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Neighbors birdfeeder.
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:20 pm
by Gutholm
So my neighbor has a bird feeder kind of close to the back of there yard, and I was planing on growing my garden in a small fenced in area in the back of my yard. I was wondering if this would be a problem, or if the bird feeder would actually attract the birds attention elsewhere.
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 12:51 pm
by Charlie MV
Our yard is loaded with bird feeders and we've never had a problem with birds eating what we grow. Occasionally they peck at the season's first few tomatoes but they stop after sampling one or two. I have read about people who have to net off their vegetables from birds but we've never had to. The abundance of feeders do make easy pickin's for the birds.
Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2009 5:16 pm
by cynthia_h
You may find that the bird feeders attract birds who will eat insects which would otherwise attack your vegetables.
There *are* insect-eating birds in addition to seed-eating birds; I'm not sure which species will eat both. But wouldn't that be a nice way of insect control?
Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9