MenorcaMike – Robins and tits love a bit of grated cheese. Meal worms are also popular but, unless you’re a fisherman, it’s less likely you’ll have any of those knocking about. I assume. 🙂
When there’s snow on the ground or it’s exceptionally cold I have tried putting out cut up apple and chopped dried fruit, but they’re never touched outside Autumn. Not even the magpies are interested. I wonder if there’s some kind of bird-brain hard-wiring that means blackbirds don’t accept fresh food out of season, because once the apples on our little apple tree are ripe the resident male blackbird gets ridiculously territorial defending ‘his’ tree.
Tharg – This Summer the newly fledged sparrow chicks keep flying in through the open patio doors in pairs, do a circuit of the sitting-room, and shoot back out again. It’s happened occasionally in previous years, but this year it’s happening nearly every day the doors are open. we don’t mind – They all seem to be house-trained – not one ‘accident’.