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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jan 21, 2022 10:42:47 GMT -6
I enjoy seeing birds in Winter, so I built a simple bird feeder from old pallet lumber and a couple short pieces of shelving material. I mounted it on top of a treated 4x4 by use of a lag bolt and washer, so that I can spin it to shelter the feed inside from the wind, rain, and snow. It holds about 4 gallons of sunflower seeds, so i don't have to restock it very often.
Over the years, I've noticed that our birds don't really eat bird seed very well. They just pick through it and take what they like and leave the rest of it to mold and mildew, causing a lot of waste. However, when I use only black oil sunflower seed, they eat every scrap of it, leaving nothing but empty shells behind. I end up feeding about 100 pounds of sunflower seeds per winter. I always put sunflower seeds on my Christmas wish list and enjoy it all Winter long!
This morning, I've seen gold finches, red finches, chickadees, cardinals, nuthatches, titmice, and snow birds.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2022 21:10:27 GMT -6
BOSS is easy to grow. Requires real estate tho.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Jan 23, 2022 12:58:58 GMT -6
When I attempt to grow my own black oil sunflower seeds, the birds always eat them before harvest. I guess that's all good though, they need feed in summer too.
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