Comments on: Bob’s fat balls

By: fiona innes

fiona innes — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:06:26 +0000

Going to make these with the brownies tonight,just think of the mess…..hope the birds like them.

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:04:46 +0000

Wow that is a great idea! I needed to find out a new way to feed my birds. Thank you!

By: Susi

Susi — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:17:36 +0000

We cheated and bought a bundle of feeders and different feeds from the garden centre! Definately try these next time!

We can often be found sat in the kitchen with a cup of tea watching the birds pick at the food. All sorts of different kinds of bird and the “pecking” order of species is hilarious!

Susi
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By: Anne

Anne — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 19:24:02 +0000

Many many years ago, Blue Peter used to make bird feeders – probably the same recipe as fat balls, but they put the mix in a yogurt pot to set (complete with a piece of string throuch the middle) – remove the pot and hang up!!

By: Craft Matters

Craft Matters — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 12:00:47 +0000

I like a fat ball joke…!

One of the main things to remember is to put food & water out regularly so that birds don’t waste energy coming to your patch and finding nothing there. So once you start doing it, it’s a bit of a commitment. So rewarding though!

By: Vonnie

Vonnie — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:48:50 +0000

You have no idea. I was giggling to myself for about an hour

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:31:21 +0000

We just don’t have anywhere flat that our cats can’t get to in our garden. Even the back ‘wall’ which is something like 14′ high they can get on so we’re very limited to where we can put out food for the birds.

If it can’t be hung up somewhere we can’t give them it

By: bron

bron — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:24:46 +0000

Oh, apples is a good idea – we have a few gently rotting in the fruit bowl which I’ll put out this afternoon. Don’t forget water, too – the birds’ usual water will likely be frozen. We made fat balls a few days ago and looking out, I can see a little robin pecking away happily.

And I bet you’re proud of yourself for this blog title…

By: Kat

Kat — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 10:05:01 +0000

We have a fieldfair at the moment that is coming to visit us every day for the scraps of leftover food from after christmas (our birds get allsorts, cocktail sausages to donner meat:-p).

We generally always have blackbirds, starlings and theres a little wren out the back.

We had about 10 apples that were beyond useable so we cut them up into quarters and put them out. The fieldfair has been going NUTS for them. Its been really funny watching it.

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