Nature Done Wright

Photo by Alice Leurck

Don Torino's latest column is about how birds feed themselves in winter. Here's the beginning:

As we speak, I am going through bags of birdseed so fast I might need to take out a loan to keep my feeders full.

Since the severe cold and snow recently engulfed New Jersey, my backyard birds seem like they are eating nowhere else but at my feeders all day long 7 days a week. No sooner do I fill them up they are empty again.

… But things in the backyard may not be entirely as they seem.

Ornithologists tell us that birds only get about 10 to 20% of their food at our backyard bird feeders. So what else could they be eating out there, especially where there are no feeders to be found?

The link is here.