Lost nuts/seeds

The house behind me feeds the birds all year round. I only feed the hummingbirds. The lady that used to live next door to us used to get pecans from a friend of hers and put them out for the squirrels. The squirrels are always getting something out of our yard to eat but not sure what.

Hi grandpa Bob... Yes I feed the birds knowing that the squirrel and chippys will be eating it too! We have a chipmunk that we call "Hoover Chippy"...cuz he vacuums up the seed so fast.... I've been putting a separate bowl of feed under the steps for him...haven't seen him lately...probably too cold..but the squirrels have been running up and down the fence line..

When I lived up northw where it snowed. I did feed the birds every winter...summer to. I never had to worry about squirrels. I think because I had cats. So, no squirrels would dare come on my porch. But birds had no problem coming to the feeders. I know the bluebirds could be very aggressive and scare the rest of the birds away. So, did those awful squawky blackbirds.

We put out critter corn for the squirrels, and like to feed birds, when hubby remembers.

When I bother to fill the feeder, I put critter food in it because the cats like the squirrels better.

GB..I have a huge pecan tree in my backyard and let the birds and squirrels claim them for their food since I don't need them all... and you are right about them pesky squirrels..they will take anything for themselves

Well, we used to have Squirrels and birds that used to eat stuff we would leave for them, but then many of our neighbors in our Condos now own Cats so we see very few birds or squirrels looking for food around here anymore. I actually miss seeing them around here, as it was fun watching them sit on our Balcony and eat stuff we would leave out to feed them.

i do at times feed some squirrels here,as my kids love to watch them.here in some places ,there are lots of doves and i love to feed them religiosly in the mornings.

You sure seem to be having a great time, Bob!! I have absolutely no idea about the fun of feeding birds and squirrels during the snowy winter. Enjoy the winter! Cheers and happy mylotting

My sister has two hummingbirds living at her home in Seattle Washington. They have not migrated which I thought humming birds did. They are very hungry and so she feeds them all the time. The problem she is having is the nectar/sugar water freezes before they can drink it all. So she got a second feeder to keep in the house she she has one at room temp at all times so she can change them out.

We haven't gotten any snow yet. I throw crusts of bread out to the birds sometimes. My grandfather gave us a bird feeder one year. It didn't last too long. He feeds the birds and squirrels daily. It is on of his hobbies.

Hi GRANDPA BOB, I love squirrels and when I feed my birds in my garden, there are couple squirrels comes round and picked the bread up and scurreys away, the are so cute. Tamara

I wouldn't dare feed those little gray furry critters not after what they did to my house, I have a picture on my profile page where they chewed a hole in the side of my house that I had to have repaired and after they did that I vowed from now on they are on their own. If I can get a picture I will show you that your squirrel doesn't look like he is starving, he is fat compared to the squirrels I see in my back yard.

The squirels are crafty. We have them here but they never really come into the garden. Thats a great photograph of the squirel looking for the lost nuts. They are very smart. I always leave nuts out for the birds. I have a little Robin living in my garden. I bought him fat bells last week. They are full of fatty seed things and he loves them. During the spring it nested in my barbaque and it had three little baby robins.

I don't feed the birds. I would love to eventually get a bird feeder. I mean we have some beautiful birds around here and I would love to put a bird feeder up. I am just not sure what kind of feeder to get. I would love to see all the birds that we have around here.

I don't feed the birds in my garden as it's small and regularly occupied by my cat who even at 18 is a notorious hunter! Willow tends to frighten them off too. I do feed them at my employers though. He even has me making bird cake for them. He buys bird seed from the pet shop and keeps various packets of nuts which I chop up and has me melt suet to hold it all together. Some goes into a yogurt carton which hangs upside down from one bird table, some goes into a feeder that only the little birds can reach and the rest on the table. He can't get out much so it's great for him watching the birds, they regularly visit and this year a Robin has taken up residence in the hazel tree. We have quite mild but wet winters here in NW England and the birds are always happy for the helping hand. We don't have many squirrels in town but for several weeks he had me putting out cat food for the hedgehog that came nightly. I'm not a lover of the grey squirrel, they are responsible for the decline of our smaller native red squirrel which even in the Lake District it's a rare sight to see. However I wouldn't begrudge them a meal!

How lovely to have squirrels! We have blue-tongue lizards instead - they've just come out of hibernation and love to sun themselves on the warm paving stones next to the pond. They actually live underneath the pond, and slide back underneath when the sun goes in. We also have lots of kookaburras, which sit on the fence and laugh. It would certainly be hard feeding all your native animals in the snow!

I usually do feed the birds and squirrels but I haven't gotten around to buying them food yet.

awwwww, u'r so lucky! I wish we had squirrels around here w