Birds that live in cities and in villages are very useful for natural equilibrium. Pernaya destroy small flying insects that are harmful to a completely all plant. And if the summer feed for birds are these most insects, then in winter, many birds die due to cold and hunger. From the cold of the feathers you can easily be able to unlikely, but from hunger - easy.
What can feed birds in winter?
The list of suitable bird feeds is quite large:
- Sunflower seeds, but not roasted and not salty.
- Pumpkin seeds of small size, too raw and without salt.
- Shop pearl cereal.
- Oats.
- Millet.
- Wheat.
- Raw Flakes "Hercules", but only those that are designed for cooking, and not for blaming.
- Dry crumbs of white bread.
- Crushed raw peanuts.
For bird feed, you can mix all these ingredients and pour into the feeder already prepared mixture. The number in a mixture of croup, seeds and crumbs can be absolutely different - how much you find them in your bins. The least in the stern should be bread crumbs - they can be given to birds only if there is no other feed in the house. If there is only one cereal in the house or one type of seeds, then let's only be the birds.
Very strong frosts of birds will help relive products;
- Non-salt butter.
- Salo fresh and without salt.
These two feed are first freeze, and then tie down a strong thread or place pieces into a grid with small cells. Such a frozen delicacy is suggested on a tree.
Mixed bird food
An excellent option for winter feeding birds will be frozen pork fat balls with splashes in it seeds and cereals. How to make such balls.:
- Pork fat without salt, hold in a warm kitchen so that it becomes plastic.
- Lay out fat from the banks in a bowl and pour it on a mixture of cereals and seeds. Mix everything thoroughly. Mass should be pretty thick, so that you could make balls from it.
- Hands shape balls or fill with a mixture of small silicone molds for cakes.
- Place the blank in the freezer to harden beads.
- Ready balls tie strong thread on all sides and hang them on the branches of trees.
Beads of fat with seeds and cereals would be happy to have a titmouse, sparrows, woodpeckers, nuthatches. Pigeons do not eat food that is on top. They peck at it from the ground, so that the birds zernosmes and dry white bread crumbs sypte directly on the ground.
What absolutely can not feed the birds?
Never feed birds such products:
- Fresh white baked goods. Soft white bread strong swells in the stomach and the bird may die.
- Millet. It causes severe swelling.
- Rye bread. It causes fermentation in the belly of a bird.
- Chips, salted nuts, bacon salt - salt is detrimental to the birds.
- Fried pies, and other such belyashi pastries. Yeast dough in combination with oil lead to the death of birds.
How to arrange a place for feeding birds?
- Feeders only hang on trees. Arranged by the windows in the windows they can scare away birds proximity of people.
- The height of the hanging feeders -. About 1.5 m at a height easily fill the trough.
- Feeders are not located in the thick branches, and on the edge of the crown. Birds should be provided with a free approach to the place of feeding.
- Beads of fat with seeds cereals hang on the tips of thin twigs to them could not get the cats.
- Fresh food poured into the feeder once a day - should not completely take the allowance birds. They should actively move to stay warm, so do not search feed from the trough they will benefit. In very severe and snowy winter you can feed the birds, 2 times a day, but only in the worst weather days.
If you are in the garden or in the nearby park there bullfinches and waxwings, you can prepare for them dried apples or pears. Slices of thread hang on the trees and the birds they would be happy to peck.
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