Sentences with phrase «at a bird seed»

I work at a bird seed plant in the town of Sidney Nebraska I enjoy my job and when I have down time I like to go for drives and see new places

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But perhaps, if I am patient - if I don't lose hope, if I trust the soil and water it well - the tree will keep growing, and those birds I've been throwing seeds at will find a place to rest instead.

If a bird found birdseed sprinkled on the snow only when a forest ranger passed its way and the ranger came only at night while the bird was asleep, the bird would doubtless attribute the seeds» appearance as «due to» chance.

Winner: Liberty - Yeah sure, you'll scoff at a 16 seed knocking out a No. 1 seed, but the Eagle is the apex bird predator.

Go apple picking Jump in a pile of leaves Make some autumn art Collect colourful fall leaves Collect seeds from plants in the garden Plant bulbs for next spring Make a bird feeder Make leaf prints Make pumpkin playdough Create an Autumn poem Go looking for spider webs Make a nature table with your Autumn finds Bake an apple pie Carve your own pumpkin Make Autumn sun catchers Go on a bat watch at dusk Make toffee apples Set up a scavenger hunt Collect sycamore seeds Grab an umbrella and go singing in the rain Throw a Halloween party Make an autumn wreath for your door Make a bug hotel Listen to the sound of leaves crunching under your feet Collect conkers Collect pinecones Collect twigs Make hot chocolate Draw or paint some autumn still life Attend harvest festival Make apple crisps / chips Remember what you're thankful for Take pictures of all the different colours you can find in a woodland Make leaf rubbings Go stargazing Have an autumn picnic Look for a full moon Go trick or treating Try apple bobbing Make apple sauce Fly a kite Make a windsock Dry orange slices Roast pumpkin seeds Make Halloween biscuits Make a rain catcher Build an indoor fort Collect acorns Donate old woollens and coats to a charity Help clear leaves from the lawn

If there are in fact larger birds in the area you'd like to feed, you can increase the weight at which the seeds are blocked.

It was well - known that bears were dispersing seeds through their scat, Levi said, but it was not known that they were dispersing more seeds than birds, or the relative contribution of brown and black bears to seed dispersal, or whether the two species bears were eating berries at different times of the year.

At the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America held here earlier this week, a researcher offered intriguing evidence suggesting that chilies wield their sting with the precision of a stiletto: to target seed - chewing mammals while leaving birds unscathed.

In the early stages of plant regeneration, plants benefit from the interaction with animals: bees pollinate flowers and maintain gene flow among plant populations, while birds disperse seeds that can establish as seedlings at new locations.

Flushing the digestive tracts of captured birds revealed that two seed generalists, Common Diuca - Finch and Rufous - collared Sparrow, adjusted their diet accordingly and ate more forb seeds at grazed sites, while grass seed specialists Many - colored Chaco Finch and Ringed Warbling - Finch did not.

Luis Marone of the Argentine Arid Zones Research Institute (IADIZA - CONICET) and his colleagues collected soil samples at grazed and ungrazed sites in Argentina's Monte Desert to assess the composition of the seed bank in each area, finding fewer of the large grass seeds that birds prefer in the grazed areas.

That preference works out nicely for the chili plants — because the seeds break down in the rodent gut, but not in the avian gut, birds are better at dispersing the seeds.

Richardson became a firm part of Zeitlin and Tintori's filmmaking collective, going on to co-direct and serve as DoP on the animated short «Seed» with Daniel Bird, which went on to win the animation prize at Slamdance in 2010.

At the time of writing this portion of the business plan, the Bright Bird Press account has $ 759 (rounded down) available to be counted as seed money.

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Seeds pushed into an apple or an orange present a bird with entertainment, challenge, and food, all at the same time.

The fields were seeded with farm - raised pheasants at regular intervals, and each team had a chance to hunt fresh birds.

Many veterinarians can spot a bird on an all - seed diet just by looking at them.

TRILL ® seed mixes are breed specific & are blended from at least five different seeds & whole grains, to provide your bird with the protein & carbohydrates it needs.

If at any step your bird refuses this diet, back up to previous week's ratio of seed to pellets and then resume the transition the next week.

Meijer Black Oil Sunflower Seed was $ 9.99 for 10 lbs., Kaytee Nature's Harvest Wild Bird Food was marked at $ 7.99 for 10 lbs., and Kaytee Wild Bird Peanuts were $ 12.99 for 5 lbs.

Scott Pet Wild Bird Seed is packaged at our facilities in Rockville, Indiana.

Tropimix Egg Food Seed Mix for Budgies, Canaries and Finches is made in Canada at Hagen Industries in Montreal and undergoes rigorous 3 - stage testing, which is unprecedented among bird food makers.

Once you are sure your bird has at least tried the pellets, start to decrease the seed and increase the pellets in small increments until you get to the desired amount of seeds fed.

Look at these blogs, numerous since the Stevenson trial: All this talk of killing, poisoning, calling cats criminals for walking on plants to pooping in gardens, and calling for their deaths... what about birds, pooping on our windshields, on our sidewalks, taking down airplanes, causing the avian flu that killed 50 million people 80 yrs ago, and preparing to do the exact same thing again... still are cat people joking about putting about poison bird seed, mass extermination of birds...

Pelleted food is a healthier choice than a seed diet, but it is important to convert birds slowly by offering seeds at the cage bottom, and pellets mixed with a few seeds at a higher location.

Using seed skirts, protectors or cages with guards at the store may be tough to deal with day in and day out, but from a marketing standpoint, stores should use them to demonstrate how effective they are at keeping the bird area clean.

Cathy Byrnes, product and marketing manager at Blue Ribbon, explains that there are generally four types of bird feeders: seed, nut, suet and hummingbird.

Maybe it happened when you were staring at the unbelievably large body size of elephants or unreasonably long necks of giraffes at a zoo, maybe it happened when you were in the front yard and you came across a bird that fell from its nest, or when you caught a grasshopper and gave it a closer look, or maybe it happened when you saw your first plant sprout from a seed.

Preferred habitat: rich woods, bottomlands + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: deciduous, leaves ten yellow, orange, or red in fall + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, well drained + + + + Light conditions: shade to partial shade + + + + Plant spacing: 12 to 15 feet + + + + Wildlife value: seeds eaten by many kinds of birds (at least 9 species) and squirrels; good cover; attracts Cardinal, American Goldfinch, Evening Grosbeak

In the wild, Xate seeds only sprout after passing through the digestive systems of birds, so at the nursery they treat the seeds with hot water before planting them.