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misskitty said:
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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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.
 
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.
 
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!)
 
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
 
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
 
panther said:
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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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
 
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!
 
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.
 
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