Seniors? Do you feed wild birds during winter/ all year?

This winter I have many visitors coming up to both feeders. There are 4 Red Cardinals, their mates and all the babies. Snow birds,chickadees,Titmouse,and pigeons. Three Partridges or Grouse and many, many I have yet to identify from my books. Then there are also three or four different kinds of WoodPeckers and two very large,very black and silver birds. They share the seed but love the suet cakes beter of course. With all of this, I have about 8 squirrels that try to share in the bounty. Wonderful fun. Thank you for asking today about our fine feathered friends. The summer of course brings the Hummingbirds. I have six that visit daily, and every couple of hours. I planted all their favorites and hang the nectar for them to enjoy.

Yes we feed the fauna.

Our bird feeder is set jutting out from a metal sculpture I made. The problem is that squirrels (Bushy tail tree rats) can climb the sculpture and then reach the bird feeder. They can empty it within an hour or 2. The seeds spill onto the ground and the birds will try and feed, but if the squirrels are around they chase the birds away.

When the birds can feed without being disturbed by the tree rats, we will see: Sparrows, Blue Jays, Mourning Doves, Cardinals, Black birds and others.

We also feed a feral cat and whatever else roams around our house at night time. Last year we were feeding a raccoon and she lived in our chimney! She had 5 babies that we had to have a professional animal remover take out. He let the mom and her 5 babies loose in some woods in the country.

Yes, I do. It is one of those thing that started as a lark ( no pun intended) and then you figure, well it's fall and I started feeding them so now I have to keep doing it through the winter.

Then it just goes on from there. Starting to cost about 25 bucks a week since I also have to feed the squirrels who steal from the bird feeders.

In the last year, my feeding activities have made the hawks come around waiting for their meal of squirrel or small bird. Cats take their toll also. My wife is a sucker for any and all animals so I guess I am stuck with it for now.

I do too. I have a goldfinch feeder outside my kitchen window. I also have a platform feeder on my deck, and two hanging feeders just off my deck outside the kitchen/deck door. I get nuthatches, cardinals, hairy and downy woodpeckers (I have suet cakes), flickers, chickadees, juncos, goldfinches and mourning doves. I took my feeders down last spring because I got all the grackles and starlings making a mess and chasing all the other birds away. I also have a hawk that has killed a couple of the doves over the winter. It took me a little while to figure out what took the first one, until I realized that the feather prints in the snow were from the hawk taking off. I just saw the hawk for the first time yesterday. I haven't identified it yet, but I know it's not a red-tailed.

I want to try to feed more birds this spring and summer. I'm going to try to put out orange halves to attract orioles. I just don't know what to do about the grackles and starlings.

I think I'll have to get a feeder,we just throw bread out back and the only birds that bother are Magpies.

We have some lodges within a few minutes walk and It's lovely to go down there and feed the Geese.Swans.Coots etc

seniors feed wild birds winter year

Where I live, I have hundreds and hundreds of ravens. We have red-tailed hawks fly over every once and awhile, but the ravens swarm them and chase them away. I have a great horned owl that visits nightly. I have a couple of Greater Roadrunners that I am always happy to see as they eat rattlesnakes.

The only little birds that I ever see are the house finches who are actively building their annual nest on my porch light as we speak.

Living in the country, I DO NOT feed the birds. We have enough of a problem with the rodent population. I refuse to poison because of the residual effect on the birds.

I am a casual birdwatcher and Audubon member.

I feed birds all year. Hummingbirds only in warm weather, but I read that some of the hummingbirds don't always leave and still need food. So now I fill a feeder for them too but have not seen any and the feeder is still full, but you never know. Poppy

I have a bird feeder hanging outside my kitchen window and love watching them while I'm cooking and cleaning up. I feed the birds all winter and also feed one big fat squirrel who cleans out my bird feeder. That darn squirrel is as big as a house cat and not the least bit afraid of me! I raise my window and yell at him but he only stares back at me. Most of the birds I feed are sparrows and finches but lately I've seen some robins, wild doves and cardinals. A huge blue jay showed up last week but the little sparrows went to war with him and soon ran him off.

Yes, definitely. My father always wore tailored slacks with a belt, and a business-type shirt. Even after he had a leg amputated at 86, he tried to wear those darned slacks despite having a prosthetic leg to deal with. I bought him a pair of soft track pants and he was horrified at the idea - far too casual, he insisted ! I finally got him to try them on....and he was hooked ! Wore soft track pants every day for the last year of his life. Thank heavens for that. My mother was the same - always wore the full outfit of a "proper" dress and maybe a knitted matching cardigan, stockings and shoes always. Right up until she died at 89, she never agreed to try anything casual. I live in jeans / leggings and tee-shirts or knit tops. The only time I've worn a dress in the last few years, have been at my daughter's wedding and his son's wedding last week. I like them, but who could be bothered. I had to spend about $100 on lingerie to go under that dress last week - pretty, but oh so many layers ! Going to the bathroom was a huge undertaking !