Over the summer my other half decided to make the garden more bird friendly and went out and bought a bird feeder, apparently he just bought the first one he saw hence we now have a Gardman Wild Bird Large Black Steel Seed Feeder (which is a bit of a mouthful, pun intended) hanging in the garden. Of course once installed the maintenance, stocking up and everything else has been left to me to do as he goes off and thinks of other things to do in his life. Fairly typical behaviour there. There is a loop at the top of the feeder from which you can hang it and the lid is a wide black colour which provides protection from the elements for the food inside which is ...  Read the complete review

When me and my fiancé first moved into our house we discovered that the lady who lived there before us had left her old bird table behind. The old wobbly bird table would probably still be ok had our cat Layla not run into it and knocked it over in a moment of madness meaning it ended up in several pieces. We decided that we quite liked having a bird table in the garden but opted for a hanging one this time ( previous review) We also bought the Gardman Wild Bird Large Black Steel Feeder, an ideal size, easy to maintain and suitable for a variety of birds. We got this from Amazon. The Gardman Bird Feeder is made of galvanized steel, the appearance of this ...  Read the complete review

I live outside a village and my house is surrounded by fields. I like feeding wild birds and in the past I have always put leftover bread etc out into my back garden for the birds. This used to work well, the bread attracted lots of birds and they always ate all the bread. Last month my youngest cat Ruby brought a friend home with her! It was a little blue tit and after being brought into the house in Ruby's mouth it was very near to death. I managed to get Ruby to drop the bird and I managed to free him. The next day Ruby was again in the garden hiding in the bushes, waiting for the bread to be throw out for the birds. After the ...  Read the complete review

So now we have a new bird feeding station and we do have a bunch of old bird feeders which previously hung from the bird table. However, all of these were of the "squirrel-proof" variety and in any case were all starting to show their age. The bottom of the peanut ball tube was rusting away and the bird seed feeder was never a very good design anyway. Our birdies definitely deserved new feeders for both bird seed and peanuts. As far as bird seed was concerned, the Gardman feeder I saw in Focus seemed to fit the bill. Actually, I'd gone in for a chainsaw! Strange how things work out isn't it? The design is fairly typical in that it has a lid ...  Read the complete review

When we first moved to our current home it was a newly converted barn and we had to start from scratch as far as the garden is concerned. Now, almost 5 years on, we have lots of greenery, maturing trees and shrubs and several climbers which are now home to at least two pairs of nesting birds every season - doves high in the wisteria and blackbirds lower down in one of the climbers. We like to watch them raise their young and we get at least 2 broods per year. We like to see birds in the garden and buy the 20kg sacks of wild bird seed to feed them in the winter. They last quite a while and when my wife goes out to feed them, they soon fly in. As bird ...  Read the complete review