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Heyseed

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OK question for you bird watchers, as soon as I plow my road the birds will fly down and peck at the bare ground. What are they after? it is too cold for any insects. I see it every time.
 
Small pieces of gravel to fill their crops. Small stones are ground together with foodstuffs to prepare for digestion in the stomach.
 
Grit is part of it but they are damn hungry. Put out a couple of feeder stations for them! Sunflower seed goes over really well around my yard. They eat every seed they can get!
 
Maybe the birds are just looking for a place to land where they aren't up to their butts in snow?

For some reason, the blackbirds are often pecking in the neighbors yard but stay out of our yard. Maybe they have a better grade of crushed granite?
 
Thanks for the comments, it must be some food, I know they need grit but I have watched and the same birds stay pecking for a long time. I do feed them at the house and get the whole range of winter birds. I used to buy the expensive food but now use chicken scratch from Southern States.
Only $14 for 50#bag and I get everything from chickadees to Wild Turkeys
 
Minerals. Those things that are deficient in their diets, especially come winter. Was a time we all thought they ground their food with it and I am not here to start an argument...but trace minerals are the issue. The kids do not always keep the grit topped off when they feed and I will go out there and mix some up. Birds will walk by their grain in favor of the minerals mix. I blend my own from granite, oyster shell and mix in loose minerals without salt. Needs to be moistened. Usually gone in a day or two.
 
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