How to Help Birds Survive Cold Weather in the New Year!
Typically, our feeders serve as a supplemental food source for birds. However, during periods of cold or severe winter weather, your birds may switch to utilizing your feeders as a critical source of food that enables them to survive from day to day. So make sure your foods are worth their weight with quality high-calorie, fatty foods for the birds.
You can play a vital role, as feeding the birds becomes critical when extremely cold conditions occur. At these times, a reliable supply of energy-heavy food can mean the difference between life and death for a bird. To stay warm, birds will expend energy very quickly, some losing up to 10% of their body weight on extremely cold nights. Food is the most essential element, providing birds with the energy, stamina and nutrition they need. An ample supply of high-calorie foods such as suet, Bark Butter, SuperWinter Blend and more is crucial to a bird’s survival.
- Suet as well as Jim’s Birdacious Bark Butter® is full of essential fat and protein helping birds, such as woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches, titmice, wrens and others, maintain their high metabolic rate.
- Nyjer and Finch Blend are high in fat and protein, and they are a favorite of goldfinches, Pine Siskin and Purple and House Finches.
- Our SuperWinter Blend is loaded with high-quality fats and protein, benefiting all our feeder-feeding and ground-feeding birds.
- Bird food cylinders are a win-win for you and your birds. Cylinders, like No-Mess and Nutty for Nuts, are long-lasting allowing you fewer trips to fill the feeder. They are packed with high-calorie peanut, tree nut and sunflower energy to help the birds stay warmer. There are no shells, providing a quick energy snack for birds and no mess for you.
Help your birds know your food is worth the weight by locating your foundational feeder in a sheltered location out of the wind and keep it full of the high-calorie, fatty foods that provide birds the crucial nutrition they need to survive and thrive even during the coldest times of the year.
Give Birds a Super Winter with SUPERWinter Blend
Our Winter SuperBlend® is a super high-fat seed blend, specifically formulated to provide birds the essential energy and fats needed to survive whatever winter throws at them.
Stop by our store for more expert advice and quality foods that are worth the weight to help your birds thrive this winter. SHOP ONLINE order.wbu.com/traversecity
There is a reason you don’t see birds at the gym trying to lose that holiday weight. They want fat! Learn how birds use fat and other strategies to survive long, cold winter nights. Click here to listen to the episode.