Should you add coffee grounds around your bird feeder?

From eggshells to peanut butter, there’s no shortage of kitchen scraps that gardeners swear by when it comes to feeding birds. Should you add coffee grounds to your bird feeder, though?

Yes, coffee grounds are having something of a moment, with many claiming that adding them to your bird feeder can deter pests, enrich your feeding area, and even benefit garden wildlife.

At first glance, it makes a certain kind of sense; coffee grounds are natural, readily available and already widely used in composting and soil improvement, after all. If they can help the garden, surely they can help the birds too?

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