Christopher Helms wrote:
>Thomas wrote:
>>Christopher Helms wrote:
>> >> This time of year is very tough on all the little critters.
>>
>>I often wonder how many perish. It's 10f right now and going to zero.
>>I feed them and wonder if I am helping. Must be hard to find food with
>>all the snow.
>
>They're very good at locating anything people put out for them.
>I put out unsalted in shell peanuts. A lot of people around here
>are good about helping them out.

I feed birds an assortment of seeds including in-shell peanuts, suet
blocks, table food scraps, and they even help themselves to dried pet
food, nothing edible goes into my trash... rather than toss cooking
fat into the trash I scrape it out onto the snow.... many people feed
birds so they quickly learn to make their rounds... and since there
are many farms here birds are seen feeding with the livestock. Lots
of birds are killed from flying into glass, not many starve to death.
Naturally like all critters birds die of old age and disease. All my
fly-thru window situations are well identified to greatly minimize
birds attempting to fly through; I hang CDs and paper tags from thread
so that they flutter and the backs of my window shades have a black
raptor silhouette taped to them... there are web sites where you can
print the raptor silhouette. Plants on a window sill is a big NO-NO.
There are many products but I've found hanging CDs works best.
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