Bird Thoughts

Hello again,

Good birding friend Liz Cardinale checks in with some timely reminders:

*If you can, please provide a water source for your feathered friends. Freezing temperatures cause many wild water sources to be frozen over and unavailable. Bird bath deicers are simple and easy to use and also are not a serious electical drain. You merely plug them into an outside electric source and "plop" them into your bird bath. A bird bath deicer runs just enough to keep the water fluid and fluid water is invaluable to the birds right now.

Also, if you can change your water out daily. The water beneficial as it is, can hold disease on occasion (birds tend to use the bird baths as a lavatory) but merely changing the water as often as you can should take care of any problems.

*Now is an awesome time to be feeding your birds suet. Birds need to "lard up" a little for the cold winter ahead and suet is perfect for the job.

*It is very important to keep the bird seed in your feeders dry. Mondays storm could bring quite a bit of snow; get that snow off your feeders and the wet food out as quickly as you can so the bird food does not get moldy. Birds hate wet food and moldy food is not good for anyone!

Thanks Liz; great to hear from you!

Mike Skillin