Posted by: Sandy Steinman | December 13, 2014

Backyard Birding, Feeding & Safety

Feeding Birds in winter is a great help when food is scare. Also attracting birds to your backyard can enhance birdwatching from your windows.

A couple of weeks ago we spent two hours at our kitchen windows and counted 25 different species of birds in our backyard in the Berkeley, CA flatlands. We do feed birds but don’t use a feeder. We spread seed on the ground and a table. We also have lots of vegetation for birds to perch on and hide in.

Read article on safe bird feeding from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at Citizen Science Blog » Dos and Don’ts of Feeder Placement.

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