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I have no idea how much the average cost of a feeder, food, etc, is, and I was hoping others could share their average spend on birds! How much would you say a feeder should cost? How much money on food per week? Any input is valuable to someone with a small income a month!

Taken in my garden, two landing on a feeder as another is leaving.

Apart from next door what's the rest of your neighbourhood like? Do you see sparrows, finches doves or pigeons in your locality? I think the food you use can make a big difference. Next door to me the neighbour's feeders get very few visitors compared to mine. I think this might be because...

Morning all, The days are starting to fly - we're already onto day 17. Most of the photographs were taken by visitors and added to Saltholme's facebook group. This brilliantly colourful blue tit was taken by Konrad Sojka. Call back tomorrow for something new. Ben.

Last Christmas we were given one of the RSPB Window Bird Feeders which is a great idea and we want to use it successfuly but no birds will come to it. Last year, after trying different food types, I eventually ended up taking the food out of it and putting it on the bird table where it vanished in a...

thats good to hear. Is bread OK or not? On the radio recently they said we shouldnt use it?

Hi - can I feed the birds in my garden all year round? Im gearing up to start again now but have not fed my birds over the Summer. I read somewhere that all year round feeding is the right thing to do and now feel bad that I stopped in March....

Hi - can I feed the birds in my garden all year round? Im gearing up to start again now but have not fed my birds over the Summer. I read somewhere that all year round feeding is the right thing to do and now feel bad that I stopped in March....

Ring necked Parakeet taken in my garden, in the Forest of Dean, last week 18.10.2010

Hello, this is old news for me, but I have only just joined the RSPB community so I wanted to share it with you all as a warning. We have always had a variety of bird feeders - from old flower pot saucers to very modern nijer feeders. Amongst them we have a variety of feeders for fat balls - including...

Apart from nuts and seeds, I started putting out cheap Morrisons flapjack for the birds and they love it. Among those heading for the treat are blackbirds, sparrows, starlings and robins. Only the woodpigeons don't seem interested.

Hi all, Hope you can help! I've just recently started feeding birds in my small urban garden. But I'm unsure how often to change the food i put out. I'm using: Peanuts, Seed Cake, Fat Cakes, Half a Coconut with Fat and Mealworms, and fat balls. Any help would be appreciated as...

Great Tit feeding on nuts on garden

This was taken yesterday morning following the frost. It's not the clearest of photographs but then it was taken through my kitchen window from quite a distance. I quite like the way the bird has bits of nut shell stuck to his beak.