This Thursday, some folks from the Atlanta Audubon Society will visit us and lead a bird walk around the school. The Bird Club has set up and maintains 3 feeder stations around the campus. In preparation for the LABS bird walk, several of the club members worked with me making suet dough.
We used Julie Zickefoose's Recipe and mixed up enough for several weeks. The kids and I smelled like peanut butter all day!
One of the feeder stations is outside a media center window. I have a hopper feeder and a suet feeder hanging from an Eastern Red Cedar and a small wooden/plastic feeder hanging on the window. We also spread sunflower seeds on the window sill. The bird activity at the feeders is quite an attraction all day as children come in and out of the library media center for lessons or checkout.
The birds come up to the window and are quite bold. We have a brown headed nuthatch that will tap on the window when the seeds in the feeder get too low! This winter's cold spell has brought a good variety of species, including a large flock of pine siskins.
Guys, this sounds like so much fun. I would like to make some bird feeders to hang outside our library windows - but they would blow to pieces very quickly. Our weather has been horrendous the past several days. I hope the Bird Walk was lots of fun. Keep up the good work, Birders!
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