There are a lot of products on the market, not that expensive, to help protect birds from outdoor cats. Here's a link to a bunch of them: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1216048030/bird-safe-rainbow-cat-collar-cover-cat. These include various kinds of vibrantly colored scarves, with or without bells. Another idea I saw is a solar-powered (I think) light near feeders that increases visibility of cats prowling around feeders between dusk and dawn.
People have very strong feelings about cats, one way or another, so diplomacy is obviously in order when making a request of a neighbor. You could offer to pay for any devise that the owner might agree to use, and show the owner how safe it is by doing a little online research.
--Tom
On 11/12/22, 10:33 AM, "Upper Valley Birders on behalf of Ian Baldwin" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> On Nov 12, 2022, at 9:24 AM, anne steele <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I’m eager to hear cat deterrence ideas because I have this problem as well.
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>> On Nov 12, 2022, at 9:07 AM, Amy Orr <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi friends,
>> Does anyone have any advice about how to thwart a neighborhood cat from being quite so successful at hunting the birds under our newly hung feeders? (They are suspended above bear height and we bring them in at night) This is the 1st year we’ve had a neighborhood cat…I guess we’ve been lucky in that regard. Our ideas have ranged from 1. A platform under the feeder to catch most of the seed, 2. A chicken wire fence, 3. Some physically obstructive bare tree branches underneath the feeders that the birds can easily get through but that will slow the cat down, 4. A simple barrier (right now it’s a turned-on-its-side picnic table bench) to hide the cat’s view of the birds. The cat will then have to spring “blind” over the barrier and the birds will have more time to scatter is our thinking there…
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>> Just wondering if anyone else has any other ideas that have worked for them.
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>> Thanks!
>> Amy
>> (Cat lover AND bird lover)
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