Vandals smash record bid bird feeder in Wirral

Sep 2 2009 by Samantha Parker, Birkenhead News

A CHARITY event to show off a world record attempt for the world’s biggest bird feeder was nearly cancelled after vandals attacked it.

Defiant fundraisers refused to let thugs put a dampener on their day and desperately tried to repair the 13ft bird feeder before visitors arrived.

The organisers beat the thugs and on Monday the world’s biggest bird feeder could be seen in all its glory.

They smashed the current world record for the biggest bird feeder by creating a 13ft structure holding 401kg of seed.

They now face an agonising two-month wait for official confirmation from the Guinness Book of Records.

Their record attempt on Saturday at Carr Farm Garden Centre, in Meols, was almost scuppered after vandals wrecked the feeder.

Wirral Birdkeepers secretary Brian Gregory, who has kept birds in his garden aviary for 50 years, said: “We were very upset when we arrived to see what the vandals had done.

“How could someone do this to a charity? We are trying to raise money for the Hoylake Cottage Day Care Appeal.

“I guess that we are lucky that we did the world record attempt on Saturday so they didn’t ruin that.