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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dan123" data-source="post: 1788323" data-attributes="member: 84478"><p>Thing is though it's apart of Nature. Birds do get diseases the same as everything else. By us feeding them we are simply just asisting the birds. Though I understand a build up of food etc can cause a more likely hood of disease forming, but we cannot control it. And its too my understanding birds prefer feeding stations that have not been altered for a while and prefer water that has been in the trays for a while if it is rain water. So, either way what we do it seems, we can't win. So I think if we just look at it in we are just assisting the birds and give things a clean when they need them, or once a month should be fine if things are is relitavlty clear. Otherwise we are going to constantly be worrying if we are spreading diseases around for the birds or not. And whether we put food out or not, they still will have their own diseases and feeding places and it will all take it's natural corse and who is going to be around to clean them!</p></blockquote><p></p>