We buy the bag of feed for the bird around silky lake, cannot feed bird in garden due to rats using back gardens as a shortcut
Rats can become a nasty problem due to bird feeding in gardens, as can the pigeons it attracts. Cost me £400 to get my solar panels pigeon proofed as they were nesting under and disturbing the cabling. First world problems and all that I know, but £400 FFS.
I stopped putting nuts out for the birds as a squirrel kept stealing them all, chewed a hole in my roofing felt and I had little piles of nuts on top of my loft insulation! I still put seed and fat balls out. I've got regular feathered visitors that I love watching.