Does anyone feed birds with a feeder attached to their deck? What do you use to attach the feeders? I have a Advanced Pole System from Wild Birds Unlimited that I thought they made a bracket for. My main question is do the birds make a mess on the deck? I wanted to get the feeder away from the deck as much as possible but I figured the bird poop would probably still be bad.
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Deck Feeding? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter BrianEE93
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birdpotter
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You'll get the poo all right. But you can reduce the waste of seed by using sunflower hearts.
A weekly cleaning would be the best advice I could give.
Maybe someone else will come along with better advice!
A weekly cleaning would be the best advice I could give.
Maybe someone else will come along with better advice!
Katy Penland
Well-known member
The only feeders I hang above our decks are the nectar feeders for hummers. Their poo is so tiny, you can't even see it. Still, I clean the deck off at least once a week when the little darlings are here. 
I don't think I'd ever want seed feeders on or near the deck. My pole-based seed feeders are out in the middle of the yard, but I've turned to using only sunflower hearts/chips and not the whole seed so there's no hull waste to clean up; and I rake what little other seeds there are about once a week as well, toss it over the fence onto the forest duff so it can be scratched through (usually by the more shy Mourning and Eurasian Collared-Doves). This keeps the ground under the feeders fairly clean of droppings as well.
I don't think I'd ever want seed feeders on or near the deck. My pole-based seed feeders are out in the middle of the yard, but I've turned to using only sunflower hearts/chips and not the whole seed so there's no hull waste to clean up; and I rake what little other seeds there are about once a week as well, toss it over the fence onto the forest duff so it can be scratched through (usually by the more shy Mourning and Eurasian Collared-Doves). This keeps the ground under the feeders fairly clean of droppings as well.
