How to feed the birds

To get rid of these uninvited guests, the feeder is transferred to another garden, park or grove, where there are bird watching, but where there are no sparrows or where they have not managed to visit about Darovoe refreshments. Promptov recommends ward off unwanted guests in this way. Above the trough tied a long rope (twine). The other end of its stretch in the hidden place, where sits the observer. As soon as the sparrow, the observer pulls the rope and flushes it. Observations of the feeders can give a lot to anyone who wants to learn how to behave in a bird, what are the relations between different kinds of them in the same flock. These observations will also help to understand what food prefer one or the other bird. Almost all of our wintering birds, even insectivores like woodpeckers and tits in winter and reluctant to eat the seeds. However, winter forage still quite diverse. Different groups of birds looking for differing feed. That is why it is very interesting to make a few tables of food (and troughs). You can sprinkle on some hard food (oats, hemp, millet, rye, flaxseed, etc.), on the other - wild berries and fruits (rowan, juniper berries, honeysuckle, barberry, cranberry, cranberries, rose hips). On the third - to put or hang the entire compound fruit of various plants: spruce and pine cones, heads heather, thistles, sunflowers hats and other Compositae, Umbelliferae fruits and finally, especially for tits good procure more from the autumn of dried insects, ants' eggs, pupae flies, cockroaches, etc. You can also sprinkle on the table bread crumbs or finely meat. For tits prepare a mixture of different seeds, crumbs of bread, meat, scalded with boiling water beetles, etc. This mixture is immersed in the molten fat and smeared it bundles twigs. When the mixture hardens and nalipnet, the beams are tied to a stick stuck in the snow, or to the branches of shrubs and trees. Fat for tits - great delicacy, but with such a mixture in half. Each of the tables indicate some number in the log observation notes on what is preferred feed those or other birds. Note, in what weather more birds visited the feeder, what time of day, whether the same behavior at the beginning and end of winter, etc. The winter feeding can be of great economic importance, if it is conducted properly and in sufficient amounts. It not only attracts birds to the site where performed, but also helps them survive the difficult times of the year. We must remember here that even granivorous birds during the fledging destroy many insects and so help to control pests.