Carol DM
Over the winter I put out sunflower seeds for the birds. The ground feeders often have a hard time finding food in the winter. Feeding them also gives you a better chance of them returning in the spring to raise their families.
That is precisely what happened in my yard this year. The problem I had was the robins and others ran off the bluebirds.
So now, with summer ending soon, I have to decide if I will feed the birds. Maybe miss out on seeing the bluebirds again. Have not made up my mind yet.
Photo ©CarolDM2018 taken through my patio doors of my deck.
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Do you feed the birds during the winter?
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Yes
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No
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We don’t have much of a winter here, I feed the bird all year through.
I just love the rustic reddish colour of this bird. And the picture looks nice and sunny.
Until now, I kept them … but now I don’t know if I will yet … sparrows eat them all and leave no one besides … they are very greedy and many
The fall has not started here yet, but I have started to put seeds in the feeders
Birds visit my yard year round so they are are fed all year.
Love birds in general, but I do love your bluebirds best of all. Great photo!
Thanks my friend you know I enjoy them as well.
I say let them find it elsewhere Carol. You need the bluebirds!
I may decide to do that Kim. I miss the bluebirds too much.
technically in putting birdseed out I feed the squirrels int he winter. The intent is to feed the birds but, well that doesn’t always happen.
Yes and some birds are attracted I do not want, sparrows.
when you put it that way, you are even more right. We do end up with a lot of sparrows eating the seeds!!!
No winter here but I like feeding birds coz they are cute. I like feeding fishes too when they are in the ocean or lake, not the aquarium types ?
Good to see you. I am ready for winter. Too much heat for too long.
I always use to drop food on roof top for birds
Good gesture but I like to watch the birds.
but father, I want to feed the birds!
Maybe that is what parks are for!
I think it was St. Paul’s cathedral, but…
I do not have to feed them. My garden provides.
Mine does spring and summer but only a few holly berries in the winter.
I am not familiar with that bird but I wonder how you knew that it was male.
The bright red color. The female is a duller more brown color.
Here is the female cardinal:
https://virily.com/virily_poll/female-northern-cardinal/
Unfortunately, every thing has its good and bad sides. Then we have to decide what is best.
You are so right. Choices are what we have to make in life.
We make those choices and hope they are the right ones.
what a nice looking cardinal. Here in Florida of course, it doesn’t matter because birds and squirrels and such can be fed all year round. However, what I liked was that in Latvia where everything was ice and snow in the winter people would hang bits of salted bacon on hooks and hang them outside their windows and the birds that stayed all year would come to peck at it. The salted bacon did not freeze.
Thanks, he was sort of in the shade but still handsome. I love seeing these cardinals in the snow. Never heard that about using salted bacon. Interesting.
Unfortunately, we don’t get this bird where I live. I wish we did though as that is such a lovely looking bird.
Sorry about that. You can enjoy mine! They are stunning.
They are really beautiful in the snow.
I love red cardinal and blue birds. Can’t they live together?
The cardinals are not the problem. It was the robins. They would not allow the bluebirds in the yard.
Cardinals are very elusive birds. They will raise a family and I never know sometimes until I see the baby flying around.
I think you could feed them from your porch or close to your house
However, you need to consider how busy you are, most years I try to feed birds over winter but have been so busy and with some dramas, I could not do it this year.
I did feed them on my deck, in this photo, but because of this, they all returned in the spring to raise families, running out my bluebirds.
Perhaps you can cater for both and have places for both types of birds…but then it gets crowded
Yes I tried and I didn’t have enough room with one acre.
That is not an easy choice. With that being said my husband wants you to have bluebirds – just letting you know! lol
Tell him I want bluebirds as well. I was so depressed this past spring without them. Looks like my decision has been made.