good idea Taz

yes very good

But then the ground feeding birds miss out. Our resident pheasant does a very good job of clearing up the spilled seeds, as do the collared doves.

we find that the collared doves, blackbirds robins, go into the domes and feed from there once they have got use to them being there,

your never going to please everyone or everything what ever you do .

Great, Taz!!

thanks everyone, I rather deter the rats then put poison down and risk harming other wildlife, if you want to encourage wildlife into the garden and there is easy food about, unfortunately the rats will come, and I don't want them in my garden.

your spot on with your reasoning taz and know rats get harmed .

I agree noseypotter, we don't have to kill them just because we don't like them, we have to compromise,live and let live is my motto, ( just not in my garden please)

well they didn't introduce there selves into this country ? you've got to admire them really as they are opertunists just like us .

I used to do the same to stop the fallen seed from making a mouldy mess on my lawn. It worked well enough until the weather destroyed the dome. We used to have so many goldfinches coming to our old garden and what a mess they would make!

P.s. taz...this kind of informative item is really good in a 'blog'. :)

I agree ck you should learn to live with nature not just keep fighting it for your own ends .