Post by chrisp on May 14, 2019 16:35:03 GMT
Thanks everyone for your good wishes for the little trio.
They you are doing very well and being very well fed with mealworms. If the feeding goes on at this rate they’ll be too fat to get out of the hole.😂
Slight problem at the weekend, we were over the two days inundated with starlings. We have them in the winter but early spring they all disappeared.nesting and raising chicks I presume. Now we have hoards of them ,all wanting to be fed. Of course it didn’t take long to find the meals worms.
I’ve got one of the feeders with a dome that can be lowered to keep bigger birds out. Oh no not starlings. How on earth do they get their heads in .😫
Anyway , I’ve taken it away and modified a cage feeder. I cut small hole plates out of plastic milk bottle and fixed them over the bigger holes..I got the idea from Paul’s Scott feeder.
The robin can still get in as I’ve not made the top holes smaller but the starlings can now only get their head in but not reach down to the worms.
I think I shall be quite glad when this years nesting is over.. 😫
They you are doing very well and being very well fed with mealworms. If the feeding goes on at this rate they’ll be too fat to get out of the hole.😂
Slight problem at the weekend, we were over the two days inundated with starlings. We have them in the winter but early spring they all disappeared.nesting and raising chicks I presume. Now we have hoards of them ,all wanting to be fed. Of course it didn’t take long to find the meals worms.
I’ve got one of the feeders with a dome that can be lowered to keep bigger birds out. Oh no not starlings. How on earth do they get their heads in .😫
Anyway , I’ve taken it away and modified a cage feeder. I cut small hole plates out of plastic milk bottle and fixed them over the bigger holes..I got the idea from Paul’s Scott feeder.
The robin can still get in as I’ve not made the top holes smaller but the starlings can now only get their head in but not reach down to the worms.
I think I shall be quite glad when this years nesting is over.. 😫