'Your Bird Stories' vary greatly from garden to garden, and we love to help customers with their individual ornithological issues.
Emma Kenworthy of Fishguard had an issue with starlings. She has nothing against them personally (in fact they are in sharp decline along with many other species), it's just that they have a tendency to scare off the little birds from hanging feeders. So she sent us a great pic showing off her new ground feeder sanctuary, all arranged ready for the smaller birds to discover. The mesh sides are adjustable from 33mm to 58mm width, allowing you to choose which birds are excluded, or not.
On the ground in the middle is our Archway ground feeder. As well as the clear perspex roof keeping the rain off, it is also preventing starlings from getting at the seed on the very ends of the tray. A suet-filled half coconut is firmly attached to the roof, a Flutter Butter feeder at one end, facing inwards, and a hanging seed feeder right in the middle.
We think this set up looks fantastic, with a wide variety of feed to attract smaller birds. Hopefully they come flocking soon Mrs Kenworthy!
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