"Refer to this page which is interesting. http://australianwildlife.wetpaint.com/page/Feeding+Wildlife"
I am new to this site and find this topic very interesting, I live in North East Victoria and have done for the last 12 years, when we moved here, we didnt have one bird on our property, which saddened me, so one day, I threw some mince out for several days and after a week one magpie turned up, then another and another, then after three years a kookaburra turned up , so fed him too, then another kookaburra turned up , and these 2 birds mated and had 2 young, which was beautiful to see, it has taken 6 years for these kookaburras to increase their numbers to 6 , which isnt many, then one day a blue wren was seen on our lawn , and they too have stayed and mated several times during Spring,, these young birds have moved on to find their own territory, all our neighbours have got blue wrens in their gardens and are thrilled to bits, they do not feed them, we all live on farm land and there hasnt been any birds around here for years, , so I feel I have done something special here, we have been in severe drought for 10 long years, and there has been no food around for these birds, once you would walk in the paddocks and you see stick insects, all sorts of beetles hundreds of grass hoppers, but now you see nothing, when it rains all these birds go and look for natural food and we are lucky to see one waiting to be fed, so I think feeding birds is a great thing to do, within reason, I would not feed the birds if there was enough natural feed around, but there isnt , we have 2 King parrots that visit us and sit by front door when they want food .but only seem to come when their other food scource has run out, its quite amazing . Water is another thing , I always have water out for birds, and I think that is more important to the birds here than the food at the moment. I am pleased with what I have achieved with feeding birds.
