To not want BIG birds to eating the peanuts?

[choccyp1g]

I put heaps of bird food out and get a fabulous selecion of birds in my back garden, but the magpies and parakeets and bl**dy ring-necked doves literally swoop in and scoff the lot.

A woodpecker is about as big as I appreciate.

[nokidshere]

All birds welcome in our garden! DH is a "twitcher" so spends a lot of money feeding the birds!

[BleepingSooty]

My dad has a kind of cage thing he puts over the bird table. Only the little birds can get in.

He is also sizist when it comes to bird-feeding.

[EddieVeddersfoxymop]

Am I the only one that had visions of Big Bird from Sesame Street helping himself?

[Pinkpeacock]

Well last year a bastard bloody camel got in my garden and hoovered up my entire garden, I still say the bigger the creature the more bastardly they get!

[bruffin]

Camels really are evil buggers

[Pinkpeacock]

and they spit

[Mrsjay]

DCs school have just had in a Harris Hawk to scare off the seagulls, he is gorgeous, but nobody told him he was only supposed to be scary and he tried to eat one.

OH i need to get myself 1 of those that is awesome , maybe the hawk was hungry ,

[Mrsjay]

Well last year a bastard bloody camel got in my garden and hoovered up my entire garden, I still say the bigger the creature the more bastardly they get

this is the randomnest (not a word) post I have ever read on mumsnet ever

[MimsyBorogroves]

at the camel.

I am really jealous of those who get parakeets in their gardens. I'm sure they're a pain in the arse, but...wow!

I once left a chicken carcass out for the foxes and was woken up at 3am by 5 seagulls that were more like albatrosses. They were ENORMOUS. We live near Bath and they fly around there too. They're menacing. The first time I saw one there it was ripping into a carcass of another one. Bleaurgh.

[bruffin]

We had a golden pheasant in the tree once. It looked really odd.