Like a good wildlife friendly eco person, with delusional tendencies, I decided to feed the birds during the winter. Last winter they just got a few fat balls hung up outside the kitchen window. This year I decided to buy 3 feeders and a bag of wild bird food. After banging in a couple of poles and putting a washing line up, I pegged the feeders out and now have a somewhat saggy, though artistically pleasing (delusional remember!), bird feeding line. I congratulate myself on unaccustomed foresight when putting this line over the flower bed. There is now a whole 5kg bag worth of husks scattered over the ground and I can now dig them into the bed! Result. I admit that the idea was more for home delivery guano, but I'll take what I can get.
What I didn't reckon on was the fussiness of the birds. At first I bought Wild Bird Food. As I would be feeding wild birds... So they went through it with a fine tooth comb tossing out any wheat/barley seed, keeping the hemp for later and scarfing the sunflower seeds. Obviously they aren't doing the Caveman Diet and I have less of a flower bed, more a cereal field, though we shall see how many sunflower seeds survived.
Now I just buy Sunflower Seeds for Birds, though I haven't yet got to the stage of getting the ready husked ones!
Think I'll plant sunflowers in the bed this year, they'll look nice above the barley...
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