[Garden_birder]

What birdfeeders do you have?
I have
2 peanut feeders
3 seed feeders
1 nyjer fedder
2 suet feders
2 bird tabels
1 bird bath

[jackied]

1 Peanut Feeder
2 tube seed feeders
1 home made seed feeder ( 2 plant pot dishes attached by a hanging basket chain)
3 suet ball feeders
1 bird table
1 ground feeder
1 bird bath

Jackie

[pauco]

Hi Garden-birder, welcome to BirdForum.

We have 3 hanging feeders, wild bird seed-3 tables, mixed seed again, we put the white sunflower hearts on the ground, as with the sultanas, and mixed fruit.

[alcedo.atthis]

"I have

2 peanut feeders

3 seed feeders

1 nyjer feeder

2 suet feeders

2 bird tables

1 bird bath"



Just curious. Are any of the above directly below, or slightly to the side and below of any of the others. If so, then you are at a high level of risk in spreading several of the fatal diseases that birds carry in there faeces.

(The ones at the top, poop on the feeders below, (a percentage will carry e-coli and salmonella)the birds feeding on the feeders below ingest the diseased poop and they die. That's how these diseases are spread.
I was slightly disgusted to see feeders over feeders on the BBC wildlife program again last night. Will these persons, (I am being nice) ever learn??)




Regards



Malky

[Talon 1]

3 bird baths
3 tables
2 peanut feeders
1 nyger
1 5ft general feeder
3 sunflower feeders
1 fat caged feeder (modinised from peanut feeder)
2 ground feeder.
2 milk carton feeders
1 owl/kestrel box
3 tit/sparrow boxes
2 robin boxes

[Jos Stratford]

Jeepers, this thread makes me realise how much money is going down their throats! In winter, spread between two sites, I have now in the region of 20 nutfeeders, 10-15 seedfeeders, 4 or 5 suit feeders, few spirally things for apples etc and 2 bird tables, plus one nyjer feeder (no point getting more as I have to import the nyjer myself - none in this country) ...and none of these feeders stay full for more than a few days!

[Garden_birder]

Originally Posted by Free

3 bird baths
3 tables
2 peanut feeders
1 nyger
1 5ft general feeder
3 sunflower feeders
1 fat caged feeder (modinised from peanut feeder)
2 ground feeder.
2 milk carton feeders
1 owl/kestrel box
3 tit/sparrow boxes
2 robin boxes

That's a lot of feeders.

[Saphire]

Malky you say deseases are spread from having feeders to the side and underneath each other, what about bird tables the birds feed and poop on the table. Are you saying that we shouldn't use bird tables.

Christine

[Talon 1]

Originally Posted by Garden_birder

That's a lot of feeders.

I am lucky to have a big garden . Although they are quite tightly packed together in two places for cat/fox alarms as i have a huge farm very close and countryside galore.
I am thinking of reducing a few for the summer and putting them back up now for the Autumn as most chics have been fed now and there does seem a drop in activity especially on niger so i might bring 2 or 3 in and wait untill the Autumn as sometimes the cleaning is a bit much at times

[Garden_birder]

I have a small garden but the feeders are close together.

[songbird6666]

I've been gradually cutting back for financial reasons, but I still have

4 x Peanut Feeders
3 x Niger
1 x 4-port Carousel feeder for Sunflower hearts
2 x 3-port Carousel feeders for 50-50 mix of Sunflower Hearts, and Black Sunflowers (unhulled)
1 x Hanging bird table which I smother in wild bird seed
2 x Bird tables - 1 open, 1 with roof, which have wild bird seed and sultanas
2 x Wire mesh ground feeders - ditto-
3 x bird baths

[alcedo.atthis]

"Malky you say deseases are spread from having feeders to the side and underneath each other, what about bird tables the birds feed and poop on the table. Are you saying that we shouldn't use bird tables."

Christine, firstly, hi. It's not me who is stating the faeces transfer of disease, it's the leading scientist(s) who is/are dealing with this problem, one of whom works for the Scottish Agricultural College, Veterinary Science Division. Several papers have been written, one of which I posted here :-

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/deaths.htm
This paper has now been superceeded by newer research results which goes into further detail.

Another is here :-
http://www.ufaw.org.uk/Birddis.htm

It's up to you how you treat this information, and how you wish to react to it.
Ps, I still have feeders and a bird table, but they are in an area which has it's own sealed dedicated drainage for the run-off of utilised Jeyes fluid.

Regards

Malky

[buhlbirdbuffet]

Hi all....

4 suet.
2 nyjer seed socks.
1 safflower,sunflower,seed mix.
4 wildbird seed mix.
4 sunflower heart feeders.
2 birdbaths

I also throw rasins,stale whole grain bread,on the ground.

[cavan wood]

Wow, you folks must go through a lot of coin filling all those feeders. I thought I was starting to get a little obsesses with:

Winter:
3 seed feeders (one millet, two sunflower)
1 suet feeder

Summer:
1 safflower feeder
1 niger feeder
1 humming bird feeder
and oranges and grape jelly for the orioles

Cheers,
Scott

[shelley810]

I change feeders alot, depending on who has discovered them or who is destroying them.
Right now:
2 oriole feeders
2 mealworm feeders
2 hummingbird feeders
2 grape jelly holders
1 nijer sock
1 sm black oil sunflower seed feeder
2 safflower seed feeders
one sm sunflower chip finch feeder
1 suet log (holds 4 plugs)
1 woodpecker block (doubles as a starling and squirrel feeder:()
2 bird baths
1 pond with bird bubbler
sounds like alot, but most of the seed feeders are small and squirrel proof to keep big birds out...... I change my mind, looking at it on paper, it's alot....oh well

Winter I have one platform feeder that sits on the benches on the patio.....and that gets filled with a variety of seed (sometimes twice a day) for everyone. Then one birdbath with an electronic de-icer in it.
shelley

[Talon 1]

Originally Posted by shelley810

I change feeders alot, depending on who has discovered them or who is destroying them.
Right now:
2 oriole feeders
2 mealworm feeders
2 hummingbird feeders
2 grape jelly holders
1 nijer sock
1 sm black oil sunflower seed feeder
2 safflower seed feeders
one sm sunflower chip finch feeder
1 suet log (holds 4 plugs)
1 woodpecker block (doubles as a starling and squirrel feeder:()
2 bird baths
1 pond with bird bubbler
sounds like alot, but most of the seed feeders are small and squirrel proof to keep big birds out...... I change my mind, looking at it on paper, it's alot....oh well

Winter I have one platform feeder that sits on the benches on the patio.....and that gets filled with a variety of seed (sometimes twice a day) for everyone. Then one birdbath with an electronic de-icer in it.
shelley

Thats great!..............So what do the Neighbours think

[shelley810]

They think it is too cool and put up feeders of their own.....
Filled with what I call cheap seed, so they, too keep the birds around.....grackles, starlings, house sparrows......
shelley

[Talon 1]

Thats great shelley.

I am beginning to notice that alot of the Birds dont like feeding from the two feeders that are dropped down either side of the main one. They feel uncomftable as i believe it could be that they move around more as they are on hooks and not a solid top screw cap!
Even when the top runs out they are very reluctant to feed from them and rarely do.

[Blackbird]

I have
3 Seed Feeders
1 peanut feeder
1 ground table with cage.

[Tim42]

I have 1 Suet feeder, 1 Tube feeder and 1 Hopper feeder. My other Tube feeder got destroyed by those blasted squirrels!

[shelley810]

Originally Posted by Tim42

I have 1 Suet feeder, 1 Tube feeder and 1 Hopper feeder. My other Tube feeder got destroyed by those blasted squirrels!

Hey Tim, go to Duncraft and get the small 'squirrel proof' feeder that is a tube cage within another cage. It does well with sunflower, safflower, sunflower bits (not super crushed) and peanuts. It keeps larger grackles, bluejays and starlings out (they can barely reach the spilled lower part). Squirrels ignore it unless there is nothing else to get at, and at best "shake some" free but haven't destroyed them. That's the best solution I have for them....one easy pickens feeder the rest are specific.
shelley

ps-- the squirrels have a major sweet tooth and have figured out the oriole feeders.....again.....and all it took was a relocate them on a shepards hook closer to the house......they'll probably figure that one out next year, too.

[daltonjj]

Comments regarding squirrel problems ... I built a feeder with a counter balanced bar which will close when too much weight is on the bar. That usually means some larger bird or several 5-6 sparrow size birds. Squirrels discovered they could hang by their rear legs and feed without touching the bar. Being a mechanical engineer, I was not going to be outdone by some squirrels, so I fastened the grate from an old refrigerator onto the roof so that the squirrels could not reach the bar from the roof. When there is a will, there is a way!!!! So far (for several years) I have won the battle.
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[shelley810]

Originally Posted by daltonjj

Comments regarding squirrel problems ... I built a feeder with a counter balanced bar which will close when too much weight is on the bar. That usually means some larger bird or several 5-6 sparrow size birds. Squirrels discovered they could hang by their rear legs and feed without touching the bar. Being a mechanical engineer, I was not going to be outdone by some squirrels, so I fastened the grate from an old refrigerator onto the roof so that the squirrels could not reach the bar from the roof. When there is a will, there is a way!!!! So far (for several years) I have won the battle.
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LOL!!!!!!
There is a strikingly similar one out in the mass market, based on the same principle. But yours is the master!
Way to go.
shelley