Bird table

[Rose]

Has anyone seen any of these for sale locally?

[Roger O]

I made my own using one of those stakes for vines and screwing a flat piece of wood on top as table - around which I had already made a screwed on rim to retain the seeds, etc. I bored four small holes in the table so it drains in case of rain. I topped it off by making an arch of green fencing wire of a mesh large enough to admit anything up to a blackbird - but small enough to foil pigeons and magpies. I left the ends of the wire at the front and bent them into hooks to hang the fatballs for the bluetits, etc. We get a real host swarming on it! The stock food I use for the table is mainly the cheap sunflower seed one can buy in Casino, Leclerc, etc. in the animal shelves. All the birds love it.

[jane]

I saw a few for sale in Castorama this week