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Learn how to create two highly effective types of homemade bird feeders to support wild birds in your garden during the cold ...

It takes lots of energy for wild birds to stay warm in winter. You can help by serving up suet for birds, a high-fat food that provides the extra calories they need when temperatures drop. Here's what ...

Birds are scavenging for food sources in the bleak month of February for the extra calories they need to stay warm. Furnishing fat-rich seed in bird feeders is an easy way to provide a source of ...

Less food is available for birds in the colder and darker days of the year, so people are encouraged to provide supplemental food for birds in the winter months. Setting out bird feeders with ...

DEAR HELOISE:I clipped your suet recipe a while back and finally got around to making it last month. The birds devour it. Thank you for the recipe. My birds thank you, too. — Ken Erickson, via e-mail.

Dozens of birds love suet, especially woodpeckers. But backyard bird hosts face a confusing array of packaged suet combos. How to choose? In short, it's not by price. True suet is the fat that ...

A: This is a somewhat controversial topic among those who maintain heated birdbaths in winter. Some would agree with you, feeling that birds will use good sense in choosing whether to bathe on really ...