One of the great things about living at Waterloo Farm is the variety of wildlife we get in the garden, and especially at this time of year, the birds. We always try our best to put food out for them, ensuring there’s something for everyone – peanuts and seeds in feeders for the little birds, apples and suitable leftovers for the bigger ones and food on the floor for those that don’t hover so well like our resident pheasant Fezziwig! As you can imagine we were getting through quite a lot of shop-bought fat balls to keep up with them all, so I decided to have a go at making my own, and I’m pleased to say my experiments have been a total success
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Homemade Bird Food and Feeders
Saturday, January 9th, 2010Pet Pheasant ‘Fezziwig’ (Phasianus colchicus)
Sunday, September 20th, 2009Sometime ago we named a male pheasant who appeared to be very friendly ‘Fezziwig’ (The name of Dicken’s Scrooge first boss). Fezziwig has now shown a remarkable behaviour, whenever we sit down for dinner (tea) he appears on the patio looking for food!
Now you might think that is not that clever as we must surely sit down at the same time every night. But that is not true. We can be later or early by an hour and he still appears. We have drawn the following conclusions why:
