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Wastage and Returns

The new squirrel baffle has revealed just how much food the goldfinches waste. Yesterday I cleaned a layer of splilled sunflower seed fragments from the baffle and today I had to repeat the process much to the enjoyment of the wood pigeons. This may also have been instrumental in a return visit from the pied wagtail. On the other hand the bullfinch keeps coming back and takes what is on the baffle itself.

While both seed and fat feeders are well used in the back garden the feeder at the front of the house is seeing very little use. In previous years this has been popular with great spotted woodpeckers but at the moment it just seems to be the robin. If it hadn't been so cold I think that the fat bar would be mouldy by now.
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