HOW THE BIRDS LIVE.

Taranaki Daily News, 5 July 1930, Page 25 (Supplement)

HOW THE BIRDS LIVE.

When we look over the bare country* side it does not seem to us that there is much food for birds to eat. But the birds see the bare-looking fields and woods with keener eyes than we do. They spy some dried weeds swaying the wintry winds and they know’ that some seeds may still be hidden in them, ft is, indeed, a good thing that all the weed seeds are not scattered far and wide, because many kinds of birds depend on them for their winter food. The trees which look so bare have food for the birds, too. Pine cones are full of seeds which birds enjoy eating. Then there are berries in certain kinds of trees. The birds know just where to find these. The birds are on tlm lookout, too, for any dried ..fruit that may have been left hanging on trees. Certain kinds of birds find their food not on but in trees. They hop up and down the trunks of trees and drill holes into the bark to find the insect larvae o 1 ’ baby worms that live there. But even with all these and other ■places for the birds to get food in winter they often have to go hungry. / By giving them crumbs and other food we can help them to get through the cold, bleak winter.