"Wow" to keep mess free under outdoor bird feeder 

Excellent! Many thanks for the inspiration.

I would never want to be hired by you to redo your master bathroom!! NNO!! Though I am very meticulous with bath upgrades! That was amazing to see the levels at which you took to manage the grounds of wild bird feeding! Wow!! You designed, and upgraded your design! You taught me a lot!! Thankyou!! I have a smaller confined space, and now have a lot of planning and work to do! All thanks to you! Thankyou! You are very talented!

Wow! Excellent idea and improvement in your next observations. I really appreciate this particular content! I've envisioned something like this and you've made sense of everything, practical, organized, clean, durable and seeds are sade and everyone has a place. Even the larger birds! Beautiful!!! I am so happy to see how the rubber landscape edging lasted! Great ideas and beautiful outcome! Thank you for sharing!! Wonderful content!🎉❤

Very ingenious! At first when I looked at the video, I thought that the ground covering was like a ceramic sphere. This is amazing and I’m sure that it doesn’t cost as much as a ceramic sphere would cost. Ma’am, you are a true genius and have made someone’s birdwatching experience easier! KUDOS ❤❤❤

Wow! Your video popped up on my feed and initially, I thought it was weird. I started watching anyway (because we also have messy bird feeders here) and I was so impressed with your strategy and details. And I especially love that you showed the evolution from 2018 until now. Great job! I will like and subscribe :)

You are so clever and talented! Thank you for feeding the birds🐦💕

Great ideas. I have 100-200 birds a day with the winter we've been having... there's been snow on the ground for 2 1/2 months that has finally melted... what a mess. I'd been trying to figure a way to deal with it. Normally I just hose it down but with freezing temps I cannot connect a hose. Anyway, this will be a great solution 3/4 of the year when I can connect a hose. Love how you used the dust pan... that was brilliant. Thanks!

Well done. This should be "pinned" for the birders out there. I laid red bricks in a circular pattern well outboard of my pole, and left the 4' ground circle under the station earth. Trying to rake and shovel the shells away in the dirt is a nightmare. I love your idea here, and will incorporate it. Thanks for posting.

So much work to tidy up for the birds... Impressive construction, though! 😉 I came up with a less time consuming construction by not trying to clean up the ground under the feeders. To make it not look absolutely terrible and unhygienic for the birds, I started to hang the feeders on the support poles for my young trees that I grow in round raised beds to separate the young trees' drip line from the surrounding grass. Around my trees, in the raised bed, I mulch the ground, so the seeds that the birds dont pick up either sprout or decompose with the mulch. Now the birds are now decorating the ground around the fruit trees. This year I got more than 10 sunflowers, last year I got some linen. I have also planted some perennials that bloom and cover some of the mess too. Some birds, such as pigeons stomp them down, but I don't mind. :) If it still gets too messy, I just add some more mulch on top. Nature decomposes the bird mess and I can spend time on cleaning the feeders instead of the ground. 😅 I also think my trees appreciate the extra birdy boo-boo fertilizer, hehe.

This looks fantastic! Underneath our feeder is a big mess (and I worry about attracting vermin). So I am going to make this my next project! Thank you!

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Great video. We are planning new landscaping next spring and I have been trying to think of a solution for the mess under the feeders. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you, thank you problem solved. brilliant

VERY nice! Thank You!

Great job. Looks good. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for sharing your crafty Enginewity! You are very talented and considerate of the backyard birds. Bless you.

Looks great and great idea!

I can't wait to do this in the Spring!

Thank you so much for sharing this!!!! I really want to do something like this for my birds!!

Good job. You put in a lot of hard work there. Yes, seed that falls to the ground from a bird feeder will choke out the roots of the grass, and eventually kill it. Also, as you mentioned, seed that falls to the grass below a bird feeder can be a health threat to backyard birds as the moisture in the grass and roots can easily contaminate the seed with mildew or mold. When birds ingest seed that is contaminated this way they can become sickened with avian aspergillosis which can easily spread from bird to bird and is a fatal disease for them. Instead of cleaning below your feeder once a week, you might consider cleaning pretty much daily. I'm sure you've noticed bird droppings mixed up with seed that falls to the tarp below your feeder. When bird seed is contaminated with salmonella bacteria in bird droppings that are deposited on the seed from a bird infected with salmonellosis, it can lead to the spread of that avian disease when birds ingest this seed. Like avian aspergillosis, salmonellosis can then spread easily from bird to bird in a flock and larger populations of birds flocks belong to. I actually trap bird seed that falls to the ground below my feeders. The trap has chicken wire across the top that enables the seed to fall to the bottom of the trap, but is a small enough grid of wire to keep birds from being able to access the trapped seed. For whatever it's worth, you're doing a great job making your conditions and environment a much more sanitary one for your backyard birds. The vast majority of backyard birders participate in the hobby mindlessly and with little to no considerations for how their dropping-covered, bacteria-laced feeders and garden environments can pose a constant, year-round health hazard for garden birds.

Wow.... you did a fantastic job with your bird feeder. I know the birds & other wildlife love it.

Excellent. Thank you!

very creative. i've never seen that kind of seed catcher. i wonder if it stops squirrels from climbing pole?

This is awesome! Thank you so much for the idea!

Great idea and we fed birds for many years until we had a rat infestation which sadly ended our bird feeding.

You have given me some great ideas! I have the same messy seeds falling on the ground, sprouting and just messy. I am getting supplies together and following your great.idea! Thank you for sharing!

What an awesome idea. I would have to keep WD40 on the pole to deter the squirrels 😂

Excellent idea and work. Thanks for the share.

Nice job. You're giving me some ideas. I'm still in the "moving the feeder around every couple of weeks" stage, but that is really just spreading the destruction of the lawn around. Question: how do you keep squirrels out of the feeders?

After installing the weed barrier, why did you add the tarp?

Very clever!

It was hard to understand her accent, but she gives wonderful tips ❤

Really nice design

We can't have a bird feeder because the fallen seeds attract rats. But, great idea.

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So with this method even more seeds start sprouting...

Do you have a link to the materials?

How do you fill the high feeder?

How do you keep out mice?

Good idea to have a clean up before dusk every evening but an overly tidy garden is not supporting wildlife.. The birds have a part to play yes, but nature is a self supporting circle that has worked for millennia.

Clearly no squirrel problems! Don’t know if this would work with squirrels.

You could have cemented the floor will last much longer..