FEEDING NATIVE BIRDS.
Native birds can be attracted around our homes by artificial feeding, as well as by planting suitable berry-bearing plants. Thus three tuis were successfully supplied with food in the Oamaru district for many weeks by placing a bottle up a tree, and filled with thin honey, in the mouth of which ■a wick of red worsted was inserted. _ A better mixture would be four parts of water to one of sugar by measure, as this is akin to nectar, upon which tuis feed, not honey. The silver eye can be made a regular visitor by feeding with beef suet, and the aphis on one’s roses kept exterminated by the birds at the same time.
All artificial feeding is doubly effective during winter months. Great care should be taken to see no feed is able to
fall on the ground; otherwise one is only feeding cats onbirds, and therefore all food should be placed in a suitablereceptacle well up a tree or thin pole.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 11, 1 October 1926, Page 13
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