Can cats and birds visiting backyard feeders and bird baths co-exist with-out the birds losing ?
March 25, 2010 by
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If the cats were mittens and muzzles or the birds are larger than ostriches
Never, you cant have your birds, and eat them too!
I’ve had great success with putting up bird feeders on upper story windowsills. They’re completely out of the reach of any cat, and it brings the birds right to your window for a beautiful show.
If it’s your own cat that might be visiting, a safety-release collar with a bell could give your feathered visitors a fighting chance.
i guess not but my cat lives there with the birds occasionally a bird gets killed but not often
I have 2 cats who spend a lot of time in the garden. I also feed the birds with a peanut feeder, seed feeder, fat balls and we have a bird bath. The birds use the bath, mainly for drinking, but the cats also prefer to drink from the bird bath. We have had some fatalities – mostly fledglings – but on the whole I think if you site your feeders out of reach of cats it should be o.k.
I have a big bird feeder, around 200 burds visit our feeder every day. I have 3 cats.
Specially the middle cat is a great hunter. We’ve had to take care of like 4 birds that he have catched.
Also the bigger they are the easier it is for him to catch them.
I try to keep the cats inside the house during the day, and when the birds are gone in the evening I let them out. Still, he catches some.
Birds also build their nests in our backyard an my cat goes at night and take the babies out. It’s horrible.
Also, stray cats come to eat the birds. We’ve had a couple of stray cats hunting in our backyard.
It’s kind of complicated you have to be alert
Cats are natural predators. Birds will always lose.