Bird feeders

Set up 5 feeders and have had a great time watching them while sipping on my morning coffee, more varieties of birds around here than I ever thought

I used to really like having them until the squirrels and raccoons found them. They just turned it into a mess.

I used to have feeders but also got tired of the mess. Something that surprised me by being such a draw to the yard was the fountain with moving water. I'll have entire flocks of birds come in at once.

Whitewings eat about 5 lbs a day if I keep them full.

Get a Brome Squirrel Buster feeder. When the weight of an animal heavier than a bird is on it, their weight causes a sleeve to shut off the seed ports. I've had one for two years and the squirrels just gave up on even trying.

I agree with TG. I have 3 of the feeders as he described. Squirrels tried for a while and then gave up. I use the black oil sunflower seeds exclusively in the feeders. Living in the woods in East Texas, I get a wide variety of birds that visit.

Summer sugar water for the hummers, seed feeders Dec-Mar for whatever comes along. This year's been a disappointment. One cardinal pair, several mourning and white wing doves, meadowlarks, and hordes of various blackbirds. See squirrels in the yard but the pecans are still dropping nuts so they haven't come up to the house yet. 1st year we've had deer come up to the feeders. Don't see them, visit during the night leaving piles of their calling cards behind. Knocked over the concrete bird bath and busted it all to hail and back.

We feed em all, my wife goes thru 50 lbs of bird seed in about 2 weeks.
Won't be long and I'll be filling the sugar water for the hummers, they are my favorites.
Squirrels, possums and coons are fat around here too, and they do knock over the bird baths at times, but have never broken one.

Everyone eats whatever they want from wherever they want, at my house.

My pool hot tub is one large birdbath

Dang Iconn4, you’ve got a zoo going on in your yard!

My Deer/Bird feeder

I admire your pictures except for the raccoons. My wife buys shelled pecans at Sam's and can feed the fox squirrels by hand. She has only been bitten one......lol

Awesome!

Side Note: Seems that your cat gets along well with the fox.skunk, and raccoons . Again

I throw spilled hen scratch outside my chicken yard several times a week. Lotta feathered critters come for a snack. Now squirrels gettin in the chicken feed troughs can be unhealthy for them.

I have a Ruger 10/22 squirrel feeder for when the tree rats get on my wife’s bird feeders. Works quite well.

My dogs will graze under my feeders after I fill them. They will poop seeds for a day. I usually pick up milo at the feed store to put in the feeders. It is less then half the price of economy bird seed. I don't mind the tree rats at my bird feeders. I just get a better shot at them. I would rather feed them seed than pecans.

Thanks Stump jumper - will have to try the milo.

They're fat around here too, but the dog are in shape.

We have that same bird feeder at the lake. Squirrels don’t even try anymore.

I want this execution chair ( Table for One) for the pesky tree rats.

I am not a cat person at all. But that cat there just don't give a ****.

Great pictures!

"Bad" year for DW's feeders this year. She put 4 and a corn wheel out front, 1 out back. Hardly anything goes to the backyard feeder. We see mostly blackbirds of various kinds, some meadowlarks and doves. Haven't seen any of our woodpeckers and only a few of her "pretty birds" like cardinals and finches. The pecans are still dropping nuts so the squirrels haven't started raiding the feeders yet, not that they can get by the baffles anyway. Once or more a week some deer come up and scavenge what's on the ground. D***ed things knocked over the concrete birdbath and busted it and a couple of flagstones.

If only hides were still worth the trouble

Yep, that is one self-confident barnyard cat.

Raccoons - a leading carrier of rabies. I've seen several that were likely afflicted, and had one family member get attacked by one.