Jeff wrote:
>Maybe because in late summer and fall, food is in abundance. May perennials >and grasses are seeding vigorously, and insects are still abundant. Thus, >birds don't have to forage as frequently at feeders because natural food is >in abundance. Hence the term, autumn bounty.

As I re-landscape my five acres, I have been working towards this--trying
to get things planted, so that there is natural food available here for
the birds all year round. Even though I still have feeders, the birds
are not dependent enough on them to find other troughs when I am on
vacation. The same birds stop here when migrating spring and fall and
nest here each summer whether we are here to feed them or not. Well,
the same species anyway!

Darlene
Cinebar