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Project Wildbird
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Posted 5 months ago For those who would like to start feeding the birds, but may not be able to/want to go out and buy feeders, I'd like to recomend Project Wildbird. It's a study going on out of a University in Illinois for bird feeding. They send you 4 feeders, poles, squirrel baffles, and around 200 pounds of assorted feed. THERE IS NO COST TO YOU! All they ask in return is that you follow a seed rotation schedule, and every other day you monitor the feeders for 45 minutes and use a printout to tally how many of what bird came to which feeder. I've been doing this for a year, and and just signed on for a new round. They even sent me different feeders! (Oh . BTW.........you get to keep everything at the end of the study.) If anyone is interested, just go to www.projectwildbird.org . |
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| Posted 5 months ago Heck my cats watch our birdfeeder for several hours a day! Thanks for the tip! Edward T. Cook |
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| Posted 5 months ago We're not so "high tech." We just go to the local seed & feed and buy 50 pounds of black oil sunflower seeds and 50 pounds of Purina's Regional Receipe and mix the two. Then we just pour it out onto benches on our porch or into old flower pot saucers about once a day. |
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| Posted 5 months ago That's the easiest way to do it. I'll agree with you there. But being the greedy thing I am (lol!) I love the fact that they send me, totally free, about $200 worth of bird feeders and poles. Not to mention free seed, in 10 varieties, which I end up mixing in a 46 gal. trash can when I dump the feeders. They also just asked me if I'd like to do a second year, so I said yes. They sent me a different type of feeder, as well as new poles and squirrel baffles. I was glad to do the second year, as it has had wonderful benefits for my husband, who is an artist with multiple health problems. This lets me get the birds into the best view for him. |