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Winter bird feeding hobby powers yard refuges and oddities
In Kansas a bird feeding hobby provides winter refuge and daily meals. Col Richard Thomas 502 describes his heated bird bath and plantings to attract cedar waxwings and other species. Enticing birds draws help from local stores and observers like Marvin Trip and Patty Young. State curator Robert Mengel explains migration and calorie needs, noting suet as a key energy source and that feeders rarely decide survival in sparse rural Kansas.
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Patty Young
Garden Center
15Th
New York
Trip
Kansas
Robert Mengel
Natural History Museum
Kansas University
Mengel