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do people throw bloody bread out to the birds??

i wouldnt mind it the little creatures came for it, but its always the pigeons!!....dirty pooey things!, and it attracts rats and mice!!
do these people know nowt!!????:mad:

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:D :D :D :D :D

Havin' a bad day Panther??

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LOL....meeeee????



just feel like moaning:hidewall:

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Got to admit I'm with you on this one. It's usually the nice sweet old dears who do it these days :rolleyes:

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some people feed the pigeons... then catch them and eat them (cooked of course lol)

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Did hear an interview with a lady from the RSPB the other week, wish I could remember everything she said. Bread was the big no, no though as would just blow them up. She did say that, if you do, especially when the young ones are hatched, to throw out very small portions, as they obviously can't cope with large lumps. Also, stuck in mind was the fact that if you throw food out in the morning and still there at lunch, only the rats will finish up eating this.

Remember she suggested Weetabix was a good food for them and seed mixes. After all the RSBP do have an online shopping site themselves to buy bird trays, etc., linked with good advice.

Get annoyed when I see people feeding the ducks, they don't need it .. plenty of food in the water for them.

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pmsfl, this thread made me laugh, i had some left over bread this morning and i threw it in the garden for the birds :tongueout lol sorry panther

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That's disgusting, with the amount of diseases these have

I worked in the Animal Magic in Burnley for a while and we used to look after some of the pigeons that had been hurt due to barb wiring and such

They are quite nice animals, as in would let you help when they needed it but my god they were soooo dirty, would certainly never go near them without gloves on!

I love birds, they are beautiful and very intelligent animals, but pigeons are just a pest, and certainly do not need feeding!

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Tits like coconuts & little bits of streaky bacon hanging on the line:tongueout

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tits like suckers too lol sorry

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We put seeds out for the birds...and fat balls too...we do only seem to get the wild brids though.....no pigeons and within minutes of the stuf being put on the wall it is all gone.
Some mornings if we are a little bit behind...the birds are congregated on the wall waiting for their rations.

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Ty loves feeding the ducks :( esp atm with all the duckilings :D

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MMmmmmmm! now they would be worth feeding up for eating!
:eek:

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Sorry to digress a little Panther .. but have been worrying for the last couple of hours... Emamum do not let Ty see this.

Coming back on the M65 at lunch, was about 6 ducklings in the middle lane, they did luckily scurry back to the central reservation, further up was what looked like another group, unfortunately, they had met their maker.

Feel guilty, as maybe should have rung the traffic police, but you always think someone else has done it, don't you. Please take care if you are travelling between Junctions 4/5 .. looks like could be a sort of 'duckling run' for them.

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You used to be able to get wild bird seed, the only trouble was that all the young lasses used to eat it:D:eek:

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Some strange 'lasses' you knew Jaysay :D

Did you start off the euphenism 'birds' then ?

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I feed the birds AND feed the ducks :p ....Jack loves helping.
This often means throwing a slice of bread at random-but hey,if he enjoys it i dont care haha

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I worked in the store that used to be the Palace Cinema in Accy, I managed he DIY store upstairs. downstais was made up of consions, one being a pet food stall, and we used to kid the manageress (who was a bit wild) about eating the wild bird seed:D and no I didn't start the euphenism kate, I always respected young ladies and was a perfect gentleman, well thats my story and I'm sticing to it

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I do actually believe you Jaysay .. no worries. x

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Can't believe you have posted this admittance Miss Kitty .. might as well just put a bullet through the ducks' heads. At least break it up into smaller pieces... :D Not really a kindness to the ducks, or the waters they frequent.

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I used to feed the birds. Used to buy a big bag of wild bird seed and fill up the feeders in the back garden. Mum used to sit there and watch the birds feeding. She enjoyed it. Then one day was in the back garden putting the washing out - and saw a rat eating the birdseed that had fallen on the floor. Stopped feeding the birds after that.

Every now and then if i have any bread left over will chuck it out - all ripped into little pieces and if its still there at teatime i will go and out and pick it up and chuck it in the bin.

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I have from time to time gone out to find someone has thrown bread onto my garage roof for the birds. I dont personally do it but if they want to feed the birds its nothing to do with me but I would prefer it if they wernt to put it on my garage roof and put it somewhere on their own property, my garage is not a bird table!! (its more cats that sit up there than birds anyway!)

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Oh your so sweet kate

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I don't feed birds in my garden but I often have pigeons around - Wood Pigeons. They are beautiful birds, big too, and they strut around like they own the place. I know there is a pair nesting in the guttering above my bedroom window, as the occasional egg has rolled down on to the patio, and sometimes they sit on the chimney and coo - it echoes down the flue. :D

We do feed the ducks on the canal and the Dam. They get left-over bread from an awful lot of people, not to mention tit-bits from the holiday-makers on the canal boats. All our ducks here are fat and fit but sometimes they seem to get thinned out. I presume it's coincidental that the Chinese Restaurant (which backs on to the canal) never runs out of crispy duck. :p

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Hope random ducked:hehetable

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Who's got tits like coconuts? :rolleyes:

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iv nowt against feeding ducks, its the flying rats that do my head in, ya get bird poo everywhere!:rolleyes:

anyone got any ideas how to get rid of the vermin??:D

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follow them home and throw bread over their car and see what sort of damage pigeon beaks do to paintwork


i think we should encourage the throwing of bread at the town hall

that way we keep all the rats in one place :D

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when he says some dirty bird pooped on his car i shudder to think what actualy happened ;)

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we were in town today and ty was eating a pack of poppets (chocolatey ball things) and he dropped one... he was wetting himself laughing at a pigeon trying to catch it... we have invented a new sport... pigeon football!

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Hang on a minute. Now these feral pigeons (I presume that's what you mean by flying rats, not the fat, pink-chested wood pigeons that poo in my garden) are doing us a favour. When I worked in Warrington I often walked up the main shopping street at lunchtime. There were 2 chip shops, a MacDonalds and a Burger King on that street. The punters from these shops were quite happy to dispose of their unwanted chips, bits of burger etc. on the street and the debris lay around - but not for long.

The feral pigeons would home in on any tasty morsels lying on the pavements. If a bag of chips had been discarded on the ground next to a litter bin the pidges were there to clean it up. Well thank goodness they did because, otherwise, the rats certainly would. My office backed on to a row of restaurants/fast food outlets and the back alley between us was over-run with rats that lived well on the contents of their dustbins. I well remember a warm sunny day when we watched dozens of rats, including baby ones, playing at the back of our car-park. Now I'm not anti-rat as a mammalian species, but as a Health Hazzard give me the pigeon, any day, as opposed to the rat.