This year I moved offices and, for the first time in 25 years, I have a view from my office window of bushes and wild flowers instead of refinery columns, vessels and pipes. We set up a bird feeder during the spring with wild bird seeds, niger seeds for the finches, peanuts and a suet block. What birds visit our avian diner? Almost none!

A tree sparrow came for a couple of weeks during May for the wild bird seed;
Nothing in June, although 3 goldfinches did stop several times on a nearby bush before deciding to fly elsewhere; (The suet block went mouldy so I had to throw it away. I changed all the rest of the food at the same time.)
A chaffinch, maybe two - but not at the same time - in July and early August; Sometimes on the peanuts but mainly on the ground around the feeder.
This week we had a visit from a great tit to the peanuts.

3 birds in 4 months! What am I doing wrong? I get more than that in my garden and I don't have a bird feeder.


DC