No desire to help RSPB
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As a family, we have been feeding wild birds in our garden for decades, and it is not to help the RSPB; it is to help the birds. We buy our birdseed for under 5 for 10 kilos, and would rather spend the money on seed than support a multi-million-pound organisation that favours some birds and discriminates against others.
For the price of an annual family membership, one can buy 85 kilos of seed, which I consider much better spent on sustaining wild birds than contributing to RSPB executives' salaries of up to 100,000 a year.
ANGUS MACMILLAN
Meikle Boturich, nr Balloch
Dunbartonshire