 Schoolyard Tips
Label and organize
your supplies
Keep seed and other food in clean, air-tight, secure containers.
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Make or buy your bird feeders as these two
students from Ms. Botts' class at Church of Lakes Middle School in Orlando, Florida, did.
Provide a variety
of food in a variety of feeder types such as seed in hopper feeders and
suet in suet cages or logs. Ms. Lang's class, Chester School, Wooster, Ohio.
Choose an area
with existing cover such as this feeder area set up by Ms. Brown's class
at Sanibel Elementary in Sanibel, Florida.
Or landscape for
cover and natural food as Mr. Prosseda's class did at Bloomsburg Middle
School in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.
Provide instant
bird cover. Tree and shrub trimmings and/or Christmas trees placed around
feeders provide "instant" cover for birds and will likely increase the number of
ground-feeding birds you see around your feeders. This can be a helpful way to provide
greater cover while new plantings mature.
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Place feeders so
they are easily accessible and maintain your feeder area regularly. Ms.
Humason's students at Minnehaha Academy, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Provide water
to help make your feeder area more attractive to birds.
Enlist local
service groups. Winston-Salem Kiwanis Club helped set up a feeder area for
Easton Elementary School.
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Protect your
feeders from vandalism with locks and other securing devices. Here are
some ideas from Easton Elementary School and the Winston-Salem Kiwanis Club.
  
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