Helping the birds in the drought

moore., Mar 12, 8:54pm
grated apple!orange!water!

eddienz, Mar 12, 8:55pm
water and suger

les6, Mar 13, 4:39am
shotgun.they have been helping themselves from everything around here,plums,peachs,pears,green granny smith apples,even avocados with tomato!

koru67, Mar 13, 5:11am
Pear, banana, raisins, seeds, orange, sugar water - all on my bird feeder daily and they love it. The tuis love the orange too.

rsr72, Mar 13, 6:51am
My tomatoes, apple trees, and grape vines, keeping them all going and the Rosellas in the tree just meld in when chomping on the apples .

tigra, Mar 13, 7:59am
I read recently that some birds (Tuis particularly) love bananas so I carefully nailed some to a fence top and not a bird came near them. We have large bush areas around us and I do notice some birds which normally left some trees alone are changing their feeding habits. However sparrows seem to be the ones missing out so I try to put water and food out for them.

rsr72, Mar 13, 8:40am
#6- They are changing their habits. Our two tuis never ever go near our fruit trees, but they're busily eating our apples on the tree this year, as are most others.

stevee6, Mar 13, 9:13am
Just providing water at present as there is plenty of fruit, seeds and bugs for them, and the tuis have gone elsewhere as the nectar plants have finished for the season.

trader_84, Apr 14, 3:45am
Yeah - this except we use a .22 Slug. Wack them in between coffee's through the ranchslider in the mornings. Pricks.