Please remember to feed birds if you have snow / ice

[SheltieLover]

I just tossed some healthy sprout bread out as my little feathered friends were asking for help.

Their metabolisms are so high that they need to eat constantly.

Ty!

[Diamond_Dog]

1. TY SheltieLover!

We always save leftover bread for our bird feeder. Mr. Diamond replenishes it every afternoon when taking our dog out.

[SheltieLover]

10. Ty & Mr. for looking after Mother Nature's other kids.

[MichMan]

2. Try and keep mine filled all the time

Must be 20 of them out there right now. Every now and then a deer comes over and eats out of it

[SheltieLover]

11. Nice!

Ty!

[Shellback Squid]

3. Costo sells a 40lb massive bag of bird feed for just $15, 40% sunflower seed, it's a very good deal

[SheltieLover]

12. Sounds like a great deal!

Ty!

[Soul_of_Wit]

4. Feed them when they need it

Too many folks keep the bird feeder filled only when the weather is nice.

[SheltieLover]

13. I never see birds here, except today.

[quaint]

5. It's 62 here now and I have dried mealworm loving birdies on the lawn, tweeting at me.

I'll give in shortly, just treats, because nature is plentiful since we had *rain* last week.

[SheltieLover]

14. Ty!

[Attilatheblond]

6. Husband was an advocate of peanut butter on whole grain bagles

hanging from trees. Black oil sunflower seeds for the ground feeders. He would toss seed under the van to assure the little guys could eat without too much raptor interference. He figured 'let them (the owls & hawks) eat mice'. That bit him on the butt when we found a cache of sunflower seeds stashed inside the back of the van, under the third row of pull-up seats.

Wildlife management degree and a lifetime of bird watching in COLD locations, New England, Montana, Austria.

[SheltieLover]

15. Thx for sharing!

[woodsprite]

7. Hubby refilled all our feeders last night before the snow started.

Right now there is not much left of anything. I think the hoard of grackles ransacked all the feeders - even the ones the were way too big for.

We're in the sleet/freezing rain line now so probably won't get out to refill until the storm ends.

[SheltieLover]

16. Ty!

[dem4decades]

8. It's 20 bucks here, but still a good deal.

Spent the day filling feeders yesterday, they've been busy all day today, not to mention the feed under the table on the deck.

My wife throws peanuts out for the squirrels too, and food for the possums to but they disappear in the cold and snow.

[SheltieLover]

17. Ty!

[Zackzzzz]

9. I put out suet that you buy.

The feeder box is right out my dining room window and
and I can see which birds are in the neighborhood.
When it is empty, the Jays sit on the porch railing,
point their head at the feeder and tell me, 'fill the feeder.'

[SheltieLover]

18. Ty!

[Donkees]

19. They are drinking a lot of water too, just had a robin stop by for a very long sip

I work at keeping the water warm for them during this arctic blast.

[SheltieLover]

21. Ty!

[Marie Marie]

20. I'm on it. The juncos are here in droves and I have more than a few little fat Cardinals and Sparrows.

I like to think I helped fatten them up for the winter.

[SheltieLover]

22. Ty!

[Skittles]

23. I spread out peanuts from a big bag

it was a squirrel and blue jay festival! also lots of sunflower seeds for the little ones

[Laffy Kat]

24. I put nuts and seeds out every morning, although I get almost no birds.

I don't know why. What I do get is squirrels, though. They have to eat, too. I was late getting up this morning, since I couldn't sleep last night due to the MN situation, and the poor squirrels were lined up on my fence waiting for me to come out. It was 9 degrees, windy and snowy. They got extra rations due to my guilt. One of the little females looks gravid, which I assume is odd for this time of year. She's the bravest of all and comes right up to me. I'm keeping an extra eye on her.

[SheltieLover]

25. Awww I love squirrels!

Very few here, but in Chgo burbs I fed them toasted peanutbutter sandwiches. One particularly cold morning they ate 7 1 lb loaves of bread & a huge xtra crunchy jar of peanut butter. I miss them...and my life. :-/

[Laffy Kat]

26. Awww. You know, I got some peanuts in the shell for mine...

But they didn't seem to like them as much as the walnuts and pecans. I finally realized that I'd gotten salted peanuts and that's probably not very good for them, anyway. I'll try crunchy peanut butter sandwiches. Great idea.

[SheltieLover]

27. Oh no. Salt is really bad for them.

I used to go to the feed store & get 10lb bags of unsalted peanuts for them too & the healthfood store would grind no salt peanuts into xtra chunky for them.

[Laffy Kat]

31. I didn't even realize about the salt.

I'll save those for the next Rockies game, I guess. I only put a few out to begin with. Won't do that again.

[ExtraGriz]

28. filled the bird feeder this morning..

It's cold and snowing like heck in southern Maine right now. But bird feeder is full of peanuts, sunflower and various other seeds....also a huge hunk of suet.

And peanuts in shell for the squirrels.

Stay warm everyone.

[SheltieLover]

29. Ty!

[rsdsharp]

30. A couple of years ago we had a lot of snow on the ground.

Our neighbors to the east (our back yards meet) are an older couple — like us. The man is a little unsteady on his feet — like me. Unlike us, they have bird feeders.

One day the gentleman bundled up to go out and fill the bird feeders — apparently while his wife was out of the house. Unfortunately, he fell on his ass. We asked if he was alright, and he said he was, but he was struggling to get up. We told him we’d call the EMTs, but he said no. Then he paused and said, sadly, “Judy’s gonna be mad!”. Judy is his wife and the neighborhood busybody.

He eventually was able to get up and get inside, so maybe Judy never knew.

[SheltieLover]

33. Lol

Being the talk of the town is not ok for him, right?

Glad he was ok.

[DFW]

32. We don't get nearly as much snow here as we used to

But we leave seed feeders out anyway, since we have numerous and varied birds where we live.

[SheltieLover]

34. Nice that you have birds.

I never see or hear any, but today they showed up asking for food.

[dem4decades]

35. We don't get a much snow as we used to either, till yesterday.

[SheltieLover]

40. True

[dem4decades]

41. My wife puts food on the deck table for the animals, this morning she had a pair of red shouldered hawks feeding

together on the table,

They were stunning.

[SheltieLover]

43. Wow!

Love it! Ty for sharing!

[question everything]

36. And a heated bath. For birds and squirrels, opossums deers and all creatures

[SheltieLover]

38. Nice!

[mnhtnbb]

37. Sunday night we had more sleet/freezing rain

which froze the seed I'd spread on top of the retaining wall. I didn't want to chance getting out to the feeders. So I put more seed out on top of the frozen mix. Boy, did the birds like that!
I'll go back to filling the feeders once it's safe to venture outside my courtyard.

[SheltieLover]

39. Glad you are staying safe!

[Emile]

42. Good reminder SheltieLover!