Do any insect collectors feed wild birds?

[bluemoth]

It is a lot of fun to put out seed for the wild birds. I have had my home made feeder up for about a month and have had more then ten species of birds so far. My most favorit has been a Black Headed Grosebeak. But then I had deer finding the feeder and eating the seed. The solution for this problem was putting a flat ring of fencing ( about 3 to 4 feed in width ) down on the ground around the feeder. I heard about the screen trick some years ago. Well it really works! Now I have a squirrel problem and will have to replace my hand made feeder with one of those squirrel proof ones.

[nomad]

I enjoy feeding the wild birds where I live. When they are breeding they love the mealworms I provide. In the winter, I have had quite a few species in spite of living in a large U.K town. Among the species visiting my garden for food in the winter, are the very colourful Jays from the crow family, but my favourite has been the Blackcaps and in the hard winters of a couple of years ago, I had a visiting beautiful Grey Wagtail. I am lucky that behind my urban small back garden there is an adjacent large old wooded graveyard behind a steep bank full of brambles and a few tall trees. I also get a few of the introduced North American Grey squirrels, but its the fat Wood Pigeons, which usually eat most of the food I provide, they are very greedy birds. Perhaps my favourite bird that visits all year round are the common Blackbirds, because not only have they become quite tame, waiting in the branches hanging over the bird-table, they produce that wonderful song in the morning and evenings. I also have several feeders.

Peter.

[anthony]

We only have one feeder and it is very popular in winter. Not much variety but good quantity of sparrows, various finches and of course starlings. We have doves and jays during the summer. Our ngighbour feeds humming birds and we will start that also. A easy and rewarding hobby.

[exoticimports]

I feed them when I don't get my butt out of bed early enough to check the MV light sheet!

[myotis]

I have always loved bird watching and have a bunch of feeders and lots of visitors. I had to build a cage to put my cages of pupa in so the birds wouldn't get to them.

[bluemoth]

Well just got a Brone Squirrel Buster Plus Feeder Yesterday. No squirrels came back yet but with this feeder they will be out of luck. It was rated as one of the top best squirrel proof feeders out there on non feeder company ratings sites. The birds were a bit nurvis about putting their heads in the dark seed feeding holes on the feeder at first. But they are ajusting fairly quickly and most are getting the seed just fine. Well the birds do like to come and steal the insects at my black light sheet to. But now that my feeder is on the other side of the house they look there for food insead of my sheet.

[jackblack]

Not intentionally as the birds here in our rainforest look after themselves , but the Cassowary`s zoom in on any bananas I put out for beetles or moths and now the scrub hens have taken a liking to them. I didn`t know they were fruit eaters as well.

[exoticimports]

And then there are bird WATCHERS. The lay person would expect bug collectors to be fruity, but reality is that there isn't much more fruity than bird watchers!

[neill]

Feeding the birds is one of life's great pleasures, and I get a much greater variety of them in the garden than I do Butterflies these days. Nothing beats a charm of Goldfinches on the Niger feeder.

[neill]

Feeding the birds is one of life's great pleasures, and I get a much greater variety of them in the garden than I do Butterflies these days. Nothing beats a charm of Goldfinches on the Niger feeder.

[lepidofrance]

Here is a nice wild bird who was very happy to feed on moths under the night collecting bulb ! Mount Totumas Cloud Forest, Sierra de Talamanca, Chiriqui, Panama, 20 days ago.