Patience Rewarded

[maggiebee]

I put up a window bird seed feeder approx 2 months ago. Nary a bird has come near and I had just decided to take it down. However just about 10 minutes ago I had my first visitor - a wee sparrow (or spugie as we call them here). No doubt he will be back now he's found his own private feeding station!

[redman41]

It might be best to re-position the Feeder as the reflections in the glass could be scaring the Birds away

[gness]

Hi, Maggie....I put one on the utility room window a few weeks ago... I pulled the blind part way down but nothing happened for a couple of weeks till the starlings found it....
It was great.....they fed and fought for days....quite bravely even when I was just the other side of the window..until a pigeon landed on top and brought the whole lot crashing down....☺

[maggiebee]

Know what you mean redman, but the feeder is attached to the window with a sucker and can't go anywhere else. Hope the local pigeons don't find it gness.
Loads of young starlings around so maybe they will be next.

[ladybirder]

gness, the ones with the pointed roof are more difficult for the large birds to sit on. My first one was a flat-roofed one and as I was in a FFF it smashed to bits when it hit the ground. Is yours a flat top one? Or should it be was it?

[ladybirder]

Maggie meant to say Congratulations, it's brilliant when they start to come at last isn't it. I wonder if Excel has had any yet; probably not or we would have heard.

[maggiebee]

Oh no - ruddy pigeons have found it and what a mess they are making. Will have to rethink its position.