Everything About Feeding Your Pet

Do you love to watch wild birds gather around your window or deck? I really enjoy watching them. Sometimes in the summer they will play in the bird bath in my back yard and in the spring I watch them enjoy my garden. I am not sure what it is but there is something that is just calming and pleasant about watching these birds. Here is a quick and easy recipe for putting together your own bird food that they will love.

Yes, Even Wild Birds Need Food

Wild bird’s diets consist of proteins, grains and fats. Most of the year their diet can be sustained by plants and animals that they can find in their natural habitat or various home gardens. I often see them where I live enjoying the sunflower seed that grow by the road to my house. These sunflowers provide them with a good source of fat and protein.

A good reason for helping out these birds and encouraging them to your yard is that they can be good form of pest and bug control around your house. Typically wild birds will feed on these bugs as they provide them with a ready supply of protein.

This can change drastically for the birds when the winter seasons come along as the food supply provided by insects, bugs and plants diminish quickly due to the cold weather. During these months most birds become extremely inactive. Trying to conserve their energy as the food supply has dwindled.

The few calories that these birds do utilize are used primarily for basic body functions and to keep them warm. One good way to help these birds out during these hard months in return for what they do for you the rest of the year is provide them with a nice supply of wild bird food.

Wild Bird Food Recipe

The main thing that you need to keep in mind when you are making up a batch of wild bird food is that you want to provide them with the right mix of nuts and seeds so that the nutritional needs of the birds will be met. You are not doing them any favors if you simply give them food that won’t help them. There are all kinds of fruits, nuts and seeds that you can add in that will attract different types of birds, but it might be best to start with a general purpose bird food mix and then “fine tune” from there. That way you will give the option to sustain multiple types of birds through the winter.

It is rather simple to whip together a great mix of wild bird food. Simply get all of the ingredients that you are going to use – typically dried fruit in small pieces, oats and sunflower seeds – and mix them together. If you think that your bird friends deserve a little more you can throw in some thistle see, bread crumbs or croutons and even some peanuts in. All of these will be safe for the birds.

One thing that you need to remember, and no I am not joking, is that the presentation of what you offering these wild birds are important. A commercial bird feeder will do fine or you can use a metal pie tin. Some people don’t like the way that these options look around their house so they opt to get creative and serve the bird food on a pine cone coated with peanut butter. However you serve your wild bird food always make sure you leave a source of water to help your birds wash down their food.

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