Feeding the birds

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:45 am

I'm fed up with house sparrows and have just ordered from e bay chicks of the following.... they should be arriving at Heathrow next Tuesday.

Cassowary

Rhea

Harris Hawk

Bald Eagle

Vulture

I'm a little concerned about noise but any tips on how to keep them?

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 8:55 am

The sparrows in my garden are like naughty children. Always quarreling and making an awful noise but I wouldn't not have them. My mum doesnt have a single sparrow in her garden just big heavy collar doves, magpies and starlings.

If you buy all those chicks off of ebay, you might need to consider having bird seed delivered by the lorry load along with a large consignment of rotting flesh

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:01 am

Snowfire;1407014 wrote: The sparrows in my garden are like naughty children. Always quarreling and making an awful noise but I wouldn't not have them. My mum doesnt have a single sparrow in her garden just big heavy collar doves, magpies and starlings.

If you buy all those chicks off of ebay, you might need to consider having bird seed delivered by the lorry load along with a large consignment of rotting flesh My sparrow make a heck of a racket so I bought one of those bird Interpretors on e bay... I set It In the garden and couldn't believe what they were saying to each other. Two were having a terrible squabble and one said ' Your nest is s.hit, call that a nest'?

Do you think my Chicks can all share the same back yard or will they fight amongst themselves?

Snowfire · Post by **Snowfire** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:05 am

Not sure just how sociable vultures are but if it all kicks off, I wouldn't want to be in your garden

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:47 am

I can send some of these to you, we've got a ton of them just in my apartment complex:

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:59 am

SnoozeAgain;1407020 wrote: I can send some of these to you, we've got a ton of them just in my apartment complex:

I also get a lot of Magpie's. They tend to be bully's with other birds but I just make sure there's food to their liking for them. I buy bags of sultana's for them but I'm very careful about keeping them seperate to the bread.... had a dreadful to do one year when the sultana's got mixed with the bread and the yeast In the bread made the fruit alcohol.... we had raucous hooligan drunken Magpie's flying Into windows and all sorts.

Wandrin · Post by **Wandrin** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 3:47 pm

The hawks and owls who live in and around my little property tend to keep the riffraff on their toes. They can be the only things I have yet witness to quiet the Mockingbirds during mating season. The hummingbirds always get in my face to remind me when their feeders are low.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:15 pm

oscar;1407011 wrote: I'm fed up with house sparrows

Sparrows I believe, are now a protected species, you will need to apply for a licence to take them out.

Post by **LarsMac** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:39 pm

I have so many different birds around my house, it is great to sit on the porch to watch and listen

We have two different species of Woodpeckers, Blue Jays, Chickadees, Sparrows, Red Finches, Goldfinches, Robins, Wood Thrushes, The occasional Magpie, and some Crows.

And I don't feed a one.

I enjoy my morning coffee with them around.