{"id":1335,"date":"2009-06-09T16:35:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T15:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/?p=1335"},"modified":"2019-10-20T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T13:47:29","slug":"do-you-need-to-feed-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/do-you-need-to-feed-the-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you need to feed the birds?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1336\" style=\"margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"birdwithwater200wide\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/birdwithwater200wide.jpg\" alt=\"birdwithwater200wide\" width=\"200\" height=\"186\" \/>I have always been a big believer in feeding the garden birds throughout the year. However, I stopped feeding a few months ago as the feeders were attracting vermin. Since then I have only provided saucers of water; they together with the Ivy and other bird loving plants still attract a good number of birds.<\/p>\n<p>Every day I sit at my computer watching the birds bathing in the saucers of water, feeding on aphids and other insects and I have had wrens and blackbirds nesting in the Ivy and Clematis growing up the fencing.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few birds I miss such as the woodpecker and goldfinch as well as the sparrowhawk but I don&#8217;t miss the mice and squirrels!<\/p>\n<p>I will probably put out some high fat food during the winter but will no longer feed the birds during spring and summer, I&#8217;ll just enjoy them using my garden as a bathroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always been a big believer in feeding the garden birds throughout the year. However, I stopped feeding a few months ago as the feeders were attracting vermin. Since then I have only provided saucers of water; they together with the Ivy and other bird loving plants still attract a good number of birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wildlife-gardening-articles-2","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15674,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335\/revisions\/15674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningregisterblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}