
As temperatures plunge and snowstorms gust across North America, the backyard birds we know and love struggle to find food and shelter to endure the harsh winter elements. We’ve compiled our best resources to help the birds—and help you get the most out of your winter birding. Northern cardinals photo by Bill Thompson, III / Bird Watcher’s Digest
FREE DOWNLOAD: Helping Backyard Birds in Winter
This e-guide is full of useful backyard feeding tips that BWD editor Bill Thompson, III, has learned from experience. When bad weather comes, you’ll be ready to provide your backyard birds with just the kind of helpful hospitality they are seeking. Claim your free guide today!
Winter Bird Feeding Tips
Winter: ’Tis the season for feeding birds all across North America, especially in those regions where it gets mighty cold and snowy. If you are just getting started in bird feeding, or if you are frustrated by a lack of success in attracting winter birds to your feeders, try offering these ten foods.
Top 10 Ways to Help Birds in Bad Weather
We all know that birds can survive without our help in the winter. Some ornithologists have even suggested that bird feeding is more beneficial to us (humans) than it is to the birds. Be that as it may, studies have shown that birds with access to bird feeders in winter survive at a higher rate than birds that don’t.
Top 10 Things to Do in Winter
Just because the days are shorter and the warblers and hummingbirds are gone from our midst (for most of us, that is) doesn’t mean we should put our binoculars, field guides, and bird watching plans in storage for the winter. There are many activities we can enjoy as backyard bird watchers. Check out some suggestions.