Feed the birds, tuppence a bag.

[Wrath of Zuruggu]

Does anyone else feed the garden birds? It's something I do on auto and don't really give it much thought but I know (from retail statistics we get given in the shop) that well over 50% of adults say they put food out for the birds.

I get all the common things; blackbirds, wood pigeons, collard doves, robins, blue tits, great tits, coal tits, chaffinches, green finches, goldfinches, starlings, magpies, house sparrows. Then occasionally I'll see greater spotted woodpecker, gold crests, tree creepers and nuthatches. I've also had a sparrowhawk and tawny owl.

[Wolstenholme]

We get pretty much the same. We put out left over budgie feed and they enjoy rooting through the husks to find whole seeds. I also put out bread when I'm not hungry at lunch time.

We've had: sparrows, blue tits, wood pidgeons, collared doves, robins, blackbirds (we had a whole family this year the babies were the cutest), we had a heron once, we get rooks as there's a massive rookery on the estate.

I'm very jealous about your owl - that's amazing!

[Delicious_Scout]

No, I do not usually feed them, the food for our birds is usually enough money for us to spend.


I assume you won't count "bats" as birds, but seeing them around is fun and actually good if you want to keep mosquitoes under control.

[Spriter]

We do leave some out, and we have indeed seen some Robins floating around. Should be a few more coming around since Winter is coming up soon enough ^^

[Shaymin]

My family put out seed, apples, mealworms, sometimes left over things we know they'll eat (not bread tho). we get all sorts in our garden - bluetits, great tits, long tailed tits, robins, blackbirds, sparrows, starlings, sometimes even rarer things like things you only see in fields or meadows, particularly in the winter. we've even had a peacock in our garden once! though i'm not sure he was there for the food

[Wrath of Zuruggu]

^haha, a peacock is great.

I put out peanuts, sunflower hearts, fatballs and suit in feeders then just scatter some cheap general bird seed on the floor for the pigeons/doves/sparrows. I'll put out leftover fruit and stuff every now and then but the birds in my garden don't seem to be that fussed with fruit.

[Milsap]

As I live in a second floor flat in the middle of the Black Country, it's not something I get to do much. My parents who live in Lincolnshire have bird feeders and all sorts in their garden.


I chuck bits of sandwich at the pigeons to get them to go away though...

[SirBlaziken]

I assume you won't count "bats" as birds, but seeing them around is fun and actually good if you want to keep mosquitoes under control.

If that's so, then we shouldn't have mosquitoes around. If only they'd stop finding ways into our house....

[Captain Jigglypuff]

What the heck is a tuppence????

[Lord Raven]

i think google is your best friend here

[Milsap]

What the heck is a tuppence????

Say two pence really quickly.

It was the old 2p piece pre-decimalisation (When we had pounds, shillings, pence). Back when our money was so confusing.

[Captain Jigglypuff]

Say two pence really quickly.

It was the old 2p piece pre-decimalisation (When we had pounds, shillings, pence). Back when our money was so confusing.

What do you have now?

[The Shrub Dragon]

What do you have now?

straight up pounds and pence; essentially the same as dollars and cents but a single pound is slightly more valuable than a single dollar

[Milsap]

Since 1971 We've had the same currency system as everyone else. Just two denominations. Before then it was twelve pence in a shilling and twenty shillings in a pound. So it was three denominations. Most people of today on this side of the pond don't get it either.

So now we have 5, 10, 20 and 50 pound notes (bills) with one and two pound coins then 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1 pence coins.


A tuppence in 1900 would be worth about 12p now