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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I agree Fred</span>
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As someone said to me "Feeders are for the convience of the watchers
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not the birds"
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Enjoy the summer
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Paul
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<br/>> On July 17, 2017 at 8:40 AM "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca> wrote:
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<br/>> On 7/17/2017 7:08 AM, Paul Mansz wrote:
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<br/>> > young birds are initially fed a diet of insects and spiders, so they are foraging successfully without our help.
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<br/>> * I must say that this business of having feeders up over the summer is
<br/>> new to me. I would caution those who are considering summer feeding with
<br/>> a tale (that I was told as a graduate student) about Horned Lakes in
<br/>> intensively wheat-farmed areas of Kansas: the Larks fed their nestlings
<br/>> on readily available grain rather than Insects, and the young didn't
<br/>> have the digestible protein and other nutrients they needed to grow up.
<br/>> If seed is unnaturally available in the summer, seed-eating birds may
<br/>> well feed their young the grain, and thereby stunt or prevent their
<br/>> development. With or without disease, I think it's imprudent to feed
<br/>> Birds during the summer.
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<br/>> fred. (of course, unless you've got a toddler who will benefit from
<br/>> seeing Birds up close, I also don't think it's proper to feed Birds
<br/>> during the winter, because of the imbalance this creates between
<br/>> migratory/non migratory lifestyles, so feeder advocates can take my
<br/>> advice with as much salt as they feel appropriate).
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<br/>> > Similarly, taking down your feeders simply means the birds will forage over a larger territory. In fact, I think the birds do that anyway, regardless of whether feeders are present. In our yard, for example, the number of birds feeding at our feeders is at its low for the summer -- as is always the case it seems every year. The hummers seem to take a break and are much less frequent at the feeders, and other birds (except for Juncos and Cardinals) are very infrequent.
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