We are very lucky we have so little snow with this cold snap we had this last week. I throw out a little grain when things get rough for the birds. Took a picture of a few that found it. 100's of birds driving in all in fields looking for something to eat.

I always added cheap bird seed (millet) to my grain to act like grit for digestion.

You must not have many raptors out there....they wouldt stand a chance around here. I loved it years ago when you could still find enough to hunt.

I like throwing carcasses in the crick beside my house. Winter is hard on birds.

I put some alfalfa out for the deer, they're out during daylight now so you know they're hungry.

I always feel bad for all wildlife. Some years 2 to 3 feet of snow and holes all over in snow for then and big game to get to something to eat. Really sad some years.

I wish we could feed the critters here. I'm in a cwd zone so it's illegal. I used to really enjoy watching the deer all winter.

Same here! I would sit staring out the window for hours watching them. I think 23 is the most I had in the yard at one time. It made it easy to find sheds too.

We plant food plots that provide winter groceries for the deer. Depending on yield, we also put out mixed grain for the deer. We feed the birds too.

Food plots for deer and corn feeders.

I have been throwing some scratch out for the birds when I check on the chickens

Best thing to feed deer here in the winter is a chainsaw, put that browse down to eye level, they will find it.

I second that comment on the birds of prey, very rare to get pheasants to over winter here with all the eyes in the sky, easy to find remains here, tough to find birds.

You can interfere but Mother Nature is tough to beat, when it comes to balance. Fierce competition with polar air, deep snow, floods, drought, predators, disease….,

One of the first things I do every morning is feed the birds as soon as it starts getting day light. It's a cheap mix that I add extra sunflowers, sunflower hearts, peanut splits and raisins too. Suet blocks for the woodpeckers plus I started taking a block and rubbing it on the bark of this big oak tree that's right in front of my shop. A bunch of different birds clean that up real fast. We just put up a big deer feeder that's on a self timer plus I'm throwing extra ear corn up there for them. My bluebirds have there own feeder that gets dried mealworms in it. We feed all year and get great enjoyment watching them. This deep snow is really making it hard on them. The only bird I really don't like is those darn grackles. There just bullies plus there ugly. And yes, our neighbor hood halk comes in once in awhile.

I have two oriental pear trees that have little fruit balls and have a flock of robins that come now every day. Did not even know there were robins around until now......jk

My daughters dog found a dead, froze pheasant yesterday. I have had times when I had up to 30 pheasants coming in and I gave them a five gallon bucket of mixed grain on the drive way every morning. By spring thaw it would be down to less then five. Every storm there would be a few less. We do not have hawks here in the winter. The great horned owls and snowy owls are hard on them here.

Do any of you add animal fat as feed aka beaver fleshing?

This year we boned out my deer, my son in law's and granddaughter's deer. We save the trimmings that aren't edible such as fat, blood shot meat, and etc. I put them in a wire basket for the birds. They love it. Plus, I have two seed bird feeders, one with sunflower seeds, the other with mixed feed. It seems you never get all the meat off the bones especially the neck. So, I hang the bones in a tree until they are picked clean.

Heading out for a few bags of scratch grains a millet seed for grit soon you need to know what your buying one place has better quality mix the other puts in cracked corn as filler then charges like it good stuff.

Stocked pheasants never survive here. The exception is the one who finds a grain bin, might last a bit longer. They are free predator food, pretty expensive program to feed the predators.

They haven't gotten them all here but this guy is surely gotta be lonely...