Hungry Birds

The cold month’ are at full blast, the frost is laying an icy cover over trees, grass and bushes and most of the migrating birds have long gone to warmer places.

A lot of the birds here in Germany stay through the winter though, and they are very thankful if you provide a little snack stop during the winter.

In the fall they have lots of of food available, the berries are still ripe and plentiful on bushes, nuts are falling of the trees and there are still bugs in the air.

We always start setting out our birdhouse a little early to let the birds know where to go to fill an empty stomach. Since the last couple winters have been really cold its important for them to have a place to feed so they can keep their little fat layer to keep them from freezing to death.

Plus there is nothing more fun for kids and cats then sitting in the window and watching them eat the bought or homemade treats. I have to admit I place one birdhouse right by a window … keeps my cats entertained for hours.

So you wonder who will visit and what will they eat?

Let me help you out:

	Blackbirds	fresh apples, wheat, oats and raisins
	Brambling	peeled sunflower seeds and other seeds
	Blue Tit	Fat rings and dumplings, chopped nuts and sunflower seeds
	Chaffinch	Oily seeds like hempseed, chopped peanuts and other nuts
	Spotted Woodpecker	Fatty peanuts and other fat treats, but they need them secured on a tree trunk, since they cant get them if they are hanging of a birdhouse
	Eurasian Jay	same as the woodpecker, a bowl of unsalted peanuts and they are happy
	Eurasian Tree Sparrow	Nuts, dried berries, Raisins and Fat rings
	Eurasian Bullfinch	Oily seeds like hempseed, chopped peanuts and other nuts
	European Greenfinch	Oily seeds like hempseed, chopped peanuts, peeled sunflower seeds and other nuts
	House Sparrow	Nuts, dried berries, Raisins and Fat rings
	Hawfinch	Sunflower seeds
	Eurasian Nuthatch	Lard directly off the tree trunk, cereal flakes, sunflower seeds, seeds and nuts
	Great Tit	Fat rings and dumplings, chopped nuts and sunflower seeds
	Common Wood Pigeon	Fatty oatmeal, nuts and fat rings
	European Robin	chopped nuts, special insect eating bird food (with chopped worms) cereal flakes and oily seeds
	Long-tailed Tit	fatty soft foods, like fat dumplings and rings
	European Goldfinch	Thistle seeds and poppy seeds
	Coal Tit	fatty soft foods, like fat dumplings and rings
	Fieldfare	berries, raisins, fresh apples, fatty soft foods, like fat dumplings and rings
	Eurasian Wren	crushed nuts, poppy seed and other soft  seeds (laid out on the ground)
	Eurasian Siskin	chopped and whole nuts in hanging nets
	Magpie	same as the woodpecker, a bowl of unsalted peanuts and they are happy

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