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Post by downylover on Dec 6, 2014 22:59:29 GMT -5
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Post by fredz on Dec 17, 2014 21:52:43 GMT -5
Birds have been getting along just fine without feeders forever. We've only messed up their environment. I think our feeders are a supplement to the natural foods they need to find each day. I fill my feeders once a day and when they are empty the birds must find their own food which is the way it should be. My thoughts are that feeders are for us to enjoy the visitors they bring. The exception would be in an ice storm when the birds have an extremely hard time. Even then in years past they've managed to get by. Their biggest problem is the loss of habitat. No amount of backyard feeding will correct that.
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Post by Calamity Creek Gal on Dec 20, 2014 23:36:38 GMT -5
Totally agree with your post Fred. I have wondered lately about any stats of who feeds birds. I mean is it mainly middle class Anglos? Is it a cultural thing?
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Post by hazelrunmama on Dec 21, 2014 13:45:05 GMT -5
I think it's an addiction thing. LOL I know I do it as much for me as to keep the birds fat and sassy. :-)
btw, Lue--I love your avatar!!
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Post by Calamity Creek Gal on Dec 21, 2014 22:40:13 GMT -5
Thanks HRM - I think the Scaled Quail are my fab here.
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Post by oak181 on Dec 25, 2014 10:32:53 GMT -5
Fred--Glad you are back and I found my way here as well. John
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Post by hazelrunmama on Dec 25, 2014 23:31:26 GMT -5
Hi, John!! Welcome back!  |
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fredz
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Post by fredz on Dec 26, 2014 7:27:06 GMT -5
John glad you're here :}
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Post by oak181 on Dec 27, 2014 11:22:21 GMT -5
I will have to spend some time learning how to use it.
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Post by hutchgigi on Jan 2, 2015 0:50:17 GMT -5
A friend of my husband wanted to ask this crazy bird lady a  ? batchlor living small city out side of Newark NJ. works 12 hr days. He said he had some bread he was gonna throw out to the yard for the birds would this hurt them. I told him if he put some butter on it or bacon fat that would be great. Even peanut butter, to which he laughed and said this is not a restaurant. He only has milk and wheat germ at his house. lol I said throw some wheat germ on the bread after you butter it. You realize this is a one time thing lol. Ginny H. |
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? batchlor living small city out side of Newark NJ. works 12 hr days. He said he had some bread he was gonna throw out to the yard for the birds would this hurt them. I told him if he put some butter on it or bacon fat that would be great. Even peanut butter, to which he laughed and said this is not a restaurant. He only has milk and wheat germ at his house. lol I said throw some wheat germ on the bread after you butter it. You realize this is a one time thing lol. Ginny H. 