Today I bought my first fat snacks of the winter for the birds.
It can still be relatively cheap (no pun) to by these snacks and the birds love them. The added benefit is any scrapes dropping on the floor can provide food for voles and birds that prefer to feed on the ground.
I use about ten snacks a week so costs about £8 a month to keep the birds with a constant supply.
Today I filled my feeders and felt I was being watched I as placed them around the garden. My feelings were right as the feeders were barely out of my grasp when a robin came to sample the delights.
The robin spent most of the afternoon nibbling on the snacks and was joined at various stages by a couple of great and blue tits.
I'm expecting more arrivals over the next few days, although the weather isn't too cold so the majority of birds do seem to be content with the food they can get in the fields and hedgerows.
Tomorrow I'll be spending a bit of time in the garden cleaning out the nestboxes so hope to catch a few different birds, including chaffinches, goldfinches, long tailed tits and tree sparrows.
More updates next week.
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