My neighbor said to put the bird feeder 10 feet from the window and she was dead right

Max Ramirez · 2026-10-03T18:15:04.965428+00:00

I had my feeder mounted right on the glass for 2 winters and kept finding stunned finches on the patio, probably 6 or 7 of them. My neighbor Ruth, who has fed birds in her yard off Orchard Street for 20 odd years, said to move it back 10 feet and skip the window mount. I grumbled about drilling a pole in the yard but did it in April, and I have not picked up a single dazed bird since. The funny part is now I barely see them up close, so I sit on the porch with coffee like some old guy watching traffic. Anyone else fought this and gone the other way with a feeder right on the glass?

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