"Lawrence" writes:

On Feb 18, 6:42 pm, "HeyBub" wrote:

How do you feel about people who have bird feeders?

I don't mind if folk feed the birds though I do not.
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Wild critters only use feeders as a supplement to their diet and
studies have shown that when feeders are removed they return directly
to natural feeding and mortality is mostly unchanged.

That study doesn't sound right to me.

The number of birds in an area is directly related to the amount of
food and shelter. In areas where there is shelter but not enough
food, a feeder will increase the bird population and when the feeding
is stopped, the birds have to starve.

The way I see it, the purpose of a feeder is to bring birds closer
to places where we can see and enjoy them.

I don't have a bird feeder right now but I do have a butterfly bush.
It's not there for the butterflys, it's there because it's nice to watch
the butterflys and it's an attractive bush.

Sure, we mess with nature all the time. That's our nature.