Can you help wild birds during a winter storm?

Feeding birds is ok, but allowing them to depend on you as a food source is not good. For the exact reason your asking....you could run out of food or not be there always. Say you take a vaca or get hurt or sick...if they depend on you they will suffer. Birds are wild creatures who are able to adapt to changing food supplies. They will simply find other things....as long as they aren't to dependent on you. Also, feeding to much may create an unnatural balance between bird and food sources. Its the same with a lot of other animals...if you feed and feed and they are always there, more and more will start to show up..and more....and so on. Then when this certain food source runs out they have waaaay to many mouths to feed and not enough food. I hope this helps you and eases your fears about them out in a storm. I think its awesome you want to help..and you can..just not to much.

Try breaking up bread, just don't make a habit of it. Toss it out after it stops snowing or else it will be covered too quickly. All you need is for one or two birds to notice this, and then others will follow. Don't worry about the seed anyway -- they push half of it out of feeder and then it sinks under the snow if they don't get to it fast enough. They'll be fine, they're winter birds used to this weather.

The birds you call are perching birds they are so named because of the fact their feet are waiting to entice close onto branches, intense voltage application wires, tops of fences, and so on. the 1st toe on the foot of a perching chicken is reversed and adversarial to the different feet. Their feet consequently can draw close onto a branch very like a human hand can draw close onto a baseball bat. as quickly as the chicken grasps onto a branch, the load of the chicken will pull on the tendon on the returned of the leg, which in turn will pull the feet jointly, locking the chicken's feet around a branch. even whilst a chicken sleeps, this computerized locking mechanism will shop the chicken from falling off. With this mechanism, a perching chicken can sleep at night on a branch, any branch, up in a tree or bush. That retains them risk-free from floor predators, and likewise risk-free from predatory birds like owls because of the fact owls place self belief in sound to locate their prey in darkness, and a slumbering chicken does no longer make any sound.

They will be fine. Having bird houses will help them too.

They are used to this climate.

Look at this way, if they weren't they would have migrated to the South.

This is what birds do when they sense cold rough weather approaching.

:-)