They will thank you by bringing life and colour to your garden Lovely to see, must be a treat to feel the warmth of the food. Merry 🎄 Christmas to you and the birds.🕊️
I live in Paris and I found a solution that works. I bought 2 tiny wooden house and put seeds inside. The hole to enter is too small for pigeons, only smaller birds can enter. I put that on my balcony because there is a huge hotel for sparrows in the « garden » outside. It’s a big tree who keep his leafs on winter. I saw tiny sparrows, red throats, greenfish entering the tiny house to eat. One of them even stay there a whole day when it snowed some weeks ago 😂
That little robin is such a cutie! Here in America, what we call robins are really migratory thrushes, but they are such welcome and adorable signs of spring. It has gotten down to 10 below here in Vermont. I just don't know how the tiny chickadees and juncos stay warm! God bless you for caring for the beautiful wild birds.
Thanks for being kind to the animals! I like the idea of mashed potatoes and leftovers! I pour out warm to hot water into bird bath for the winter. We get birds, squirrels and crows sometimes. A good crowd.
We’ve got a few wrens around but I’ve never seen them eating with the other birds. They often follow the barn cat around, hollering at him, haha. I did record a wren nest last Spring, there’s a video on my channel. The nest was at waist height, stuck to a tree trunk. Just noticed it one day walking in the woodland. Set up a long lens camera and left it for a few hours to observe, so they wouldn’t be bothered.
I always think of the animals. We put put our vegetable scraps out, and have a special place for meat scraps for carnivorous animals. My husband feeds the bread scraps to the birds and the fish (we have a pond).
That was nice. I loved seeing what Scottish robins look like. And the warm food probably felt really good to that bird standing on the pile of warm food! Happy holidays to you from northern California!!
They are actually the European Robin, they’re all over Europe, not just Scotland. They’re my favourite bird, I have them nesting in my garden in spring 😊
I feel bad for them when the ground and water is frozen solid 🥹 They do get bird seed too but they will persist in trying to steal the barn cat’s wet food. Risky business!
This is rough but we came across a dead Praying Mantis on a walkway on side of house this past Summer. I love them and usually have seen a female in our Boxwood bushes in front. I feel like the sun was extremely m unusually bright🎉 and the animals must have had a tough time of it. We had veggie garden and flowers so there was some watering going on most days but I wish I had done more for birds, etc with seed and water and even little plates of water for bugs. I did have great Lavender plants and the bees were happy. Was devastated to see that Praying Mantis though.
Aah that’s a shame 😕 we had an unusually hot and dry April - May this year and the birds were struggling. A lot of them were still feeding babies in nests. I was observing one nest in particular in a rotten post in the garden. At first the parents were bringing lots of juicy caterpillars. But then the weather got hot and time passed, the parents were away for longer and longer and were mostly just returning with little flies or spindly mosquito looking insects. They had 8 chicks and they’d got quite big but the parents were starting to look a little rough around the edges, and looked to have lost weight, so we put some sunflower hearts near the nest and then they were flying there and taking seeds back to the nest like a relay. They still brought insects too, which the chicks would need for water, but I think it took some strain off them. And all 8 chicks survived to fledging. Might have lost a couple otherwise, because they really didn’t seem to be finding much food for them. I’ve got a video of that nest on my channel, ‘Blue Tit Chicks Almost Ready to Fledge’. I’ve got other footage that I plan on editing into a video for next Spring. 😊
Such sweet little birds! I live in the US West coast and feed many birds on my bakcony. Mostly stellers jays, sparrows, finches, and woodpeckers. They love certain leftovers including my picky cat's leftover food, wet and dry. They love it. 🐦🐦🐦
Oh yeah, our robins are so determined to get some of the barn cat’s wet food they’ll actually run up to the bowl while he’s eating and try to grab any little bits that fell out the dish 😬
It was leftover beef and potatoes (boiled to remove salt) mashed together 😊 Robins seem to like meaty foods - they like to have a go at stealing wet cat food from the barn cat, even though there’s bird seed available. I tried giving them mealworms but they didn’t seem to understand they were food. 🤔
Fortunately they never seem to stray round this side of the house, but they do have a go at the bird seed round the back garden. It’d be fine if they were red squirrels but the grey are invasive and I’ve seen them chasing reds 😕
@@WildlifeInScotland Yep, the greys chase off allcomers:- the pheasants, blackbirds etc etc. but we've purchased a baffle that stops them getting up pole of the bird feeding station comprising sunflower seed hearts, suet, peanuts and fat balls. When we feed the pheasants by putting some seeds on the grass we have to stay close by so that the greys don't do an outrun and then scare them off.
We gave the magpies sausage and bow tie pasta today, it was really cold so they need that here in western Canada. They get all meat scraps and love fat. This is recycling for the birds
I live in South London and we have a large garden which used to be full of garden birds, but now it’s mostly pigeons, magpies, crows and yellow parakeets which I’m not keen on. I wonder why? We do get the odd robin though but there was one that became quite tame years ago.
You’re not the first person I’ve heard saying that recently 😕 We’ve been feeding the birds for years now, I suspect that supplementing their food supply for so long has increased their numbers to well above average around here. But I’ve still noticed a decline in some species, like yellowhammers. Haven’t seen as many woodpeckers this year either. I used to hear them pecking in the distance all the time. Did see one the other day. I visited London recently and was fairly puzzled by the parakeets. I’m not sure what’s causing the bird decline but I hope they bounce back. Might be a few different things contributing. I know cats are one element people bring up, since the majority of cats in the UK go outdoors. We’ve seen cats around here eating little birds when presented with the opportunity 😐
@@WildlifeInScotland Yes, actually we also get jays. In fact it occurred to me it’s the larger birds that may be a problem as both jays and magpies eat other birds and those magpies are quite aggressive. It’s the blackbirds, song thrushes, blue tits and sparrows I miss. I used to love watching the sparrows washing themselves in our birdbath but haven’t seen them doing that for around three or four years. I also used to love listening to a song thrush singing on a summer’s evening. Re the cats, yes I agree, our neighbours have two cats which are outdoor cats and they spend their days sitting on their garden shed roof looking for birds. On occasion I’d see one of them hiding next to a bush in our garden in that stance they assume when they’re ready to pounce on some poor unsuspecting bird. One day I noticed an amount of birds feathers on the lawn and assumed a fox had killed a bird (possibly a pigeon from the colour of the feathers). As we have cctv all around our house I rewound to the relevant section and was surprised to see footage of a sparrow hawk swoop at a pigeon in flight and bring it down pinning it to the ground and stand on its neck whilst starting to peck feathers off the pigeon…it did this for around two minutes with the pigeon occasionally struggling, but then a giant crow came and landed nearby observing the scene and it caused the hawk to abandon its prey and fly away leaving the pigeon to get itself together and fly off. PS. We used to get the odd woodpecker but again haven’t seen one for at least four years.
Oh yes, I’ve definitely seen larger birds taking small birds sometimes. It’s horrible. What really broke my heart last spring was there was a tree creeper making a nest in a large half rotten fence post in the garden. I observed it for days, it was taking tons of twigs into the post. It was just before I started recording content. But I was aware the hole it was going into was quite close to the ground, around knee height. And then one morning I came out and the badgers had scratched their way through the rotten wood into the post and eaten it. I found one tree creeper leg on the ground and it just seemed so utterly wasteful because they’re quite rare, and the food value of such a tiny bird to a badger would be nothing at all. And we already gave the badgers dog biscuits at the time because they had babies! Fortunately the blue tit nest in the top of the post was alright and produced 8 chicks. 🥲 Still sad about that tree creeper though.
Parakeets ? Aren’t they mainly in Australia though? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m an American after all. I remember parakeets as the exotic tropical bird that makes a great starter pet for your kid .. parakeets /budgies, idk if there is a difference
Not to worry, when it was put out it was just warm rather than hot, and likely cooled quickly since it was so cold outside. I just said hot because of the phrase ‘hot meal on a cold day’.
We have a window feeder and we've been getting more blue tits recently, plus the regular sparrow gang and a few dunnocks. But our resident robin is a fiend! He chases and harasses all the other birds when they try and take some food. He sits outside our window most of the day waiting till another bird lands on the feeder so he can chase them away! He's so cute and fluffy but he's a right rascal.
Ahaha what a little delinquent. Ours think they can take on the stray/barn cat, they’ll start getting dangerously close while he’s eating because they want to steal some cat food. Even though there’s seeds on a much safer bird table!
Oh I’ve totally noticed that too ahaha. Sometimes they also stand stretched up tall and their legs look bizarrely long and skinny compared to their bodies 😂
Don't robins usually migrate before it becomes cold? We have tonnes of robins here but they all go away before November comes and aren't back until late March, and it hasn't even been that cold here lately, barely any snow. They are beautiful birds, though, and very plump. There was one all spring and summer next to my window that started chirping from 3 in the morning and didn't stop until 8 in the evening. I couldn't take it anymore and yelled 'shut up' into the dark out my window at 3:30AM one day. It stopped for ten seconds, then kept chirping more loudly!
Ahaha I’ve read that the singing is how they assert ownership over their territory, that robin must have been hardcore defending their territory, singing all through the night to ward off other male robins 😂 In spring here there were several new boy robins all singing at each other from different parts of the garden, fields and woodland. Almost like a conversation with turn taking. From googling it seems like they migrate if they’re struggling to find food, and it’s mostly females that migrate, but they stay if if they’re happy with their food supply 🤔
We have the opposite in my garden, one regular robin will stay all winter but disappears when spring comes. I think it moves to it's mate's territory to have babies, we see them together sometimes.
It's very nice to do a good thing for birds,when everywhere is snowy!! But,You should better give them some nuts,it's more valueable for them, then a warm meal,with bread!!!
There’s no bread, it’s boiled beef and potato with no seasoning. But they do get given seeds around the back of the house 😊 we give sunflower hearts, berry bird suet and fat balls made from seeds and fat, but the robins don’t eat those. I tried to give the robins dry mealworms but they didn’t seem to understand they were food, they just looked at them. I soaked them in water too and they still didn’t eat them 🤔
@WildlifeInScotland I didn't want to be a teacher!!! On the picture I couldn't see all of those tasty things!! Next life I will become a bird visting You!! Merry Christmas and a happy,happy new Year!!!
They can have potatoes, the RSPB says unseasoned cooked potatoes are one of the foods you can give wild birds. If you’re not from the UK, RSPB stands for The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - they operate throughout the UK.
I could see that if they were fried, but the potatoes were cubed then boiled in water, and were crumbling in my fingers without leaving any sort of sticky or slippy residue, so I was content with that. 🙂
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@witcoin54 I’m mindful of what I put out - the beef was already a reduced salt product, but it also got boiled and rinsed to get any remaining salt out of it, before being mixed with the unseasoned potatoes. Figured it had to be better than the cat food they’ve been stealing from the barn cat, which does have minerals like salt added. And the added bonus of reducing the risk of being eaten by the cat 😅 Edit to add they do also have access to water and bird seed. I tried mealworms but they just seemed rather perplexed by them tbh. Had a good look, didn’t touch them 🤔
@@datgrrl_official i did not harrass i indirectly asked a question, it wasnt spam as i am interested in birds and i was hoping i can appreciate the video
@witcoin54 I do hope that you are doing your bit to help the birds. You realise that it takes an ability to be reliable with a daily routine of feeding appropriate food, keeping the water supplies in working order and providing shelter through sensible planting choices. I do hope that you are looking after the birds as well as this person.
hope it was NOT salted??? As this ruins and damages birds kidneys ove rtime!! Please feed them dried mealworms from Amazon instead! Or unsweetened raisins
It wasn’t salted 😊 actually got boiled to reduce salt as much as possible. I did try mealworms already, I tried them dry and soaked in water but the robins didn’t seem to understand it was food. They looked at it, didn’t eat any. Neither did any of the other birds. I tried several times. Barn cat enjoyed the mealworms though 🥴
The environment has a bounty of food in which to choose from, wildlife doesn’t need our help and certainly shouldn’t be eating human food (hot or cold). I do see your intention to connect with animals is admirable but please don’t feed them human food. There are tons of healthy food options for birds that you could plant in your garden that would be a welcome treat for them. Please do your research and be a protector and not harmed of wildlife.❤
@@Iris_Transforms_Healing In fairness, they’re offered food scraps very rarely. They were already repeatedly offered mealworms, dry and soaked, but didn’t seem to know what to do with them. They have access to sunflower hearts too. But they are more so in the habit of stealing food from the stray/barn cat on the property, to the point where they’re running up to the cat and trying to grab wet food out the bowl while he’s eating. The cat already ate one robin last week, it seemed better to offer an alternative to cat food when the ground is frozen and they’re clearly throwing caution to the wind, risking death by cat for some wet meaty food. 😩
Most wildlife charities, including the RSPB, ask us to give wildlife a little extra help in winter months. Years ago people put out all sorts of scraps -well intentioned but perhaps not ideal. As long as the food is not salty, there is access to fresh water, and the animals are not entirely dependent on the extra food, everything should be fine.
They do need our help because humans are destroying their habitats and encroaching on their homes more and more. I live in an urban area and I have so many opossums, skunks, raccoons, and squirrels that live around my house. I feed them all because there are no forests around for them. I let them live in my yard and garage. They don't do any harm. We need to help all animals.
Please do not misinform people on the wellbeing of wildlife, in winter there is definitely no bounty of food to choose from and due to the impact of humans on the ecosystem there are also shortages in warmer seasons. As long as the food is not seasoned and contains no salt the birds can strengthen themselves very well.
This is just lovely
Thanks 😊
Thank you for looking after the Beautiful Birds
They will thank you by bringing life and colour to your garden
Lovely to see, must be a treat to feel the warmth of the food.
Merry 🎄 Christmas to you and the birds.🕊️
Thank you! 😊 Merry Christmas to you too! 🎄
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Every time I put stuff out for the smaller birds fat pigeons appear and devour everything.
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@@ravendark2422 Yes and their numbers are increasing.
Time to make pigeon pie.
I live in Paris and I found a solution that works. I bought 2 tiny wooden house and put seeds inside. The hole to enter is too small for pigeons, only smaller birds can enter. I put that on my balcony because there is a huge hotel for sparrows in the « garden » outside. It’s a big tree who keep his leafs on winter. I saw tiny sparrows, red throats, greenfish entering the tiny house to eat. One of them even stay there a whole day when it snowed some weeks ago 😂
Pigeons are hungry as well.
Please be Kind to them.
That little robin is such a cutie! Here in America, what we call robins are really migratory thrushes, but they are such welcome and adorable signs of spring. It has gotten down to 10 below here in Vermont. I just don't know how the tiny chickadees and juncos stay warm! God bless you for caring for the beautiful wild birds.
I can't believe they stand on those skinny legs 🤪
They are SUCH a beautiful bird 💟❤️🩹💝💕
Ahaha I know right? They’re always comically bobbing up and down too 🤣
this i honestly the sort of videos that give me hopein humanity
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So pleased to find a kindred soul who feeds God's little creatures too. Loved watching. Thanks from New Zealand.
Thanks for watching 😊❤️
Thanks for being kind to the animals! I like the idea of mashed potatoes and leftovers! I pour out warm to hot water into bird bath for the winter. We get birds, squirrels and crows sometimes. A good crowd.
We make sure they get warm water when it’s cold too 😊 just so they all get a chance to have a drink etc before it freezes again.
I think it's so important to feed the birds especially in Winter❤
The birds are so greatful that you did this .
Awww that’s lovely, we have a regular robin and tiny wren visit us every day amongst the other birds that come. They seem to eat anything!
We’ve got a few wrens around but I’ve never seen them eating with the other birds. They often follow the barn cat around, hollering at him, haha. I did record a wren nest last Spring, there’s a video on my channel. The nest was at waist height, stuck to a tree trunk. Just noticed it one day walking in the woodland. Set up a long lens camera and left it for a few hours to observe, so they wouldn’t be bothered.
Wow. Wonderful feel good video. Thanks a lot.
Glad you liked it! 😊
I really enjoyed watching these birds having a hot meal on a cold day. Thanks for sharing!
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I always think of the animals. We put put our vegetable scraps out, and have a special place for meat scraps for carnivorous animals. My husband feeds the bread scraps to the birds and the fish (we have a pond).
This is so lovely!!! Made me smile !! :^) Thank you for doing this, I’m sure all those beautiful birdies appreciate it
Glad you liked it! 😊
That was nice. I loved seeing what Scottish robins look like. And the warm food probably felt really good to that bird standing on the pile of warm food! Happy holidays to you from northern California!!
They are actually the European Robin, they’re all over Europe, not just Scotland. They’re my favourite bird, I have them nesting in my garden in spring 😊
Thanks very much 😊 Have a nice Christmas! 🎄
Your European robins look like a mix of bluebird & robin, just lovely! I will try this potato idea!
They are cute. Very rotund, and very curious, haha!
God bless those who are kinds to birds and animals.
Thank you very much. Merry Christmas to you and your birds. Blessings, health, love and peace to you and your friends 🌟🌟🎄🌟🌟💖🌟🌟
Thank you! 😊 And the same to you! 🎄
How gorgeous. I put out lots of lovely food for the birds and along came the Starlings 😱
I have squirrel hordes!
Thank you for sharing these sweet moments ❤❤❤
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Thank you for sharing a nice little meal as well as the results :)
Very sweet little video
😊 Thank you!
The thinner their legs the more nervous they seem.
Looks delicious! Lucky birdies. 🎄✨👍
those pigeons with big bellies swoop and devour everything, it's just the little Robins I feel for, they are lovely birds.
That's really nice. I didn't know about giving them a hot meal-I will try it.
I feel bad for them when the ground and water is frozen solid 🥹 They do get bird seed too but they will persist in trying to steal the barn cat’s wet food. Risky business!
Please no salt or spices for the birds. It's bad for their kidneys and their liver. Otherwise, anything goes. Birds luv human food.
Sweet and cute birbs!!!!❤😊
I really enjoyed the birds eating a special hot meal. Have a blessed Christmas and New Year!
Adorable birbs
Cute dinosaurs you've got there.
No I don't feed dinosaurs
This is rough but we came across a dead Praying Mantis on a walkway on side of house this past Summer. I love them and usually have seen a female in our Boxwood bushes in front. I feel like the sun was extremely m unusually bright🎉 and the animals must have had a tough time of it. We had veggie garden and flowers so there was some watering going on most days but I wish I had done more for birds, etc with seed and water and even little plates of water for bugs. I did have great Lavender plants and the bees were happy. Was devastated to see that Praying Mantis though.
Aah that’s a shame 😕 we had an unusually hot and dry April - May this year and the birds were struggling. A lot of them were still feeding babies in nests. I was observing one nest in particular in a rotten post in the garden. At first the parents were bringing lots of juicy caterpillars. But then the weather got hot and time passed, the parents were away for longer and longer and were mostly just returning with little flies or spindly mosquito looking insects. They had 8 chicks and they’d got quite big but the parents were starting to look a little rough around the edges, and looked to have lost weight, so we put some sunflower hearts near the nest and then they were flying there and taking seeds back to the nest like a relay. They still brought insects too, which the chicks would need for water, but I think it took some strain off them. And all 8 chicks survived to fledging. Might have lost a couple otherwise, because they really didn’t seem to be finding much food for them. I’ve got a video of that nest on my channel, ‘Blue Tit Chicks Almost Ready to Fledge’. I’ve got other footage that I plan on editing into a video for next Spring. 😊
They would really have appreciated thier warming meal. ❤👍
BEAUTIFUL VIDEO, HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE PEACE AND HAPPINESS TO ALL,❤
Brave sirs robins.
If you all had Blue Jay's, that plate would be empty in 2 minutes flat.
They're cuter than the American Robins.
Such sweet little birds! I live in the US West coast and feed many birds on my bakcony. Mostly stellers jays, sparrows, finches, and woodpeckers. They love certain leftovers including my picky cat's leftover food, wet and dry. They love it. 🐦🐦🐦
Oh, I noticed a few negative replies here and to clarify, the cat food is maybe 1% at most. The rest is high quality wild bird fare.
Oh yeah, our robins are so determined to get some of the barn cat’s wet food they’ll actually run up to the bowl while he’s eating and try to grab any little bits that fell out the dish 😬
Great job.
Can I ask what the food is? Lovely video 👍🏻
It was leftover beef and potatoes (boiled to remove salt) mashed together 😊 Robins seem to like meaty foods - they like to have a go at stealing wet cat food from the barn cat, even though there’s bird seed available. I tried giving them mealworms but they didn’t seem to understand they were food. 🤔
Such a charming video, I just subscribed.
Thanks very much 😊
¿Qué tiene el plato?. Rico manjar.👏😊
Carne hervida y patatas 😊 Sin condimento.
Beautiful.... like "my left beak"
I'm surprised the squirrels don't gobble it up.
Fortunately they never seem to stray round this side of the house, but they do have a go at the bird seed round the back garden. It’d be fine if they were red squirrels but the grey are invasive and I’ve seen them chasing reds 😕
@@WildlifeInScotland Yep, the greys chase off allcomers:- the pheasants, blackbirds etc etc. but we've purchased a baffle that stops them getting up pole of the bird feeding station comprising sunflower seed hearts, suet, peanuts and fat balls.
When we feed the pheasants by putting some seeds on the grass we have to stay close by so that the greys don't do an outrun and then scare them off.
We gave the magpies sausage and bow tie pasta today, it was really cold so they need that here in western Canada. They get all meat scraps and love fat. This is recycling for the birds
this is VERY bad for the health of birds! Salts n spices ruin their kodneys! Please buy bird seeds instead!
@@combatduckie They eat scraps out of dumpsters.
I live in South London and we have a large garden which used to be full of garden birds, but now it’s mostly pigeons, magpies, crows and yellow parakeets which I’m not keen on. I wonder why? We do get the odd robin though but there was one that became quite tame years ago.
You’re not the first person I’ve heard saying that recently 😕 We’ve been feeding the birds for years now, I suspect that supplementing their food supply for so long has increased their numbers to well above average around here. But I’ve still noticed a decline in some species, like yellowhammers. Haven’t seen as many woodpeckers this year either. I used to hear them pecking in the distance all the time. Did see one the other day.
I visited London recently and was fairly puzzled by the parakeets. I’m not sure what’s causing the bird decline but I hope they bounce back. Might be a few different things contributing. I know cats are one element people bring up, since the majority of cats in the UK go outdoors. We’ve seen cats around here eating little birds when presented with the opportunity 😐
@@WildlifeInScotland Yes, actually we also get jays. In fact it occurred to me it’s the larger birds that may be a problem as both jays and magpies eat other birds and those magpies are quite aggressive. It’s the blackbirds, song thrushes, blue tits and sparrows I miss. I used to love watching the sparrows washing themselves in our birdbath but haven’t seen them doing that for around three or four years. I also used to love listening to a song thrush singing on a summer’s evening. Re the cats, yes I agree, our neighbours have two cats which are outdoor cats and they spend their days sitting on their garden shed roof looking for birds. On occasion I’d see one of them hiding next to a bush in our garden in that stance they assume when they’re ready to pounce on some poor unsuspecting bird. One day I noticed an amount of birds feathers on the lawn and assumed a fox had killed a bird (possibly a pigeon from the colour of the feathers). As we have cctv all around our house I rewound to the relevant section and was surprised to see footage of a sparrow hawk swoop at a pigeon in flight and bring it down pinning it to the ground and stand on its neck whilst starting to peck feathers off the pigeon…it did this for around two minutes with the pigeon occasionally struggling, but then a giant crow came and landed nearby observing the scene and it caused the hawk to abandon its prey and fly away leaving the pigeon to get itself together and fly off. PS. We used to get the odd woodpecker but again haven’t seen one for at least four years.
Oh yes, I’ve definitely seen larger birds taking small birds sometimes. It’s horrible. What really broke my heart last spring was there was a tree creeper making a nest in a large half rotten fence post in the garden. I observed it for days, it was taking tons of twigs into the post. It was just before I started recording content. But I was aware the hole it was going into was quite close to the ground, around knee height. And then one morning I came out and the badgers had scratched their way through the rotten wood into the post and eaten it. I found one tree creeper leg on the ground and it just seemed so utterly wasteful because they’re quite rare, and the food value of such a tiny bird to a badger would be nothing at all. And we already gave the badgers dog biscuits at the time because they had babies! Fortunately the blue tit nest in the top of the post was alright and produced 8 chicks. 🥲 Still sad about that tree creeper though.
@@WildlifeInScotland Yes very sad. Thank you for the conversation. It’s good to compare notes from one end of the UK to the other!
Parakeets ? Aren’t they mainly in Australia though? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I’m an American after all. I remember parakeets as the exotic tropical bird that makes a great starter pet for your kid .. parakeets /budgies, idk if there is a difference
What are you feeding them ? Have a Great New Year everyone
@@Elfrida-ls2mo Leftover beef that was boiled to remove any salt and mashed up with unseasoned boiled potatoes 😊
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Thanks a lot for feeding the birds 🙏🏻
Nice Video. Sub is out.
Thank you! 😊
I can’t work out what the food is?
Unseasoned beef and potatoes (boiled and mashed together) 🙂
It's not natural for birds food to be hot. Bad idea.
Not to worry, when it was put out it was just warm rather than hot, and likely cooled quickly since it was so cold outside. I just said hot because of the phrase ‘hot meal on a cold day’.
We have a window feeder and we've been getting more blue tits recently, plus the regular sparrow gang and a few dunnocks. But our resident robin is a fiend! He chases and harasses all the other birds when they try and take some food. He sits outside our window most of the day waiting till another bird lands on the feeder so he can chase them away! He's so cute and fluffy but he's a right rascal.
Ahaha what a little delinquent. Ours think they can take on the stray/barn cat, they’ll start getting dangerously close while he’s eating because they want to steal some cat food. Even though there’s seeds on a much safer bird table!
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Silly observation, but of the birds shown, robins have extremely thin legs!
Oh I’ve totally noticed that too ahaha. Sometimes they also stand stretched up tall and their legs look bizarrely long and skinny compared to their bodies 😂
Don't robins usually migrate before it becomes cold? We have tonnes of robins here but they all go away before November comes and aren't back until late March, and it hasn't even been that cold here lately, barely any snow. They are beautiful birds, though, and very plump. There was one all spring and summer next to my window that started chirping from 3 in the morning and didn't stop until 8 in the evening. I couldn't take it anymore and yelled 'shut up' into the dark out my window at 3:30AM one day. It stopped for ten seconds, then kept chirping more loudly!
Ahaha I’ve read that the singing is how they assert ownership over their territory, that robin must have been hardcore defending their territory, singing all through the night to ward off other male robins 😂 In spring here there were several new boy robins all singing at each other from different parts of the garden, fields and woodland. Almost like a conversation with turn taking.
From googling it seems like they migrate if they’re struggling to find food, and it’s mostly females that migrate, but they stay if if they’re happy with their food supply 🤔
We have the opposite in my garden, one regular robin will stay all winter but disappears when spring comes. I think it moves to it's mate's territory to have babies, we see them together sometimes.
It's very nice to do a good thing for birds,when everywhere is snowy!!
But,You should better give them some nuts,it's more valueable for them, then a warm meal,with bread!!!
There’s no bread, it’s boiled beef and potato with no seasoning. But they do get given seeds around the back of the house 😊 we give sunflower hearts, berry bird suet and fat balls made from seeds and fat, but the robins don’t eat those. I tried to give the robins dry mealworms but they didn’t seem to understand they were food, they just looked at them. I soaked them in water too and they still didn’t eat them 🤔
@WildlifeInScotland I didn't want to be a teacher!!!
On the picture I couldn't see all of those tasty things!!
Next life I will become a bird visting You!!
Merry Christmas and a happy,happy new Year!!!
potatoes are not for Birds. Why didn't you know it ?
They can have potatoes, the RSPB says unseasoned cooked potatoes are one of the foods you can give wild birds. If you’re not from the UK, RSPB stands for The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds - they operate throughout the UK.
cute
@@5un5hine1 They are, they’re always bobbing around having a look at what you’re doing outside 😂
I’ve read that cooked starches is like a glue to their beaks. It can glue their beaks shut. Otherwise it would have been a wonderful idea.
I could see that if they were fried, but the potatoes were cubed then boiled in water, and were crumbling in my fingers without leaving any sort of sticky or slippy residue, so I was content with that. 🙂
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i hope that that food didnt have salt in it
@witcoin54 I’m mindful of what I put out - the beef was already a reduced salt product, but it also got boiled and rinsed to get any remaining salt out of it, before being mixed with the unseasoned potatoes. Figured it had to be better than the cat food they’ve been stealing from the barn cat, which does have minerals like salt added. And the added bonus of reducing the risk of being eaten by the cat 😅
Edit to add they do also have access to water and bird seed. I tried mealworms but they just seemed rather perplexed by them tbh. Had a good look, didn’t touch them 🤔
Oh God. Shut up. They'll eat straight out of the dumpster.
@@datgrrl_official i did not harrass i indirectly asked a question, it wasnt spam as i am interested in birds and i was hoping i can appreciate the video
@witcoin54 I do hope that you are doing your bit to help the birds. You realise that it takes an ability to be reliable with a daily routine of feeding appropriate food, keeping the water supplies in working order and providing shelter through sensible planting choices.
I do hope that you are looking after the birds as well as this person.
They are robins. Don’t do that!
The robins demand sustenance 😛
hope it was NOT salted??? As this ruins and damages birds kidneys ove rtime!! Please feed them dried mealworms from Amazon instead! Or unsweetened raisins
It wasn’t salted 😊 actually got boiled to reduce salt as much as possible. I did try mealworms already, I tried them dry and soaked in water but the robins didn’t seem to understand it was food. They looked at it, didn’t eat any. Neither did any of the other birds. I tried several times. Barn cat enjoyed the mealworms though 🥴
SJW??? Is that you? Stop harassing, denigrating, and spamming princess.
The environment has a bounty of food in which to choose from, wildlife doesn’t need our help and certainly shouldn’t be eating human food (hot or cold). I do see your intention to connect with animals is admirable but please don’t feed them human food. There are tons of healthy food options for birds that you could plant in your garden that would be a welcome treat for them. Please do your research and be a protector and not harmed of wildlife.❤
@@Iris_Transforms_Healing In fairness, they’re offered food scraps very rarely. They were already repeatedly offered mealworms, dry and soaked, but didn’t seem to know what to do with them. They have access to sunflower hearts too. But they are more so in the habit of stealing food from the stray/barn cat on the property, to the point where they’re running up to the cat and trying to grab wet food out the bowl while he’s eating. The cat already ate one robin last week, it seemed better to offer an alternative to cat food when the ground is frozen and they’re clearly throwing caution to the wind, risking death by cat for some wet meaty food. 😩
Most wildlife charities, including the RSPB, ask us to give wildlife a little extra help in winter months. Years ago people put out all sorts of scraps -well intentioned but perhaps not ideal. As long as the food is not salty, there is access to fresh water, and the animals are not entirely dependent on the extra food, everything should be fine.
They do need our help because humans are destroying their habitats and encroaching on their homes more and more. I live in an urban area and I have so many opossums, skunks, raccoons, and squirrels that live around my house. I feed them all because there are no forests around for them. I let them live in my yard and garage. They don't do any harm. We need to help all animals.
Please do not misinform people on the wellbeing of wildlife, in winter there is definitely no bounty of food to choose from and due to the impact of humans on the ecosystem there are also shortages in warmer seasons. As long as the food is not seasoned and contains no salt the birds can strengthen themselves very well.