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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Try taking an apple or two, and cutting a hole through it. Stuff the hole with chunky peanut butter, and hang that out with your other feeders. There are lots of birds that feed on fruit rather than just seeds, and you can attract a greater variety of birds to watch!
Stitchawl
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Originally Posted by red_pheonix
That's why we have bird feeders...for the entertainment value. We also get chipmunks and squirrels. It's so much fun watching the birds and squirrels vie for space on the feeders only to have the chipmunk come rampaging through to get the seeds.
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I've tried apple, though not with peanut butter, but the inner city birds are snobs and refused to eat it. Unfortunately we haven't got a lot of birds in the inner city anymore. There are great tits, jays, pigeons, ravens and several other birds I don't know the name from.
The pigeon don't eat birds food, they eat junkfood people throw out on the street, as do the ravens. The jays like peanuts. Before I got the sunflower seeds the tits loved peanuts, if I hung up a bag of mixed seeds and nuts they would only eat the peanuts and leave the rest. Now they love the sunflower seeds and only sometimes do I see them on the peanut feeder. All birds refuse to touch suet blocks/balls.
They've almost emptied the sunflower seed feeder, but since I haven't got anymore sunflower seeds they have to wait until my order arrives tomorrow. I know from experience that in another week they don't feel the need to stock up anymore and their binging will slow down.