So here's a question for you birding experts out there. Does bird food go bad in the feeder? Why would birds avoid one? We've got two feeders that were left here at the house when we moved in. One on either side of the deck.
Initially last fall, the birds were hitting them both pretty equally. Then, last month, one was empty and the other 3/4 full. We didn't see many birds, so I thought they had all just gone for winter. The one feeder stayed 3/4 full for like a month or more. Then I thought with all the snow and cold weather, I'd put some food in the other feeder. I filled it up and then it was down to this low amount in just 2-3 days. The birds swarming this one while they still were avoiding the other one that's only like 10 feet away on the other side of the deck.
I decided maybe the food went bad? Anyways, I poured it out onto the snow, and then re-filled the feeder with fresh food. They seems to be hitting it a little more now. I then decided to switch the feeders locations. We'll see if that changes I suppose.
Any way it was nice to start seeing the birds again, and I've been hearing and seeing a lot more out there in the last week. I've seen a lot of BlueJays and even a Cardinal, which I was surprised at. We did have a few days of 30-40F degree weather. It seems very early in the year for all of them to start coming out this far north, but maybe we'll have an early spring.
