RE: cold weather feeder tips

During last winter's cold spell, I took a trip to Home Depot to buy pipe insulators for my feeders (the thick foamy type that wraps around pipes). The very helpful HD employee suggested I wrap the feeder in bubble wrap to insulate it as they were sold out of the pipe insulators. I wrapped bubble wrap around two of my feeders and wrapped a third in reflective pipe insulation (thin foily stuff) and bubble wrap. None of my feeders froze. Inexpensive and reusable solution to frozen sugar water and leftover bubble wrap. Note: I tried upping the sugar to water solution too but that alone did not work; the bubble wrap helped considerably.

Happy birding!

Anna