Once again forgot to sign off on the previous post; apologies for double post.

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!

A. Kopitov
Seattle, WA