What food do you put in/on your outside bird table/trays ?

[Dave7]

Reason for asking is someone has kindly bought me a feed as a present. Its got spikes to push into the soil and it got 2 flat round bowl/trays about 10" dia with maybe 1" sides.
What puzzles me is that with our weather they are going to get full of rain water.
I have various other feeders of the cage or plastic seed variety which are fine but I've never had this type.

 

[raleighnut]

Wild Bird seed mix and Suet blocks, both on hanging feeders on the Tree at the front and a pole with water bowl and tray at the back of the house but then we support a flock of @80 Sparrows living in the Ivy up the side of the house.

 

[Dave7]

Wild Bird seed mix and Suet blocks, both on hanging feeders on the Tree at the front and a pole with water bowl and tray at the back of the house but then we support a flock of @80 Sparrows living in the Ivy up the side of the house.

Ive got all that out, its these flat bowls that puzzle me.

 

[dicko]

Peckish, the birds (and our Squirrel) loves the stuff. Peckish won’t seed so if it gets dropped onto the garden it is harmless and will be eaten by the larger birds. It certainly attracts a host of different birds. Buy in bulk it lasts for a couple of years.

 

[midlife]

If it’s flat then seed, sunflower hearts, small suet pellets, mealworms, that sort of thing ?

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

My mum quite randomly gave me a window bird feeder a year ago, that secures via suction cups and holds firm. However, we haven't seen birds in the garden since the massive willow tree was chopped down almost three years ago, went to refill the feeder last autumn to find mould spores in the large bag of seed that mum gave us with the feeder and had opened when setting things up.

Apparently mouldy bird seed is deadly toxic to birds, so the bag got chucked and we didn't help our non-existant feathered friends out over this last winter.

 

[Dave7]

My mum quite randomly gave me a window bird feeder a year ago, that secures via suction cups and holds firm. However, we haven't seen birds in the garden since the massive willow tree was chopped down almost three years ago, went to refill the feeder last autumn to find mould spores in the large bag of seed that mum gave us with the feeder and had opened when setting things up.

Apparently mouldy bird seed is deadly toxic to birds, so the bag got chucked and we didn't help our non-existant feathered friends out over this last winter.

I have a window feeder, a present off my son and DiL. Its on my patio door and under the canopy so its dry. I get blue tits and sparrows using it.

 

[geocycle]

The main problem with the flat dishes is the birds make a mess underneath. They will be good for Robins, Dunnocks, blackbirds and pigeons. Unfortunately they can also attract rodents so don’t overfill.