To not really give a toss about the birds being abit peckish?

[kreecherlivesupstairs]

I can't stand them anyway so wouldn't give them food. I really don't think I am being unreasonable. Am I?

Of course you are. Are you really so bored???

LOL at peckish birds. They do peck, don't they? It's the beaks you know.

Duh

Don't be such an old grouch.

You'll be sorry in summer when your plants are being eaten by insects who would have been eaten by the birds, if only you'd left them out a few dainty morsels.

Yes YABU.

But I suspect they feel the same about you

I don't have any plants, won't be living here in the summer (hooray) and am terrified of birds. I do occasionally throw some bread at the ducks and other waterfowl on the lake near us.

I think geographical location applies here.

I once had a naybugger who threw whole loaves of bread outside her front door. Cue clouds of pooing pidgeons. Delightful. I've never seen a pidgeon bother to hunt an insect as it goes.

I don't put food out for birds. It would be akin to enticing live food for my cat which doesn't seem fair. OTOH, said prey would no longer struggle with hunger ...but I can't say its end would be humane in the least.

*pigeon/s

I'm with EcoMouse - I do give a bit of a toss about peckish birds but encouraging them into my garden would be akin to opening a Michelin-starred restaurant for my cats.

How come all these pinko-liberals are ok with us interferring with wild-life when it's to keep tham alive? surely we should let nature run it's course?

I must admit that I haven't given the birds a second thought, and I haven't botheed going on the thread 'people don't realise how desperate it is for birds' as, no, I don't realise how desperate it is and I don't much care tbh.

I am not putting food out for the other wild animals (foxes, mice, hedgehogs) so not going to for the birds either.

This is my revenge for them chirrupping at 4.30am in the summer when I am trying to sleep (joke).

*them