Please click on this link and and see some ways we can help British Birds this winter
BIRDS CAN SURVIVE THE WINTER IF WE PUT FOOD OUT –
If we put bird food then birds don’t have to spend hours using their engery scratting for food. They will have more engery which will help them to survive the freezing nights
Lets hope he survives this harsh winter and can sing and enjoy the sun in 2010
We can help.
A Blue Tit spends 85% of a winter’s day looking for food. So it spends a lot of energy trying to find food.
If food is available on a bird table, a hanging feeder or on the ground the birds will have more energy to see them through the freezing night. This applies to many birds not just Blue Tits.
Lack of food can made a bird less alert and so more likely to be caught by predators, or if it does not get enough fat to last through the night it may die
Sometimes winter weather looks beautiful, but it hides the harshness of winter
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If you would like a place to meet and discuss birds in winter click this link which will take you to my Bird Table News Forum which I’m able to take part in after a break
http://birdtablenews.com/forums/
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In winter bird’s natural supplies such as insects and seeds run out and many garden birds, especially the small birds do not survive the freezing winter.
This freezing winter weather can be a killer for garden birds
Putting food out for garden birds is a way to stop garden birds from dying.
Putting food out for garden birds will really help them survive and is a positive thing to do.
I know this weather makes it hard for us as well. I myself hit a pothole and punctured two tyres one freezing evening. At the moment the snow is closing in near us, but if we can turn our thoughts to bird feeding we can all help our garden birds pull through the winter.
There are many things outside our control that cause the decline of the bird population. Feeding birds is something that is within our control.
There are may types of bird food on the market and if you would like any advice please let me know.
Putting out kitchen scraps and recycling old food is a good way to feed birds
Fruits such as apples, pears soaked dried fruit can be fed to birds.
Nuts are rich in fat. Hazelnuts, almonds and walnuts can be fed to birds. The most common nut we feed to birds is the peanut (unsalted peanuts)
Other kitchen scraps that can be used are cooked potatoes, rice, cake, cut up or grated cheese, ham fat.
Lard is good for birds in winter. I often melt some lard. When it is melted I pour it over bird food and mix it together. This does not make a fatball – it just gives birds fat coated bird food.
Lets all join together and all put bird food out across Britain this winter. It is really the worst weather in ages.
If you have any tips or would like advice please let me know.
Freezing weather and snow makes it hard for birds to find food and water and makes it hard for them to survive. It was so cold when I took this video in November.
The wind blew the snow and covered the grass and feeders within a few hours.
Here is a short video of a chaffinch in winter on a fence in my garden. I get a lot of chaffinches at the feeders. They never stay still for long, so it’s hard to video them!
They flit on and off the bird table and in and out of the meshed ground feeder.