How to Help your Birds This Winter!!

Birds need a place to live, and also a place that provides food, water and shelter from predators.

When it gets cold and the winter winds blow, many “snow bunnies” move south to live in warmer weather. Many birds migrate south also, taking advantage of milder temperatures and southern cuisine with a greater variety of [...]

Winter Time Birds

Lots f people help the birds by throwing out stale bread for them to eat. Although this does elevate the birds hunger, bread isn’t a very nutritious food source.

Most garden bird’s staple diet is usually, fruit and berries, nuts and seeds, insects, worms and grubs, Very tasty.

To really help the bird out this winter you [...]

Winter Bird Care – Getting Your Back Yard Birds Through Wintertime

Many factors combine to make the winter months tough ones for our feathered friends. Food can be hard to find, as there is less of it, and what there is may be covered by snow and ice. The bushes and plants are mostly dormant, and for those birds that normally feed on insect, these too [...]

Bird Feeding in Winter – the Triple Play

Wild bird feeding is a very engaging and entertaining winter pastime. It also is very beneficial for the birds’ health. The cold weather months make it difficult for wild birds to find food. Backyard bird feeders provide much needed assistance in this regard. Three specific items, if properly maintained, can optimize [...]

Is it safe to leave an above ground pool empty over the winter?

Hi, we have an 18 ft round above ground pool. The poor thing didn’t have a fighting chance this past summer, we had two squirrels and a bird meet their fate in it, 8 holes in the liner and cold water so we never swam in it. We tried to keep up with it, but [...]

Should You Feed Wild Birds In The Winter?

Winter weather will soon be here in many parts of the country, yet many of us enjoy our wild birds year-round. Should you continue feeding them in winter? What should you feed them, and how should you go about it?
The “conventional wisdom” has always been that you should feed wild birds [...]

Winter Bird Care – Help Your Backyard Birds Through the Winter

One of the harshest facts about the winter months, especially in the northern states, is that many factors combine to make it hard for birds to find food.  First, there is just less of it.  Plants that many birds might feed on, such as berries, have just stopped producing in many areas, and those birds [...]

are heated bird baths safe for winter use in nh? Concern of feathers icing up leaving birds unable to fly?

This Winter, Provide Water For The Birds

Even the most novice bird watcher places a bird feeder out in
winter, what strikes me, is the number of experienced bird
watchers who do not provide water for the birds during winter.
The energy expanded looking for a fresh water source could be
better used for staying well and surviving the winter.
All wildlife needs water, Summer or Winter. [...]

Can you buy bird baths in the winter time?

I’d like to get my mother one for Christmas. Do stores still sell them in winter?

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