How often do you refill your bird feeder (seed feeders)?
Question:We just hung some and the seed seems to go quickly! They're hanging so no critters can get them.. but they're pretty busy with birds, mainly American Goldfinch so far.
Answers:
We fill once or twice a day, and clean the feeders a couple of times a week: the feeders are a central source for infections to be passed around between the visiting birds, so it's cruel to help distribute disease.
It seems that once there are more mouths to feed, as they have babies in the nests now, that we get through tons more food. They'll soon move off though, to their own new patches.
Good luck! Rob
We fill our feeders once or twice a day, we have Cardinals, Titmouse, black capped chickadees, blue jays, indigo buntings, chipping sparrows, yellow and red finch, rose brested grouse beaks, sparrows and the infamous brown headed cow birds which you need to eliminate as they lay eggs in other birds nest and either kill off the other birds, break the eggs or their egg will hatch first and crowd out the nesting birds young. We also have blue birds, mocking birds, cat birds, humming birds and probably some that I haven't had a chance to look up in the book. We live in Tennessee.
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