Do you feed the wildlife your leftover or stale scraps?

I always do. Sometimes i buy them treats too. The robins get mealworms and the foxes get chicken and the deer get carrots.

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

Sometimes I do. Bread is probably not the best thing but when they are hungry it will fill their bellies enough to keep them from starving. I shell pecans and the ones with spots they can have, leftover cornbread is really loved by wild birds like ravens and crows, and fruit scraps are good too. Rabbits will eat watermelon from the rind if you put it out for them and some other fruit.

meggie · F

@cherokeepatti the crows are sometimes quicker than the squirrels and take the peanuts in shells and hold them in their feet and crack them open. They are clever birds. They have learnt to follow the squirrels and see where they hide their nuts and steal them

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@meggie when I lived in the country as a teenager I caught a wild crow and fed him cornbread and released him. I fed him every day for months, that crow would follow my car down the driveway when I went to work and would wait on the mailbox and follow me back to the house. He didn’t like sliced wheat bread and would take it and put it out in the yard under a tree, find a leaf to put on top and then find a rock to put on the leaf to keep it from blowing away. 😂 Our German shepherd would watch and wait till he left and go get the bread. But if I gave him a chunk of cornbread he’d eat that up quickly, or canned corn.

meggie · F

@cherokeepatti many have taught them tricks using food and they work it out whereas lots of other birdscare not so ckever.