RE: Today's lesson : Don't throw bird seeds on the lawn
Hi @bearone Excellent your post. It’s a common occurrence.
While bird feeders are designed to beautify your yard by bringing in ebullient birds, spilled bird seed can be destroy your lawn and make the place look like a mess. Fortunately, the solutions for stopping a lot of bird seed from spilling out of the bird feeder onto your lawn are easy.
Believe it or not, the main reason so much bird seed falls out of feeder is because birds are naturally messy eaters. It’s hard to blame them considering they don’t have any hands or a real jaw. So, in order to stop the birds from making a mess, employ the same tactic you would when trying to prevent a baby from getting food on its clothes, create a buffer. You can do this by attaching a bird-seed catcher to your feeder, which does exactly what its name implies; it catches the bird seed before it hits the ground. Depending on the type of catcher you get, sometimes birds will even eat off of that.
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Great advice and thank you!
We dont have a bird feeder and I basically put the seeds in a bowl on the lawn and thats how all this started :D
I havent fed them seeds in a long time but were in the process of turning the yard into a food forest and the birds help themselves to the organic veggie garden and fruits now so no need for the bird feeder.
Hi @bearone Thank you very much. We all wish you the very best in the future.
You have worked hard on your garden and it looks lovely. My advice would be to keep it simple with regards to the feeding and maximise the opportunities for birds to use your garden for shelter, after all, food is just one of their essential needs.
Food forests are a proven concept. Yes, they’re up and running around the world, and they even work in urban areas. In terms of function, being a living ecosystem gives it properties and attributes that are not present in agricultural systems and many gardens.
Nature is referred to as ‘Mother Nature’ for a reason, it’s what mothered us; that is fed, clothed and sheltered us for most of our relatively short existence on this planet. Somewhere along the line, we lost our reverence for Nature, our belief in the connection to all living things, and our sense of harmony with our surroundings.
A food forest my not necessarily have all seven layers, but it does have multiple layers, and even more importantly, it is a virtually self-sustaining living ecosystem.
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