A second feeder using the Aldi seed mixture is attracting House Sparrow. a scarce bird in my garden previously.
Keith Mills said
Wed Dec 23 5:58 PM, 2015
Aldi Bolton ''special buy'' 1 kg. Sunflower Hearts £1.99 The mixed seed that I got from here is being taken at a reasonable rate, Coal Tits, Robins and Dunnock the most frequent seen at this feeder.
Doc Brewster said
Sun Nov 29 10:57 AM, 2015
Sounds like it will be fine Keith & a bargain Last year one of our local B&Q stores had 12.75Kg sacks for a fiver & we bought 3 (or 4 can't remember now) plus 2 for our work feeders at Focalpoint, and the mix was/is absolutely great & really popular with all the small passerine species. Any spilt wheat is quickly hoovered up by Wood Pigeons & Collared Doves at home and pigeon species & Pheasants at work
Keith Mills said
Sun Nov 29 10:44 AM, 2015
keith mills wrote:
David Shallcross wrote:
keith mills wrote:
Currently at Aldi , Bolton: special purchase, 12.75kg sacks of wild bird seed mix at £5.99. Now that's cheap! Also cheap meal worm and nice glazed feeders.
It sounds cheap enough Keith, but may be full of seed the only the likes of pheasants and wood pigeons eat. wheat and barley
Yes David, having now read this full thread I realise that I may have erred. I have not opened the bag yet as I have a stock from my local pet shop which alas is closing. Aldi's is called wild bird seed mix, suitable, it states, for Tits, Finches and Nuthatch and Sparrows... branded ''Birdbox'' and produced in Austria. Said to contain: Black Sunflower seed, red dari, maize, whole oats and barley and wheat Some of the dearer food do contain cereal. It will be a few weeks before I need to open, the very strong, bag.. I'll let you know how the birds take to it.
I have now put a tube out from the bag. Visually the mixture has a good amount of Black Sunflower seed ( more than my present mix which goes well) and the red dari can be seen everywhere in the mix. It's down to the birds now!
Keith Mills said
Wed Nov 18 4:26 PM, 2015
David Shallcross wrote:
keith mills wrote:
Currently at Aldi , Bolton: special purchase, 12.75kg sacks of wild bird seed mix at £5.99. Now that's cheap! Also cheap meal worm and nice glazed feeders.
It sounds cheap enough Keith, but may be full of seed the only the likes of pheasants and wood pigeons eat. wheat and barley
Yes David, having now read this full thread I realise that I may have erred. I have not opened the bag yet as I have a stock from my local pet shop which alas is closing. Aldi's is called wild bird seed mix, suitable, it states, for Tits, Finches and Nuthatch and Sparrows... branded ''Birdbox'' and produced in Austria. Said to contain: Black Sunflower seed, red dari, maize, whole oats and barley and wheat Some of the dearer food do contain cereal. It will be a few weeks before I need to open, the very strong, bag.. I'll let you know how the birds take to it.
David Shallcross said
Mon Nov 9 7:53 PM, 2015
keith mills wrote:
Currently at Aldi , Bolton: special purchase, 12.75kg sacks of wild bird seed mix at £5.99. Now that's cheap! Also cheap meal worm and nice glazed feeders.
It sounds cheap enough Keith, but may be full of seed the only the likes of pheasants and wood pigeons eat. wheat and barley
Keith Mills said
Mon Nov 2 11:19 AM, 2015
Currently at Aldi , Bolton: special purchase, 12.75kg sacks of wild bird seed mix at £5.99. Now that's cheap! Also cheap meal worm and nice glazed feeders.
Dave Thacker said
Sun Jun 21 12:35 PM, 2015
If anyone is interested in finding out what wildlife visits your garden Aldi are selling a wildlife cam or sometimes called trailcams for just under £70 today. There are just two left at the Aldi store at the Irlams of the heights .
Martin Loftus said
Wed Dec 3 8:09 PM, 2014
Ive used one of these for a few months now and they are brilliant for the money! I have prior experience with very expensive scopes too, the build quality is questionable but they are sharp and clear enough to be used in the field. I highly recommend these to anyone for the price.. Plus for £25 it brings less tears to your eyes every time you drop it
-- Edited by Martin Loftus on Wednesday 3rd of December 2014 08:09:54 PM
Mike Savage said
Wed Dec 3 4:48 PM, 2014
I bought a Lidl one for daughter, really not bad for the money.
Nik Grounds said
Mon Dec 1 7:30 PM, 2014
Spotting scope and table stand for £24.99 on offer at Lidl from Thursday 4th Dec: http://www.lidl.co.uk/en/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=18721
John Doherty said
Wed Jul 31 1:38 AM, 2013
Ancoats Aldi - if you go right to the middle of the store, on the horizontal aisle there's a cabinet with various things in it for sale, including a spotting scope - can't remember the spec of my head but seemed good value (inc. table tripod) at 26.99 - since we've always lauded them here might as well do with this - something for a grandchild to use or something?
Ian Boote said
Fri Jul 19 7:35 AM, 2013
Ramsbottom Aldi Desk illuminated magnifier.......abfab for looking at bugs and taking pics on macro with the lumix camera. £7 Bargain if your into bugs. Just took a great photo of a Micro moth.
Keith Mills said
Sun Jun 9 6:41 PM, 2013
At Barton Grange Garden Centre, Bolton (next to Rumworth Lodge)....
12.75 Kg bags of Gardman wild bird seed mix reduced from£12.99 to £ 8.99
Also smaller bags of Tom Chambers daily bird seed ''buy one get one free''
John Doherty said
Wed May 22 3:38 PM, 2013
At Ancoats Aldi this morning a 13kg bag of mixed seed was slashed from 8.99 to 4.99 - a few left too
Geoff Hargreaves said
Tue May 14 5:16 AM, 2013
These are not available in the aldi,netto shops but they do fit into the 'price buster' ethos of the thread I recently purchased a pair of Helios Aero 10x42 ED binoculars via the well known auction site for £140,two months down the line and a good few soakings I,m still very pleased with them,the only review I ,ve found is at Bestbinocular.com and thats at 8x42.So roughly 90% of the top names performance for 10% of the price.Info only and buyer beware.
Cheers geoff
Gary Ingram said
Thu Feb 7 7:05 AM, 2013
Large bag of mixed bird seed was £6.99 now on offer for February £4.07 at Costco
Chris Greene said
Fri Feb 1 7:36 PM, 2013
Yet another bird book for my collection....the feathered variety that is! "Birds Of The World"....DK nature guide series, only£3.99 at Aldi, Stockport this morning. A bit of a strange mish-mash of our feathered friends...i.e. ....Red Breasted Merganser on one side of the page,and an Emperor Penguin on the other, but a nice book to have nevertheless. Plus they've also got a large selection of bird feeders and seed etc. Cheers Chris
pete berry said
Tue Jan 1 1:05 AM, 2013
Fatballs at Aldi were £7.99 today,not £3.99
Mike Price said
Mon Dec 31 7:08 AM, 2012
Aldi at Great Ancoats Street, Manchester had seed at £4.99 for 12.75kg and fatball £3.99 for 50
Anne Wilkinson said
Wed Feb 16 5:10 PM, 2011
Aldi's fat balls are good value at £6.99 for 50 but be careful with their 'seed'. It is mostly grain and not suitable for feeders, and finches, tits etc will not eat it anyway.
Charles Farrell said
Sun Feb 6 11:34 PM, 2011
Thanks all for the 'heads up' on this. We don't have many Aldi down here in the south, but the store I visited had loads in stock and I picked up a couple inc 1 for a present.
Also got my sister to pick up one from their store in Middleton. A great bargain! Thanks!
Ian Boote said
Sat Feb 5 11:56 PM, 2011
i bought one early. several boxes had been tampered with even at 9am thursday. the one i bought is great for twenty quid.
Scott Reid said
Sat Feb 5 6:35 PM, 2011
I know, it's not ideal. Testing in store obviously doesn't give you an indication of the scopes ability, but it does seperate the goods from the duds in terms of a clear and focused image. I have tested it since at home at further distances (down the road) and I am over the moon with it.
Charles Coutts said
Sat Feb 5 6:21 PM, 2011
How do you test a scope indoors ? not much distance involved.
Scott Reid said
Thu Feb 3 10:24 PM, 2011
Picked up one of the aldi spotting scopes this morning for £19.99. When I got it home I set it up and had a look through it and was seeing two of everything! I had a fiddle around with it but it didn't improve.
Unimpressed I took it back and asked to change it and test a few more before I picked one. They were fine with this so I tested another 3 in store, two of them were absolutly fine but 1 other didn't seem to focus correctly.
With it being only £20 I took one of the good ones and it seems to be very good for the price.
The true test will come next week when I take it up to parkgate and see how it copes with following harriers accross the marsh. For anybody thinking fo buying one, just make sure you TEST IT IN STORE before you buy!
Mike Crawley said
Sat Jan 29 11:23 AM, 2011
Aldi have a spotting scope offer on again - £20 this time and in store next Thursday. No idea what the quality will be like but....
Also nuts, seed, fat balls, etc. which appear to be decent value.
Phil Owen said
Mon Mar 1 9:33 PM, 2010
Bought a pair of the £13.99 10x50's today from Lidl after hearing good reports about them.
I know they are cheap but don't be put off, I was pleasantly suprised at just how good these bins are for the money.
Optically they are very good and I would fully recommend these to anybody looking for a spare pair to keep in the car!!
Pete Welch said
Sat Feb 27 1:16 PM, 2010
B&Q - at least the Widnes superstore - have discounted all their bird seed and feed by around 30 - 50% I noticed today - so I stocked up!
Anne Wilkinson said
Fri Feb 26 5:23 PM, 2010
I purchased 2 sacks of bird seed from Aldi recently. When I opened them I found that they contained 95% grain with a smattering of black sunflower seeds plus white bits that I could not identify. Obviously this was unsuitable for bird feeders as small birds such as tits and finches will not eat grain. I have spread it across the lawn for the Woodpigeons and Pheasants and even they are turning their noses up at it if there is something better available.
Quite frankly, Aldi should be reported to trades description because their advertised bird seed is not seed at all. And they should be taken to task for misleading people into feeding unsuitable food to small garden birds.
Rachael Hill said
Mon Feb 22 1:52 PM, 2010
Does social services know that you have replaced your children with binoculas?
HA HA! Not a bad deal! I've got two more kids if there's any takers
Matt Potter said
Mon Feb 22 12:17 PM, 2010
Rachael Hill wrote:
Lidl have also got pocket binocs 10x25 for just £5.99, same make (Rocktrail), bought 3 sets to replace the kids
Does social services know that you have replaced your children with binoculas?
Rachael Hill said
Mon Feb 22 10:52 AM, 2010
Lidl have also got pocket binocs 10x25 for just £5.99, same make (Rocktrail), bought 3 sets to replace the kids
Thank you! I got a pair for the car this time last year & my hubby has grumbled ever since (...they were for him.....) Will be in the queue
brandon mulhern said
Tue Feb 16 7:19 PM, 2010
i see the 10 x 50 bins are back from the22nd at lidl
Karen Foulkes said
Mon Feb 8 6:42 PM, 2010
Meal worms were better value in Wilkinsons I found. There were six scopes left in Aldi in Ashton today, plenty of nest box cameras, bird tables, etc
brandon mulhern said
Mon Feb 8 5:53 PM, 2010
David Murphy wrote:
Aldi in Bury (Rochdale rd) had about a dozen left yesterday. I just bough three from them - one for me and two for friends in the south who are too posh to go to Aldi.
David
You want to take a trip to Lidl in Wilmslow and watch as there are more mercs than fords in their car park!!
David Murphy said
Mon Feb 8 9:10 AM, 2010
Aldi in Bury (Rochdale rd) had about a dozen left yesterday. I just bough three from them - one for me and two for friends in the south who are too posh to go to Aldi.
David
Dave Thacker said
Sun Feb 7 1:50 PM, 2010
This afternoon Aldi in Swinton is also well stocked up with scopes, nest boxes, camera box kits and bird food. The tubs of Meal worms and the large tubs of fat balls are a bargain.
brandon mulhern said
Sat Feb 6 4:49 PM, 2010
We have just been in Aldi in Sale and they have plenty of everything, scopes, nesting boxes, camera boxes and tables. We have one of the older aldi scopes and i have to say the current (cheaper) version appears to be crisper and better contrast than the older version.
Rachael Hill said
Sat Feb 6 1:42 PM, 2010
My Aldi (Ashton under Lyne) has had the scopes in all year, never been out of stock. Not been this week & the offer may have attracted a few more punters. Rae
Matt Potter said
Fri Feb 5 8:44 AM, 2010
Has anyone bought the bird table from aldi? How tall is it and is it decent quality?
ta
Holly Page said
Fri Feb 5 6:55 AM, 2010
If anyone is looking to get one of the scopes, I'd hurry up. I went into the Aldi in Bolton town centre at 5pm yeaterday and the bloke there said they'd been flying out, they only had two left (one now I've got one!! )
John Rayner said
Mon Feb 1 10:41 PM, 2010
Nik Grounds wrote:
Further details here: http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/offers_week05Thursday10.htm
Exactly the same offers as 1 year ago - see lower down this thread.
Then I was interested in the nestbox camera system but they had sold out by the time I got there.
Dave Thacker bought one though - Any good Dave? Did you get any occupants?
Cheers, John
Nik Grounds said
Mon Feb 1 10:07 PM, 2010
Further details here: http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/offers_week05Thursday10.htm
Paul Heaton said
Sat Jan 30 9:04 PM, 2010
Using the twitching tactics of 2008, I ran from the A6 to the bird, without my scope in the hope that someone else would have one, and I must say the view through Judiths scope was fine, well worth the £20.
Rigger how that secret year list, great bird to have.
Keep Birding
Judith Smith said
Sat Jan 30 7:51 PM, 2010
Great for keeping in the car just in case - as I found out today when the Shore Lark popped up unexpectedly whilst I was away from home but not too far from the bird...
Geoff Hargreaves said
Fri Jan 29 10:28 PM, 2010
They,ve been around for a while now but aldi have a special offer out on the 4th feb, the little 20x60 scope is now down to £20,you,ll have to dig back through this thread to see how good this scope is(for 20 quid that is)five star value
The mixed seed that I got from here is being taken at a reasonable rate, Coal Tits, Robins and Dunnock the most frequent seen
at this feeder.
Sounds like it will be fine Keith & a bargain
Last year one of our local B&Q stores had 12.75Kg sacks for a fiver & we bought 3 (or 4 can't remember now) plus 2 for our work feeders at Focalpoint, and the mix was/is absolutely great & really popular with all the small passerine species. Any spilt wheat is quickly hoovered up by Wood Pigeons & Collared Doves at home and pigeon species & Pheasants at work 
I have now put a tube out from the bag. Visually the mixture has a good amount of Black Sunflower seed
( more than my present mix which goes well) and the red dari can be seen everywhere in the mix. It's down to the birds now!
Yes David, having now read this full thread I realise that I may have erred.
I have not opened the bag yet as I have a stock from my local pet shop which alas is closing.
Aldi's is called wild bird seed mix, suitable, it states,
for Tits, Finches and Nuthatch and Sparrows... branded ''Birdbox'' and produced in Austria.
Said to contain: Black Sunflower seed, red dari, maize, whole oats and barley and wheat
Some of the dearer food do contain cereal.
It will be a few weeks before I need to open, the very strong, bag.. I'll let you know how the birds take to it.
It sounds cheap enough Keith, but may be full of seed the only the likes of pheasants and wood pigeons eat. wheat and barley
Also cheap meal worm and nice glazed feeders.
-- Edited by Martin Loftus on Wednesday 3rd of December 2014 08:09:54 PM
12.75 Kg bags of Gardman wild bird seed mix reduced from£12.99 to £ 8.99
Also smaller bags of Tom Chambers daily bird seed ''buy one get one free''
I recently purchased a pair of Helios Aero 10x42 ED binoculars via the well known auction site for £140,two months down the line and a good few soakings I,m still very pleased with them,the only review I ,ve found is at Bestbinocular.com and thats at 8x42.So roughly 90% of the top names performance for 10% of the price.Info only and buyer beware.
Cheers geoff
"Birds Of The World"....DK nature guide series, only£3.99 at Aldi, Stockport this morning.
A bit of a strange mish-mash of our feathered friends...i.e. ....Red Breasted Merganser on one side of the page,and an Emperor Penguin on the other,
but a nice book to have nevertheless.
Plus they've also got a large selection of bird feeders and seed etc.
Cheers Chris
Also got my sister to pick up one from their store in Middleton. A great bargain! Thanks!
not much distance involved.
Unimpressed I took it back and asked to change it and test a few more before I picked one. They were fine with this so I tested another 3 in store, two of them were absolutly fine but 1 other didn't seem to focus correctly.
With it being only £20 I took one of the good ones and it seems to be very good for the price.
The true test will come next week when I take it up to parkgate and see how it copes with following harriers accross the marsh. For anybody thinking fo buying one, just make sure you TEST IT IN STORE before you buy!
Also nuts, seed, fat balls, etc. which appear to be decent value.
I know they are cheap but don't be put off, I was pleasantly suprised at just how good these bins are for the money.
Optically they are very good and I would fully recommend these to anybody looking for a spare pair to keep in the car!!
Quite frankly, Aldi should be reported to trades description because their advertised bird seed is not seed at all. And they should be taken to task for misleading people into feeding unsuitable food to small garden birds.
Does social services know that you have replaced your children with binoculas?
HA HA! Not a bad deal! I've got two more kids if there's any takers
Does social services know that you have replaced your children with binoculas?
Worth a purchase next week. Thanks Brandon.
Will be in the queue
You want to take a trip to Lidl in Wilmslow and watch as there are more mercs than fords in their car park!!
David
Rae
ta
Exactly the same offers as 1 year ago - see lower down this thread.
Then I was interested in the nestbox camera system but they had sold out by the time I got there.
Dave Thacker bought one though - Any good Dave? Did you get any occupants?
Cheers, John
Rigger how that secret year list, great bird to have.
Keep Birding
cheers geoff