I hear birds outside my front door!

[Claudia1]

It's been sub-zero, cold, and snowy for weeks around here. For hundreds of miles around, for that matter. I thought the birds were gone long before Christmas.

Where did they come from?!?!?! Their little feet must be frozen and they must be starved by now! I bet there are over a dozen chattering to each other in the snow.

(They are probably excommunicating their leader/navigator right now. I think I heard one of them say, "We could have been eating popcorn and bits of hot dog buns in the Magic Kingdom by now if he hadn't taken that wrong turn up by Chicago!")

What do you feed birds beside bird seed? (......which I don't have on hand.......)

 

[Wagamama]

there is a couple of birds in our backyard too! I just threw a piece of bread outside for them and their all munching away!

 

[cgcw]

Could it be a sign of spring?? Don't the birds usually know when it's safe to return? I've seen a lot of crows around -- eating the reindeer food we left out a Christmas -- mostly oatmeal. They seem to like it.

 

[hercamore]

Hi

Last week for 3 days, I hard robins in my yard!

At least 3 dozen!

They were eating the dried up apples off my crabapple tree.


It was cool to watch em.


You could put out some peanut butter in a scooped out orange halve.
Break works otoo.

herc.

 

[Sonya]

That's strange, I was just telling DH I heard them outside the window Sat. morning. Is spring here? We are getting snow today.

 

[imgoingtodisney]

We see lots of birds in my forsythia bush outside the front living room windows. There is at least one nest in there.
Think it's safe to put a piece of bread in the branches? Would the mice find it? Ive been so terrified of these mice since we had one in our upstairs bedroom wall (DSs bedroom) a few years ago.