During the winter period it is very difficult to birds to get to itself a high-calorific and fat forage therefore the person needs to help birds to survive at this time.
If you often go on the nature to your house in the country or a country house, it is necessary to check that the forage for birds was constantly spread out in a garden. Ready-made winter feeds for birds can be bought in special garden shops or to prepare independently.
There is a set of products which will help birds to worry winter.
- Special high-calorie mixes which seeds and nuts enter.
- More expensive mixes with insects and worms.
- Sunflower with the kept-up sunflower seeds, in them high content of fat.
- Fresh fruit or waste from them.
- Lard or visceral fat.
- Potatoes in any kind with fat addition.
- Culinary products or dough – cookies, buns, bread, cakes which have the high content of fat.
- Various grain in finished form – buckwheat, pearl barley, rice, a pshenka, porridge and bean (haricot and lentils) and also various cereals.
If you have a large number of time, it is possible to make special winter pie to help birds to worry winter. The main ingredient of this dish is fat. In a frying pan add the sunflower sunflower seeds, nuts which are previously peeled, various dried fruits, oat flakes and cheese to the kindled fat. Pie proportions following: it has to consist on 1/3 of fat or fat and on their 2/3 dry components. The received pie has to stiffen. After that, the treat is displayed in a garden or put in a birds feeder. If in your garden the special table for birds is put, the treat should be laid out on it.
The excellent method of placement of winter pie is to fill with it cracks in trunks of trees in your country garden, to evenly apply it on the rough surface of bark. Such option of feeding is suitable for the birds preferring to receive a forage on trees. For birds who collect a forage on the earth such as thrushes, it is the best of all to spread out bird's pie under a fence in a garden where they often try to find to themselves food for livelihood. The feeding trough should be placed so that birds had the good review of the surrounding area. So they will be able quicker to react to possible danger (for example, approach of a bird of prey, cat, fox and many others) and in time to depart. It should be noted that an integral part of food of birds is availability of fresh water therefore it is necessary to watch its quantity constantly. Especially this factor is solving in regions where snow almost does not drop out.