Usually My Grandpa feeds the birds and makes sure the feeders and bath are ready. He forgot to buy me peanuts as Iam run out but he did fill up the bath though. Try and get peanuts shortly.
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Who feeds the birds for you when you are away on holiday? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Euan Buchan
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Are you kidding??? I could never leave MY birds to anyone else's care!!! 
Actually, my mother-in-law used to fill them for me before we moved but I haven't had reason to ask anyone since moving here. Probably would ask the neighbours next door tho' or the lady across the street, if I had to.
Actually, my mother-in-law used to fill them for me before we moved but I haven't had reason to ask anyone since moving here. Probably would ask the neighbours next door tho' or the lady across the street, if I had to.
Vik
Active member
I understand that house sitting and pet sitting services will feed birds -- for a fee, of course. I think paying for a service might be superior to asking friends or family to help out. Unless they are bird lovers, too, friends and family can sometimes be forgetful or casual about the whole thing.
songbird6666
Registered User
What's a holiday? I haven't been able to get away for a holiday because of having pets for 10 years. I have had two weekends away the year before last and then was worrying all the time that my neighbour wasn't looking after my chickens or budgies properly!
Janshorty
Well-known member
My mother-in-law fills my feeders for me, she uses it as a good excuse to sit and watch them 'in peace'. She only has a small garden and her house is right off the main road, so she doesn't get half the different birds that I do. I think she would be upset if I asked her not to bother!!
How's this for a nifty idea, passed on to my mother by an acquaintance who has to travel away a lot. She couldn't bear the idea of her garden birds going hungry, and didn't have anyone else that she could rely on, so she bought a downpipe (the sort that comes from guttering -hope I got the technical term right), and two of the curly bits that come at each end. She fills this up with bird food. One of the curly bits goes on the top to keep the rain out, the other curly bit goes on the bottom with the food spilling out. She then props the whole thing up at a slight angle. Must take an enormous amount of food, but it keeps her birds happy while she's away.
Katy Penland
Well-known member
What a cool idea! Wish I'd known about this when our whole town was evacuated for two weeks a couple years ago due to wildfire! (Our house was spared, thankfully.) When I'm away, my sister will feed the birds -- as long as I leave little Post-It notes stapled to each bag as to how much and where the feed is to be scattered. (I don't use feeders but scatter the seeds in various parts of our "yard", which is 2.5 acres of forest.) And I have to leave plenty of hummingbird "nectar" already prepared so she can refill those feeders, which get emptied within 5-12 hours depending on time of year. Amazing how much those little teeny birds can drink!!!florall said:
