My husband filled our two bird feeders on Wednesday evening. Both were empty as of sunset Friday.
I wish I had a photo to show you.
Once the feeders were filled the birds filled our yard. They were in the Rose of Sharon tree and sitting atop the tall roses. They were on the interlocking stones that we made our raised flower beds with. They were everywhere!
One of the bird feeders is quite large. It’s about a foot and a half tall and five or six inches in diameter. It holds a lot of seeds. Two days … just two days and it’s empty!
The other bird feeder is also about a foot and a half tall but it’s only two inches in diameter. It suits smaller seeds, the more expensive seeds like neger seeds. It’s empty too.
These birds are going to eat us out of house and home!
We have pig-ish birds too! We have automatic feeders for our dogs in a shed outside. I noticed that red birds were coming regularly, but one day, I was out in the yard longer, and I realized that there was a steady stream of birds. I think they were telling their friends about the buffet that we serve! We had to resort to scheduled feeding again, because the dogs were constantly running out of food. Poor things – I thought THEY were the pigs!
Luck you. In our garden, squirrels beat the birds. They are really hungry it seems.We used to replenish the feed container 4 times a day sometimes.
How do you keep out the squirrels?