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As the Garden Winds Down, It’s Time to Care for Winter-Prepping Birds
Suburban gardeners provide high-energy food and shelter to help migrating and non-migratory birds survive winter scarcity, supporting local bird populations through the season.
- Soon, Jessica Damiano cleaned and refilled birdfeeders in her suburban New York garden to help migrating backyard birds fuel up and will keep feeders stocked for non-migratory birds through winter.
- As the garden slows, late-season asters, coneflowers, black-eyed Susans, goldenrods and ornamental grasses dry but provide seeds, while leaving spent perennials and fallen leaves shelters insects and supports ground-feeding birds.
- Choose high-fat, high-protein feeds like unsalted peanuts, black-oil sunflower seeds and suet, and prepare nectar recipe by dissolving 1 cup sugar in 4 cups boiling water for migrating hummingbirds.
- Providing winter sustenance results in birds surviving winter and rewarding gardeners with birdsong and snow-covered seedheads, enhancing spring pest-control services.
- Disconnect solar-powered landscape lighting and keep porch lights off for the next couple of months to avoid disorienting migratory birds; early fall plantings of shrubs and perennials offer future food and shelter.
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As the garden winds down, it’s time to care for winter-prepping birds
By JESSICA DAMIANO I just cleaned out and filled a couple of birdfeeders to help my migrating backyard buddies fuel up for their long journeys south. And I’ll keep it well-stocked with high-energy seed mix throughout winter to feed the non-migratory birds that tough it out until spring in my suburban New York garden. After all, it’s now, when the garden is slowing down, that birds need us the most. Providing sustenance is one of several ways tha…
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As the garden winds down, it's time to care for winter-prepping birds
When fall descends and the garden slows down, birds could use some extra help. That's true whether they're migrating south or roughing out northern winters.
·United States
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