Put this in my bird feeders Monday and was all gone Tuesday. As soon as it is out I have dozens of birds fly in to gobble them all up!
I love watching them.
Too early to say about the non grow side of the product.
Firstly, I’ve attached a photo of the tub I received. No breakages or cracks so top marks for delivery, especially given previous reviews.
I bought a new bird feeder to attract the birds with this mix, alongside a fatball feeder I already have. It’s only been outside for a day, so I’ll update in a couple of weeks as to how many birds it attracts.
A tip for filling feeders using this kind of mix is to use a cheap plastic funnel.
I sometimes get an occasional robin hopping into the clear perspex bird-food house stuck on the french doors of my home office, more often theres 2 or 3 big fat pigeons who several times a day try to squeeze themselves into it , looking like a parent wedging themselves onto the kiddie rides at the fair, before i shoo them off.
But when i put the 1st of this stuff in there the other day all the local wildlife seemed to go barmy for it! I can only guess that maybe it smells like the birdy equivalent of a barbecue, that they can pick up on from streets away, or more likely their equivalent of that ultra-sweet but fatally addictive “high fructose corn syrup” that these days seems to be compulsory in every tin or packet of food.
As well as several robins and pigeons, there were also a couple of black & white crows or magpies? (well I think thats what they might be but admittedly Im no expert) and a few other non-descript birds constantly swooping in, and even a squirrel managed to somehow do some acrobatics and leap up into it when I wasnt looking (its about 5 foot off the ground!) and gorge himself silly on the stuff, hogging the place for a good 20 – 30 minutes, seemingly unconcerned that many of the birds are bigger than him, and causing quite a queue of birds to build up and loiter around awaiting their turn.
He stuffed himself so much that when he finally finished he leapt down onto a nearby rattan chair and rather comically managed to miss his mark and tumble off the edge & hit the ground! But he was still back the next day for (much!) more. Ah well at least i dont need to bother buying that ‘nut store for squirrels’ that I was recently considering when I saw him once in the distance!
But seriously, what the heck is in this stuff thats causing such a frenzy with my local wildlife?? Its nice to be able to see the occasional bird close up at my window, but its a bit disconcerting when theres robins, pigeons, crows, pigeons & squirrels just about ready to have a punch up over it as some skip the queue..
..And today I discovered one of the pigeons (who now seems to be camping on my roof in his relentless efforts to steal a bit of the action, he’s so loud as he staggers around 1st thing in the morning you’d think I had a drunken ostrich up there!) had decided he’d hop into my lounge to try and locate the tub of food I’d just topped up the birdhouse from. He was inches away from it (and me) when I heard him and jumped up from my desk – causing him to panic so much he tried to take flight but the silly bugger kept hitting & rebounding off of the inside of the windows of my (open) french door’s!
In the pics – Mr Squirrel hoovering this food up like he’d not eaten in weeks (and no, I dont have a zoom lens, he really did let me get up close & about 6 inches away from him, he stopped eating & froze for several seconds, but soon correctly weighed-up that he had a window to keep him safe & carried on!) whilst down below 2 birds (crows/magpies?) pace around to stake their claim to the others all busy observing them from a distance that theyre next in line… & understandably getting increasingly concerned & fretful that there’ll be nothing left LOL.
So do i recommend this stuff? Well yes & no – yes, if your lonely &/or want to see more of our feathered and even bushy-tailed friends right up close, but no if your not so keen on the chaos and invasion of personal space it will likely cause you.
Frankly, I doubt my next purchase of bird food will be this one again – I suspect by then I’ll need a break from these shenanigans, but hey, never say never LOL 🙂
5.0 out of 5 stars What the heck are they putting in this stuff - theyre all going crazy for it!
Put this in my bird feeders Monday and was all gone Tuesday. As soon as it is out I have dozens of birds fly in to gobble them all up!
I love watching them.
Too early to say about the non grow side of the product.
Firstly, I’ve attached a photo of the tub I received. No breakages or cracks so top marks for delivery, especially given previous reviews.
I bought a new bird feeder to attract the birds with this mix, alongside a fatball feeder I already have. It’s only been outside for a day, so I’ll update in a couple of weeks as to how many birds it attracts.
A tip for filling feeders using this kind of mix is to use a cheap plastic funnel.
But when i put the 1st of this stuff in there the other day all the local wildlife seemed to go barmy for it! I can only guess that maybe it smells like the birdy equivalent of a barbecue, that they can pick up on from streets away, or more likely their equivalent of that ultra-sweet but fatally addictive “high fructose corn syrup” that these days seems to be compulsory in every tin or packet of food.
As well as several robins and pigeons, there were also a couple of black & white crows or magpies? (well I think thats what they might be but admittedly Im no expert) and a few other non-descript birds constantly swooping in, and even a squirrel managed to somehow do some acrobatics and leap up into it when I wasnt looking (its about 5 foot off the ground!) and gorge himself silly on the stuff, hogging the place for a good 20 – 30 minutes, seemingly unconcerned that many of the birds are bigger than him, and causing quite a queue of birds to build up and loiter around awaiting their turn.
He stuffed himself so much that when he finally finished he leapt down onto a nearby rattan chair and rather comically managed to miss his mark and tumble off the edge & hit the ground! But he was still back the next day for (much!) more. Ah well at least i dont need to bother buying that ‘nut store for squirrels’ that I was recently considering when I saw him once in the distance!
But seriously, what the heck is in this stuff thats causing such a frenzy with my local wildlife?? Its nice to be able to see the occasional bird close up at my window, but its a bit disconcerting when theres robins, pigeons, crows, pigeons & squirrels just about ready to have a punch up over it as some skip the queue..
..And today I discovered one of the pigeons (who now seems to be camping on my roof in his relentless efforts to steal a bit of the action, he’s so loud as he staggers around 1st thing in the morning you’d think I had a drunken ostrich up there!) had decided he’d hop into my lounge to try and locate the tub of food I’d just topped up the birdhouse from. He was inches away from it (and me) when I heard him and jumped up from my desk – causing him to panic so much he tried to take flight but the silly bugger kept hitting & rebounding off of the inside of the windows of my (open) french door’s!
In the pics – Mr Squirrel hoovering this food up like he’d not eaten in weeks (and no, I dont have a zoom lens, he really did let me get up close & about 6 inches away from him, he stopped eating & froze for several seconds, but soon correctly weighed-up that he had a window to keep him safe & carried on!) whilst down below 2 birds (crows/magpies?) pace around to stake their claim to the others all busy observing them from a distance that theyre next in line… & understandably getting increasingly concerned & fretful that there’ll be nothing left LOL.
So do i recommend this stuff? Well yes & no – yes, if your lonely &/or want to see more of our feathered and even bushy-tailed friends right up close, but no if your not so keen on the chaos and invasion of personal space it will likely cause you.
Frankly, I doubt my next purchase of bird food will be this one again – I suspect by then I’ll need a break from these shenanigans, but hey, never say never LOL 🙂