There are standards for where to place your feeders, how often to clean them and how much food to stock.
Published: 52 seconds agoThere is debate whether feeding birds in the winter is a good idea. Some folks point out that birds don’t need our help to survive winter, other than keeping cats inside and getting rid of feral ones. Some say congregating birds at a feeder poses health risks. On the other side, folks insist bird feeding is harmless sport and helps draw people to the outdoors.
The biggest lesson is where to place feeders. I used to hang them in trees all over the back yard. And some were way up in them. It didn’t matter that a feeder was 15 feet away or way up in a tree as we were manned with a few sets of binoculars and macroscopes. Next, it is really important to clean feeders and not just before you put them up and take them down as we have been doing. The recommendation is to wash yours in a mixture of one part bleach and nine parts water every two weeks. This is beginning to sound like work, but it protects the birds from pathogens, and maybe even you. It isn’t hard to clean the right feeders.
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