Thank you! Ooh, fat blocks are a great idea. I worry about having a table out, though, because of the cat. Our cat is too lazy these days to go after birds hanging from feeders, but I worry that if we put out a table he'd see that as a cat buffet. :/
The large toroid fat ball feeder is definitely the more popular of the two, and is always emptied first. The blue and great tits obviously prefer it to the smaller cylindrical feeder in the foreground, as do less frequent visitors like the woodpecker, starlings and long-tailed tits. The sparrows don't seem to care.
The only "down" side of the toroid fat ball feeder is that it takes so many fat balls at once (8-10) that keeping it full gets quite expensive over the cold bit of winter, when the birds are emptying it every couple of days!
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Date: 2015-04-01 07:50 am (UTC)The large toroid fat ball feeder is definitely the more popular of the two, and is always emptied first. The blue and great tits obviously prefer it to the smaller cylindrical feeder in the foreground, as do less frequent visitors like the woodpecker, starlings and long-tailed tits. The sparrows don't seem to care.
The only "down" side of the toroid fat ball feeder is that it takes so many fat balls at once (8-10) that keeping it full gets quite expensive over the cold bit of winter, when the birds are emptying it every couple of days!