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© 2011 Donna L. Watkins Female House Finch Eating Safflower Seeds |
• Check the condition of feeders and squirrel baffles to make sure they will make it through another winter. Replace the ones you can't repair.
• Stock up on sunflower seeds in any form. They offer the greatest amount of energy for the birds in winter.
• Birds that are migrating south need water to both refresh themselves and to maintain their flight feathers.
• In the North, revert exclusively to suet and seed, as the fruit and insect eaters have gone south for the winter.
• After all the orioles and hummingbirds have passed through the area, remove all sugar-water feeders.
• Revert to simpler, shallower birdbaths that you can heat when the temperatures drop below freezing.
• Plant evergreens around feeders to protect birds from predators, and to provide safe roosting sites during cold winter nights.
• Take down most birdhouses and clean with a solution of 10% bleach.
• Leave several birdhouses up all winter as roosting sites for chickadees, bluebirds and woodpeckers.
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