Lovely to watch them all eating peacefully together in the snow. Spreading the food out over a large area like you do is the best way to feed birds. Your winter videos are so sweet. I really do enjoy them. 🥰 Take care and have a good week. ☃️🌲♥️🌲☃️
I agreed that spreading out the food is the best way to do it. I used to use a platform feeder up on the feeder pole but it just got too crowded. I worried about their health. Plus, some birds just sat there and hogged the feeder. I’ve learned so much by watching the birds on film over the years. Just like with the bird baths, they all have their preferences about what they like to eat and where. Thanks for watching and have a good week!
Once again another beautiful video with the bush setting and the birds in the snow, just perfect, it makes me feel so cool as we are going through our summer in Australia,I did not know birds liked suet.... Thank you for sharing your day with us.
Suet’s a good high energy cold weather food for the birds. You can get it in blocks mixed with seed for the birds here in the US. Not sure if you have similar in Australia. Thanks for watching! I could use a little of your warmth weather here right now 🙂
Thank you for caring for and feeding these sweet creatures. Your help may be what is keeping them alive through bad weather. They all look so colorful against the bleak, bare trees and white snow. Our reward for your diligence is being able to enjoy them from the warm comfort of our homes. You are truly a kind person.
Yeah, spreading some suet on tree trunks is a super easy way to provide a little treat for them, and cuts down on the crowding and competition at the feeder. Makes for some nice photo opportunities too. Thanks for watching!
Lovely video! 💖 There seems to be a Tufted titmouse who loves to position himself right in front of your camera, and even flew to the stream. He likes to be on camera.
The Tufted Titmice are always the stars of the videos - or at least they think so 😄 There are at least ten of them here these days, so I don’t know if one of them is the camera hog or if it’s a group effort. It’s a good thing they’re cute 🙂
@@WarblerRidge Indeed they are cute. There are many in this area too, and are early birds at feeders. Your video had one Cardinal that I saw in the background, watching all the other birds. Keeping track, watching for unruly behavior.
Really surprised the titmouse would go in the water for a bath! Wouldn't it freeze their feathers? Do you ever get mobbed by starlings, cowbirds, red winged blackbirds? They can just take over feeders in winter.
The birds seem to know when it’s safe to go in the water. The temperature was below freezing for a few days here and lots of birds came to the stream to drink but they didn’t get into the water. Then, Saturday afternoon it got up to right around 34 degrees and I saw several birds bathing. I occasionally get big flocks of grackles here in the winter, but not other blackbirds. I think my property is too wooded for them. I was getting quite a few cowbirds at the feeders during the summer, so I’ve cut back on providing seed during the summer months and that’s helped a lot. The birds don’t really need the supplemental food during the summer and I started getting more nesting warblers once there were fewer cowbirds around. Also, when I do put out food, I make sure there’s no corn in the mix.
I love the Junco too. It’s funny how a good snow always brings them around. You should definitely try the suet log. So easy, and the birds will enjoy it.
We got about an inch and a half of snow, and made sure the birds had extra food too. Couldn't keep the birdbath unfrozen though! It's too far away for a wired heater and a solar heater would've gotten covered over pretty quickly. But there's a stream and a pond nearby that didn't freeze. What's the little brown and white bird on the left at around 9:00? We had some show up with the snow but haven't seen them before.
That’s a female Purple Finch. Have you seen any of the males? My regular bird baths freeze over too. I was kind of surprised that the stream kept flowing since the temps stayed below freezing for a couple days. Thanks for keeping the birds fed! I’m sure they appreciated it
Interestingly, I haven't seen any of the males at all! They are definitely in my area though, so maybe the guys like somebody else's feeder selection better.
I always have called juncos snow birds because they came 1 or 2 weeks before the snow. This year was different. Maybe they were caught off guard. They showed up during the first snow storm. They stay during winter months, raise the young and then leave.
Lovely to watch them all eating peacefully together in the snow. Spreading the food out over a large area like you do is the best way to feed birds.
Your winter videos are so sweet. I really do enjoy them. 🥰
Take care and have a good week.
☃️🌲♥️🌲☃️
I agreed that spreading out the food is the best way to do it. I used to use a platform feeder up on the feeder pole but it just got too crowded. I worried about their health. Plus, some birds just sat there and hogged the feeder. I’ve learned so much by watching the birds on film over the years. Just like with the bird baths, they all have their preferences about what they like to eat and where. Thanks for watching and have a good week!
I love seeing the little birds coming out to feast. Sweet chirps...
Makes me smile to see them all emerging out of the woods when I put the food out. Thanks for watching! (The kitty in your icon pic is so cute!)
@@WarblerRidge Thanks. I love it, too.
Oh, my! Your videos are never long enough! 😄I'll just re-watch and finish my coffee. Love this channel! Thank you!
Aww, thanks for watching! and rewatching 😄
Once again another beautiful video with the bush setting and the birds in the snow, just perfect, it makes me feel so cool as we are going through our summer in Australia,I did not know birds liked suet.... Thank you for sharing your day with us.
Suet’s a good high energy cold weather food for the birds. You can get it in blocks mixed with seed for the birds here in the US. Not sure if you have similar in Australia. Thanks for watching! I could use a little of your warmth weather here right now 🙂
Thank you for caring for and feeding these sweet creatures. Your help may be what is keeping them alive through bad weather. They all look so colorful against the bleak, bare trees and white snow. Our reward for your diligence is being able to enjoy them from the warm comfort of our homes. You are truly a kind person.
They do bring a lot of life to the winter landscape. Thank you for your kind words!
Suet on the tree - BRILLIANT! Thank you for the care and love you give to your extended family.
Yeah, spreading some suet on tree trunks is a super easy way to provide a little treat for them, and cuts down on the crowding and competition at the feeder. Makes for some nice photo opportunities too. Thanks for watching!
I really liked this one. My cat Wrigley of all my cat's, loved this one more than the cat video's he watches.
Thumbs up and paws up? 😄 Excellent! Thanks for watching and tell Wrigley the birds say hi.
Thank you 🕊️🐤🐦⬛🐧🤗
Thanks for watching!
🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐦⬛🐧🐧🐧🕷 very Very good like 👍🤩
Thank you very much!
Delightful!!!
Thanks for watching!
Lovely video! 💖 There seems to be a Tufted titmouse who loves to position himself right in front of your camera, and even flew to the stream. He likes to be on camera.
The Tufted Titmice are always the stars of the videos - or at least they think so 😄 There are at least ten of them here these days, so I don’t know if one of them is the camera hog or if it’s a group effort. It’s a good thing they’re cute 🙂
@@WarblerRidge Indeed they are cute. There are many in this area too, and are early birds at feeders. Your video had one Cardinal that I saw in the background, watching all the other birds. Keeping track, watching for unruly behavior.
Really surprised the titmouse would go in the water for a bath! Wouldn't it freeze their feathers? Do you ever get mobbed by starlings, cowbirds, red winged blackbirds? They can just take over feeders in winter.
The birds seem to know when it’s safe to go in the water. The temperature was below freezing for a few days here and lots of birds came to the stream to drink but they didn’t get into the water. Then, Saturday afternoon it got up to right around 34 degrees and I saw several birds bathing. I occasionally get big flocks of grackles here in the winter, but not other blackbirds. I think my property is too wooded for them. I was getting quite a few cowbirds at the feeders during the summer, so I’ve cut back on providing seed during the summer months and that’s helped a lot. The birds don’t really need the supplemental food during the summer and I started getting more nesting warblers once there were fewer cowbirds around. Also, when I do put out food, I make sure there’s no corn in the mix.
The snow brought the Juncos to my yard, I just love them! I’m going to steal your suet log idea 😬
I love the Junco too. It’s funny how a good snow always brings them around. You should definitely try the suet log. So easy, and the birds will enjoy it.
Getting some great ideas for starting up - a birding safe haven zone here in Cincinnati, OH.
Oh! Sounds like a great project!
We got about an inch and a half of snow, and made sure the birds had extra food too. Couldn't keep the birdbath unfrozen though! It's too far away for a wired heater and a solar heater would've gotten covered over pretty quickly. But there's a stream and a pond nearby that didn't freeze.
What's the little brown and white bird on the left at around 9:00? We had some show up with the snow but haven't seen them before.
That’s a female Purple Finch. Have you seen any of the males? My regular bird baths freeze over too. I was kind of surprised that the stream kept flowing since the temps stayed below freezing for a couple days. Thanks for keeping the birds fed! I’m sure they appreciated it
Interestingly, I haven't seen any of the males at all! They are definitely in my area though, so maybe the guys like somebody else's feeder selection better.
I always have called juncos snow birds because they came 1 or 2 weeks before the snow. This year was different. Maybe they were caught off guard. They showed up during the first snow storm.
They stay during winter months, raise the young and then leave.
I had a few show up weeks ago but there were about 20 out there in this snow. They’re great little birds. Really enjoy seeing them.