Feeding the Farm Birds

Posted: 13th December 2018

Last job of the day as the darkness approaches all too quickly. The third year of a two farm experiment on the effects of supplementary winter feeding of farmland birds. In addition to feeders in the trees, seed at the rate of 10kg a day is scattered in the bird food plot which at the moment is still being visited by birds feeding from seed on the plants. This source will be exhausted within weeks when the scattered seed should provide welcome support to the Honeydale feathered visitors and residents, hopefully taking them into the breeding season in tip top condition.