Window Bird Feeder

Lizzie27 · February 2023

I've just bought one of those stick-on see-through bird feeders for hopefully, the visiting robins but I'm not quite sure where to site it - high up on a window away from squirrels or lower down the window and closer to a bush?

There's outside door/window handles, hinges and windowsills to consider re the squirrels and their considerable full length ability.

Any ideas please?

SueAtoo · February 2023

Put one up a few days ago, about head height, in the middle of a smallish window with no handles or hinges. It's about 10' from a fence and bushes. I've seen a robin visit twice (when i've been watching).

Lizzie27 · February 2023

Thanks for that @SueAtoo, good to know.

Slow-worm · February 2023

Yes it's best put near to a 'safe' place a few feet from a bush, but not so near as to obscure their all round view. Once they get used to it they'll feel safe feeding there.
It can take a few days for some birds to visit, so if you don't have much action quickly, give it a while longer. 😊

SueG1 · February 2023

I put one up a couple of months ago, in the middle of the kitchn window about 4 feet from the ground as I didn't want squirrels reaching it. Squirrel did try to jump up to it but hit the window and just slid down it and as far as I can see has not attempted it again! It does take a while for the birds to get used to it but I have regular robins visiting now.

Joyce Goldenlily · February 2023

I put one up a couple of months ago. It is about 6ft from the ground, on the centre panel of a 3-panel casement window. No external handles. There is nothing near it except a fence and bank about 14ft away. A path runs alongside the house where the window is.
It took the birds several weeks to begin feeding, mainly tits and robins. They just land on it, grab a mealworm or suet pellet and fly away, they are very flighty if I am sitting at the table by the window indoors but they must be coming to feed quite regularly because the food is disappearing, or I do not sit at the window for long.

Lizzie27 · February 2023

Thanks Joyce, there's been no takers yet but it's early days.

I thought I might try moving it to the other window and lower down but the suction pads are so strong I couldn't get it off!

Joyce Goldenlily · February 2023

MayLizzie27 said:

Thanks Joyce, there's been no takers yet but it's early days.

I thought I might try moving it to the other window and lower down but the suction pads are so strong I couldn't get it off!

Maybe that is a sign you should leave it where it is? A thin-bladed knife might lift the edges of the suction pads. I would definitely go for more height, just above head height so you do not have to struggle when taking it down for cleaning or refilling. It would make life difficult for predators as well.
My feeder has suddenly become very busy the last few days, as I sit at the table there is a satisfying bump each time a bird lands on it, one of the Great Tits has become brave enough to sit for a few seconds to eat 3/4 items so hopefully, with time, more will pluck up enough brave to do the same. It is fascinating to see the birds so close.

It looks as if one of my new nesting boxes is going to be home to a Great Tit which is spending a lot of time in and around it, it keeps going into it and looking out through the opening, so sweet. Deciding if the view is good enough. The winter flowering honeysuckle bush is only a couple of feet away from it, useful for when the babies fly the nest. In my previous garden a blackbird used to nest every year in the honeysuckle bush, I live in the hope the same will happen here when the bush is thick enough to satisfy the local blackbirds.

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