Have you got a bird table in your garden?

@maximax8 (31055)
United Kingdom
March 2, 2009 12:52pm CST
I would like to buy my mum a bird table for her birthday. March is a special mouth her because she has Mother's Day and then a few days later it is her birthday. I am trying to decide what type of thing to get her. Her neighborhood has a few cats so I would like to make sure the wild birds are safe. I have seen metal wild bird feeding stations and traditional wooden bird tables for sale. Have you got a bird table in your garden? If so what it is like? If not would you like to have a bird table?
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9 responses
• Sweden
3 Mar 09
Of course I have I bird table in my garden, right in front of the kitchen window, so I can look on the little birds when I do the dishes... Keep on lotting
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
3 Mar 09
No, I don't have a bird table. Most Americans have bird baths if they're going to have something, a place for them to drink. Now a bird table is interesting. Never contemplated that. We have a cat and now cats at our house and I try not to have birds around any more than they can just eat.
@faith210 (11224)
• Philippines
3 Mar 09
Hi maxine daer! Oh that sure is a nice thing to give your mother. i am sure that she would really love it. I do not have a bird table in our garden but I sure would like one. If ever I am could have one, I think I would want something that is made of metal or concrete cement. Take care and blessings to you! lovelots..faith
@amanda333 (739)
• France
2 Mar 09
Hi Max...No I couldn't have a bird cage in my garden, the cats would have them in a shot. I adore birds, beautiful little things, but you've no pleasure with our cats, they think dinner. I have a budgie in the house and I have caught them laying over the cage, I have to watch them all the time. If you buy your dear mum a bird cage, you'll have to make sure its safe, because it will upset your mum if the cats kill the birds. Someone gave me a tip once...if you place an open umbrella upside down under the tree the cats can't get the birds
@dawnald (85129)
• Shingle Springs, California
2 Mar 09
What's a bird table? Some kind of a feeder?
@guybrush (4658)
• Australia
3 Mar 09
I have a birdbath in my garden - it's a bronze one on a pedestal in the middle of a circular, raised garden bed. It's lovely to look out of my office window and watch the birds splashing in the water and squabbling. We have two other water features, and the birds enjoy these, too. I'm hoping we have a good frog population this year as well.
@Darkwing (21583)
2 Mar 09
I have a wooden one, but the cats can't climb it. Either they can't or they can't be bothered because the post is too narrow, probably. I do have a little squirrel visitor who gets up there for the nuts though. lol. It's like a little wooden house, I guess, open on all four sides, which even the crows have trouble getting into! The food goes inside the little house which stands on about a four foot pole, with a stand on the bottom, which is pegged into the lawn. Brightest Blessings.
@suspenseful (40193)
• Canada
2 Mar 09
I do not, but a few of our neighbors have some. Some of them have the regular Martin house, usually it is in three stories, and some have the regular bird feeding stations. Most of the time they are the regular wild bird feeding tables and we can also get them at Walmart along with those seed balls. Of course, we have very intelligent birds here in Winnipeg, plus an apple in our backyard, so we do not need one ourselves, but my best friend who moved to British Columbia had a metal bird feeder that she attached to a tree.
@bombshell (11256)
• Germany
2 Mar 09
how i wish we have a garden here maxi