{"id":115,"date":"2010-01-11T06:32:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T06:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kitchenirons.co.uk\/?p=71"},"modified":"2024-02-28T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T16:35:44","slug":"birds-sos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madebytheforge.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/birds-sos\/","title":{"rendered":"Birds SOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The snow has been on the ground now for over a week and the big news is that song birds suffer in cold winter snaps. Basically they can&#8217;t find insects and they can&#8217;t find food. So we all need to put out extra food for them. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The experts say that a selection of fruit, apples and grapes are great. Seed mixes, fat balls, crusts of bread and \u00a0especially water because in icy conditions because they cant find water to drink. Some small birds only weigh a few grams. A wren typically weighs 5 grams and at night it will fluff up its feathers to keep warm but can still loose up to a quarter of its body weight over night. So rake around your kitchen cupboards, cook some fat balls and find time to feed the birds in your garden. You get the added benefit of watching them from your window.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/madebytheforge.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/starlinginsnow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72\" title=\"StarlingInSnow\" src=\"http:\/\/madebytheforge.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/starlinginsnow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why we need to look after our song bird population in this cold weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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