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August 27, 2008
These active, agile little birds dine primarily on insects, seeds and berries. The constantly active chickadee will hop around and cling to twigs, branches and foliage, gleaning huge quantities of insect eggs and larvae. How much better bug control than using insecticides!
Chickadees also enjoy a variety of seeds and berries. Seeds and nuts of pine, hemlock, birch, walnut, ragweed and sunflower are all important natural vegetable food. They especially love black oil sunflower seed presented at your bird feeders. They typically take one seed from the birdfeeder, fly away and perch nearby to eat it. Chickadees will visit your bird feeders one at a time, while the others wait nearby for their turn. They also enjoy peanut kernels, peanut butter mixes, hulled sunflower seeds and suet. Offer plenty of suet, a high energy food, which can help support their constant motion. Place suet feeders near the trunk of a tree. Smear peanut butter onto tree trunks and branches.
The chickadees will be a frequent visitor to your bird feeders in the winter. Fill your tube bird feeders or your window bird feeders with black oil sunflower seed or peanut kernels. Platform bird feeders are great for fresh or dried blueberries and various other berries.
As with all wildlife, water is an absolute necessity so have at least one bird bath for drinking and bathing. Heated bird baths are especially important for birds like the chickadees who keep you company all winter and give you special dreary day enjoyment.
Just think how hard they work to stay alive in the cold winter weather so let’s give them all the help we can and they will reward us by appearing as little puff balls at our bird feeders to brighten our days.
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