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Bird droppings around feeders

Betty38Betty38 Posts: 1
in Problem solving

I enjoy feeding the birds and have several feeders on my Rowan Tree, but the bird droppings look terrible.  It makes a mess of surrounding plants and the bare/gravelled ground.  The falling seed causes problems too.

Does anyone have any solutions for cleanable and nice looking ground covering? Or anything that will camouflage it?

Thanks.

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  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053

    Fact of nature I'm afraid. No grow seed will help the germination problems if any. 

    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Where you have birds you'll have bird droppings .... that's nature .... rain will usually deal with it .... we've not had a lot of that this year .... just one of those things.

    As has been said, No Grow or No Mess bird food will avoid too much mess ... we find that the ground feeding birds, blackbirds, wood pigeons etc, together with the hedgehogs, hoover up most of what is dropped.  


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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