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Bird Feeding Tips for the Winter Time

If you are a bird lover, like me, you worry about them eating in the Winter time.  During winter months, birds need more calories so that they can burn more energy to stay warm.   The NWF has a list of 10 Simple Tips for Successful Winter Bird Feeding that is very useful.  It speaks about different types of foods that are helpful to birds including seed mixes with black oil, sunflower seeds, hulled peanut and white millet seed. One of the brands of bird feed  that I like is the Kaytee Basic Blend Wild Bird Food  .  It comes in 20 lb. bags that Chewy sells.  It attracts some of my favorite birds, including my sweet cardinal friend that loves to visit my home.  This seed is good all year long and is perfect for feeders, hopper, large-tube and covered fly-through feeders.   You can make suet cakes with these seeds as well.  Suet is a mix of fats, and seeds that birds eat to stay warm.  There is a simp...