Interesting Ways To Feed Garden Birds

[shivvy]

We have been feeding birds in our garden for years and love it.  We are lucky that we get a really good selection of them.  We put out peanuts, sunflower seed, mixed seed, niger seed and fatball and suet blocks and appropriate kitchen scraps. 

In Storm Eowyn we lost a mature cotoneaster which was covering a big wall (approx 21ft x 7ft).  We used to hang some feeders on it but now that it is gone, we have a bit of a blank canvas.  So I'm looking for inspiration on ways to use the wall to feed lots of different birds.

I know I can attach brackets to it and hang the feeders from them, but I'm trying to think of something a bit more unusual!

Thanks

[Khandro]

Perhaps a trellis like some version of this;

https://ibb.co/N6fnsvf6

[ladybirder]

Do you not get cats trying to kill your lovely birds shivvy?

[shivvy]

Yes I have seen trellises Khandro but not sure they would work on such a big wall.

Ladybirder - up until recently we have always had dogs so have never been bothered by cats!

[rowanwitch]

Better to replant with more berry bushes, also some sense growing ones to grow into potential nest sites

[rowanwitch]

Sense!!! Slow

[Khandro]

Cats don't only kill birds;  I've just seen one slinking across the field behind my house with a mouse in its mouth.

[barry1010]

If you have squirrels you might want to feed the birds without feeding the squirrels - they can strip a bird feeder very quickly.

Hanging baskets high on the wall with bird feeders suspended below it can solve the problem.  

[ladybirder]

I know they don't Khandro.  Next door's cat was trying to catch a squirrel one day.  Squirrel won.

One day I saw it lying flat and motionless in my border watching a Blackbird starting to dig for a worm.  My garden hose and me saved the bird.