assume by Chris
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28/11/2011 18:37:20
by Richard Jones
Companions in the wildlife garden
in the picture he sits guard over it and he has been fighting Starlings, Robins, Blue Tits, any bird that goes near he will try and keep them away. What a bully. He didn't fight a pigeon that came down to feed though, I suppose there are limits even for a by happymarion
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04/02/2012 18:32:46
by donutsmrs
Mysterious hole appearance in the soil.
pragmatic about it. Do you feed birds by any chance? The reason that I'm asking is that spilled bird food can attract rats as an easy source of food. I fear it is a rat; one year my beetroot did not grow; the neighbours who were watering the garden when I by daydaisy
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12/04/2013 22:25:56
by Fairygirl
Talkback: How to grow early strawberries
have a lot of birds in the garden. good advice, i have allready have 4 plants in a 16" basket with some sweet peas so i shall see how thay do thanks tony Is the liquid from a wormery good to feed strawberries? i have been in my tunnel and given by neiljohnson
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18/05/2012 21:29:42
by louadd
pruning old conifers
, the branches began to snap and cause a danger.  The tree has now been demolished, but the trunk has been left to about five feet, so that a bird table - platform , can be positioned on the remaining stump, to enable a feeding/watering platform for birds.  In my by jac2048
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09/04/2013 00:54:20
by Sam12