slo’s MONDAY 5/16 poll - Bird Feeders

[Sinder]

I only have hummingbird feeders. I have tons of birds here so there seems to be no need to attract them with food.

 

[LoveSpringsteen]

We have one bird feeder and one suet cake holder hanging from our garage.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Do you have any bird feeders in your yard?

Used to have a couple. They made such a mess underneath them, with messy seeds and the ones that got missed in clean up sprouting and messing up the yard we finally just took them down.

 

[karmic]

We have one small one
We used to have a bigger one but lost it to a very large bear

 

[tvguy]

Took our bird feeder (the kind with seeds) down when we saw a rat on it eating the seeds. It was 6 feet in the air hanging off a branch.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I have two suet baskets, and last year I also had a hummingbird feeder. (Something just reminded me yesterday to put that back up for the season, but I haven't yet.)

 

[CynBeth]

No bird feeders.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

We had one, but it took only took one incident where one of us took out the garbage at night and saw several mice eating the food that had fallen to the ground for it to go.

 

[Micca]

I used to have a few, but they either broke or mysteriously disappeared.

The curse of the Gazing Ball

 

[Lumpy1106]

The first apartment that DW and I shared was in a cute little gated complex (think Melrose Place - everyone did). Since it was gated, everyone let their cats roam. Everything went great, neighbors adored each other and each others' cats. Then new neighbors decided it would be fun to put out a bird feeder. The birds would knock the seed onto the ground, the cats would stalk in the bushes, birds would jump down to get the scraps - it was carnage.

So yeah, I don't own a bird feeder.

 

[Lumpy1106]

No bird feeders here - they attract rats and having dealt with rats I refuse to bring them close to the house again.

What you need is a cat
Oh, wait a minute....
Yeah, I can see the problem with that.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

We have no bird feeder... but I DO like birds.

 

[ncc1701]

Used to have one.Due to seeing rodents on the ground eating the fallen seeds it went away. We got a bird bath in its place.

 

[tasha99]

We have 2 regular and one hummingbird feeder. We need to move at least one of the regular feeders, because we build a catio off our living room window. The cats would love the feeder to be visible from it--it's their tv.