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Stepping outside after seeding a lawn only to find a flock of hungry birds treating the fresh seed as their dinner is a frustrating sight, and one that I am all too familiar with.

I’ve recently aerated and scarified my lawn to prepare it for overseeding , hoping for a lush lawn by spring. But now that all my hard work is complete, the birds have flocked in to spoil it.

So I called on Jonathan Davies, a grass expert at Lawnsmith , to find out what I can do to stop the birds from eating my freshly sown grass seed.

Why birds eat grass seed

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Before trying to scare the birds off, it helps to understand why they do it. Davis explains they are more of a problem at this time of year than most people expect.…