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Dish bird feeders are a great way to invite your feathered friend to visit. Unlike garden feeders, which sit on the ground or on top of a stand, or tube feeders, which are enclosed and typically larger holding the food inside the tube, dish bird feeders are open, smaller and are able to hang from a multitude of locations.

Available in cute designs such as frogs and sophisticated grapevines and verdigris, these are an attractive addition to any garden, patio or balcony. They are lovely metal dishes with pewter and silver finishes that look exquisite in any setting. The dish bird feeder is easy to maintain and fill, since it is open and easy to access.

Maintaining your dish bird feeder is a simple matter of regular cleaning. This is a simple matter of washing the dish in a solution of water, mild soup and vinegar. Wash and rinse the dish thoroughly, then allow it to dry completely prior to refilling. Because mold and fungus in the seed can result in respiratory diseases in birds, it is important to keep the dish clean for healthy bird visitors. Checking the seed periodically is a good way to gauge, if it is time to clean your dish bird feeder. Another quick way to tell is if birds stop visiting your feeder.

Selecting a place to hang your new dish bird feeder is more than a matter of aesthetics. To avoid unwanted dinner guests, such as squirrels, you will need to carefully choose a location that the birds can get to without the squirrels having access. This may be a bit of a challenge, but it is not impossible. Hanging the dish bird feeder from your balcony or patio may be the perfect solution. Pigeons on the other hand, are a much more difficult problem. They can be very greedy visitors and hard to uninvite. One option is to simply remove the food source for a few days and replace it after they have been gone for a while.

The feed you choose for your dish bird feeder will depend on what type of birds you would like to see, and which species are in your area. For example, millet will attract doves, blackbirds, house sparrows, juncos, towhees, tree sparrows and more. Conversely, corn draws starlings, jays, bobwhite quail, red-necked pheasant and others. Many pet stores and feed stores offer quality seed to fill your dish bird feeder, and most will be able to assist you in choosing the proper food to attract native birds to your yard.

Don’t feel like you are locked into using the dish bird feeder strictly for drawing birds to your backyard. There other unconventional uses for the dish bird feeder. It is such an attractive item that using it inside would only add to your homes décor. Trying hanging it in your kitchen under a cabinet near your sink and using it to hold your sponge or dish rag, the same concept would work in a bathroom for a soap bar or washrag. By removing the chain, the dish bird feeder could be used as a candy dish to feed your own little breed. Another suggestion is to hang the piece from your ceiling and place potpourri in the dish to freshen the room.

Please view the online catalog of Exterior Worlds to browse through all of the available bird feeders. There are additional items available to adorn your home and garden in the catalog, as well. Be sure to visit often, because we periodically update our merchandise, and you wouldn’t want to miss a thing.