On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:11:19 +0100, "Michael Chare"
wrote:

The birds are eating the bird seed and peanuts in our garden in Kent very
quickly,

The rate of consumption is much quicker than I have seen before.

Has anyone else noticed a similar high rate, or able to explain why this is
happening?

We noticed that earlier this year, then I spotted a family of very
plumps rats attacking them. The rat catcher sorted that out and the
birds then got their fair share. That is, until some despicable ****
nicked all the bird feeders. The bird bath was nicked last night too.