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Lol! its actually where we dispose of our really woody cuttings, etc. Its a bit of spare land owned by the local housing association. They should cut the nettles back but don't. Some would be okay, but the roots tend to invade. 
Its tricky at the minute as we're trying to plant a native(ish - inc buddleia) hedge. 
Edit - further to putting stuff down for ground-feeding birds, don't leave it overnight because of vermin. Also watch out for them coming for seed dropped from feeders - finches often 'spit' out onto the ground the stuff they don't fancy (another reason we stick to peanuts/nyger/suet - not so much waste)!
Its tricky at the minute as we're trying to plant a native(ish - inc buddleia) hedge. Edit - further to putting stuff down for ground-feeding birds, don't leave it overnight because of vermin. Also watch out for them coming for seed dropped from feeders - finches often 'spit' out onto the ground the stuff they don't fancy (another reason we stick to peanuts/nyger/suet - not so much waste)!
? I don't specifically buy bird feed but any leftover or unwanted household foodstuffs get given to the birds. I have given them spaghetti/pasta, rice, fatty meat pieces, stale bread, old cake, porridge etc but never fruits because I didn't realise they went for that. I do get lots of semi rotten cooking apples. I used to throw the foods on the patio but they never really went for that so I gathered they feel threatened as it's too near to the house. Now I scatter the food on the roof of the garden shed some 15 yards from the house and they now clear off fast. We get a very good view of all sorts of birds feeding from the house. Okay it's a massive bird table but useful as the little birds have chance of getting a feed while the big birds are busy towards the centre. I was going to get myself a bird table then decided the shed roof serves that purpose, possibly more usefully too.
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