Hi Shelagh
Sounds brilliant – your garden being full of life. Good that there’s lots of water too. The birds share the water here too, but the hogs don’t seem to mind. I seem to be forever filling the saucers up after the starlings have been in them having a splash around!
Amounts of food is a bit of a difficult one – it is usually a question of seeing how it goes i.e. if they leave a lot then give them less the next day. Having said that, if your garden is anything like mine, and you feed outside at all, the birds may finish off what the hogs leave, so it isn’t always possible to tell. If you have 3 hogs visiting and they are ever there at the same time, I would leave at least 3 separate dishes spread out a bit. Most hogs don’t like sharing except when they are young. Some hogs aren’t keen on going in boxes, so I always leave at least one dish outside – under some perspex type material, to deter the visiting cats. It also has the advantage that I can see the hogs better too.
