Feeding The Crows

[hammerman]

I have a small bird feeder in the garden which until recently, has been used by dunnocks and blue tits.

however, today the cows visited and have emptied virtually the whole feeder in a few hours.

Now i adore crows and jackdaws so want to give them a bit more....any suggestions what i should put out for them and how it should be presented !!!

[ladybirder]

hammerman you could get one of the feeders that only lets in the small birds and chuck some stuff on the ground for the biggies.
http://shopping.rspb.org.uk/rspb-bird-feeder-guardian-small.html

[smurfchops]

They will eat bread, fat, meat, fish, anything soft. If it is too hard they will soak it in the birdbath. Fun to watch but the crows will scare away smaller birds and even magpies and jackdaws. They are very intelligent. I threw out some gristle and it ended up in the birdbath !

[hammerman]

The crows and jackdaws have been here for the past 15 years but only just found my feeder. I absolutely love em so would really like to give them lots of food.

[ladybirder]

I don't think there's much they don't eat hammerman.

[scooping]

As per earlier answers get smaller mesh for the little ones.

[Canary42]

Surely you can keep cows out of the garden

[corylus]

We have a large family of crows living round here, several generations, they never invade the garden feeders or steal food put out for the smaller birds but they watch me when I go out to feed the chickens and I always chuck a bit of wheat out on the field for them and I chuck bread out for them into the field, within SECONDS they flock to pick up the food, always a bit wary but never nasty, very clever birds.

[viv38]

Personally, I'd rather feed the little 'uns.

[Svejk]

sue the farmer.

[Birdfeeder]

bad enough standing under a tree when a bird lets drop but cows? doesn't bear thinking about