Bridger

=**My Bird Question is will birds prefer higher or lower bird feeders.**=

Introduction
For my project I will be examining the question, will birds respond better to a higher or lower bird feeder. I will examine this by doing an experiment with two bird feeders.

Question

 * My question is, will birds respond better to a higher bird feeder, or a lower one?

Research Summary

 * I had a lot of trouble trying to find any information on this topic, but I eventually found that an eye level or higher feeder might work better... But who knows?

Hypothesis

 * I think that there will not be all that much of a difference.

Variables

 * Independent- height of bird feeder, Dependent- how much bird seed is eaten.

Methods and Materials

 * What I did, was put one pole in the ground, and, for the first week I hung the two feeder s at the same height as a control. For the second week, I hung one feeder higher than the other on the same pole in the same place.

Results and Data

 * Unfortunately not a single bird came to my feeder any of the three weeks that I had them out there. Some of the reasons that this might have occurred could have been related to the type of seed, that I used or the time of year or any number of other variables that I will go into more detail about later.

Discussion
This experiment did not go as well as I had hoped. I did not get any birds to come to my feeders. Some of the reasons that could have happened are listed below.
 * Proximity to the house
 * type of seed
 * type of feeder
 * time of year
 * dogs
 * and of course noise from people on the road and on the trail next to my house