{"id":3198,"date":"2017-01-17T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:01:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:01:59","slug":"helping-wildlife-in-your-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/helping-wildlife-in-your-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping wildlife in your own backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Here are some ideas you can share with family and friends, and take part in to make winter wildlife a priority at home!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep bird feeders full and clean them off after storms.<\/li>\n<li>Build bird houses for the spring.<\/li>\n<li>Walk around your property to see if any egg masses from damaging tent caterpillars or gypsy moths can be removed.<\/li>\n<li>When you take down the Christmas tree, place it in your backyard as a winter shelter for birds.<\/li>\n<li>Put out suet and fat mixes to keep birds warm and give them lots of energy.<\/li>\n<li>Make spring clean-up easier by spreading a water-permeable &#8220;drop cloth,&#8221; such as landscape fabric, under your bird feeder to catch sunflower hulls.<\/li>\n<li>Decorate outside trees with strings of unsweetened cranberries, apple slices and orange bits\u2014birds will enjoy this!<\/li>\n<li>Take advantage of time indoors to research local wildlife and its needs.<\/li>\n<li>Keep track of birds that visit your feeders.<\/li>\n<li>Participate in the Christmas bird count. Take your bird-watching hobby to the next level and join the annual Christmas Bird Count. The information gathered is used to generate long-term data on population dynamics and the health of North American birds. To find a \u201ccount circle\u201d near you, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsc-eoc.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bird Studies Canada website<\/a> and follow the Volunteer Programs link to the Christmas Bird Count.<\/li>\n<li>Plan and prepare. Write yourself a list of anything you might need for spring and design any new beds you\u2019re planning to add.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Learn more about the winter world of wildlife by joining <a href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/explore-our-work\/connecting-with-nature\/below-zero\/\" target=\"_blank\">CWF&#8217;s Below Zero campaign<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Here are some ideas you can share with family and friends, and take part in to make winter wildlife a priority at home! Keep bird feeders full and clean them&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[631],"tags":[850,854,741],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-connect-with-nature","tag-below-zero","tag-wildlife-in-winter","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3203,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}