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Feed The Birds Day 2004
Tell us about the birds you've seen in your garden on our
bird-spotting
message board. | | FEELING PECKISH | | There's a range of food you can supply to help attract birds to your garden, from kitchen scraps to speciality seeds.
Here's what some of your garden favourites like to munch on.
Blackbirdslove fruit, peanuts and earthworms
Blue tits will enjoy peanut cake, sunflower hearts and seed mixes
Put out mealworms for house sparrows in the breeding season, but they also love sunflower hearts and seed mixes
Song thrushes will forage for earthworms, but also enjoy fruit and peanut granules
Kitchen scraps and live food are favourites for starlings, but they will also enjoy peanut cake and seed mixes
Peanuts, sunflowers hearts and seeds will help attract chaffinches to your garden
Robins love mealworms, waxworms, peanut granules, sunflower hearts and pinhead oats
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FACTFILE
| This feeding station has been set up in the BBC gardens as part of the RSPB's Feed the Birds Day, 2004. | | With the change in climate, some of the more unusual species of birds are visiting gardens in the South West. We want to hear which birds you have spotted - send your comments to our bird-spotting message board. | | If you spot an unusual visitor on our webcam, grab the picture and email it to us at devon.online@bbc.co.uk | Although a fair proportion of our birds migrate south in the winter in order to carry on eating their main food-source, insects, our resident birds have to compete with birds, such as thrushes and blackbirds, that have migrated here from northern countries, such as Scandinavia.
Top Twelve birds in Devon 2004 | | 1 | House sparrow | 7 | Great tit | | 2 | Blue tit | 8 | Robin | | 3 | Chaffinch | 9 | Dunnock | | 4 | Starling | 10 | Woodpigeon | | 5 | Blackbird | 11 | Coal tit | | 6 | Greenfinch | 12 | Collared dove |
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