Feeding The Birds

Many people feed the birds in the wild.  Some just love to watch them come to their feeders to eat and communicate.  Migrating birds need certain foods to sustain them through their long journey from here to there.  Did you know that some of them like special kinds of foods?  There are also many different and economical ways of feeding such birds.

One of them is considered a table feeder. It is simply just a table or something that can be used as a table for birds.  I use pot trays. I hang them from the eaves of my back deck.  You can use a myriad of things besides this.  

 Some of the other things you can you are:

·        old plates

·        flower pot trays

·        plastic festival plates that you can buy at Walmart

·        shallow bowls

·        party platters that were used to put meats or vegetables in for parties 

I bet you can come up with many other ideas as well.

I have found that even those birds that are tree climbers or walkers, as I call them, like Woodpeckers and such, hang on the sides of the feeders to feed.  It looks quite awkward for them.  I finally found a solution for them right out of my latest Mother Earth News Magazine.  They have a recipe for those types of birds and an idea of what t put it in.  It was simple and easy and the container is something every cook would have in the house.  They used an onion bag.  I bet your could also use a bag the oranges come in too.  They are stretchy and you can tie them knot one end and fill them up with a mixture of peanut butter, lard or bacon/hamburger grease and cornmeal or other seeds.  

In the Mother Earth News Magazine they call for a mixture of 

1 part peanut butter 

5 parts cornmeal.  

I would use crunchy peanut butter in mine though.  

Stuff the bag with the mixture and hang it high enough that the dogs and cats cannot get to it. 

These are nice to have in cooler and cold months when other food sources are not available for them and they can hang on the sides. 

In the warmer months you can just purchase the suet cakes that do not melt.  

© Debra K. Allen a.k.a Lady Guinevere

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