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By CRAIG TUFTS
Natkwal Wildlife Federation
Early fall is time to re-evaluate the placement of your birdfeeders. A feeder’s location should be convenient and highly visible for you and safe and secure for the birds.
All of us eiyoy the antics of small seed-eating winter visitors. Goldfinches, the “red” finches, chickadees and nuthatches respond to polemounted tubular or round plastic feeders filled with sunflower seed. Place these feeders at least four feet from the ground. Dense shrubs or small trees nearby offer perches as birds visit the feeder. Chickadees and nuthatches need tree limbs nearby against which they can hull sunflower seed.
More birds seek out suet in winter than any other single type of food. Place it in plastic-coated wiremesh holders. Hang these from tree limbs or mount them against a dead tree’s trunk. Suet feeders placed on healthy tree trunks invite the rapid invasion of tree-damaging insects and fungi. Don’t place suet too close to a window unless you eryoy washing windows. Birds flick suet pieces off their bills, making a greasy mess of the glass.
The best type of feeder for attracting ground feeders, birds that feed in groups - or squirrels, is a simple feeding table. Place this feeder on a pole 12-18 inches from the ground. Cat-concealing cover should be at least ten feet away. Good quality mixed bird seed consisting of proso millets, sunflower and perhaps a bit of cracked corn, hulled sunflower and peanut pieces will
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