Top Ten Foods for Winter Birdfeeding

(Or Bird Feeding Made EZ)

Found this article originally posted in 'Birdwatchers' Digest' that summarized rather nicely much of the information about attractive food for our winter feeder visitors (at least here in the north).

http://www.cedar-works.com/newsite/top_winter.html

Now that the temps have dipped down and the Alberta Clippers are blowing in, I thought the quick info would help out those who want to help our feathered friends survive the next few months.

And a more precise birdfood chart http://www.cedar-works.com/newsite/seed_chart.html

Bluejay pic from Wikipedia open source.

Thanks tabasco, nice list.

Thanks - good reference. I can't believe those poor, tiny birds can survive this horrible weather. The goldfinches have been going through about a half gallon milk jug of nyger seed a day at our house.

Thx Tabasco! Good info for a novice like me.

I went out this morning to refill our feeders, too. Seven inches of snow and temps in the single digits.

I hope my Carolina Wrens survive (along with the other birds, of course.). I read somewhere about the die-offs of this little sensitive-to-cold wren. Below is a graph that shows the ups and downs of the carolina wren population during the 1970's and early 80's.

During the 1980's the population rebuilt until the bitter cold winter of 1993 when the carolina wrens were killed off by as much as 80 or 90 % in our region. (I wish I could find the article about it--it's the reason I started feeding the birds in winter!)


This message was edited Feb 7, 2007 10:14 AM

That percentage is pretty scary.

Funny that c. wrens ended up in this thread. I came on to say that I put out some fancy shaved parmesan cheese on my deck, and the carolina loves it!