Every day I put out food for the birds. I put peanut butter in a log hanging from a willow tree, and sunflower seeds into a bird feeder hanging from a cottonwood tree. The birds are happy for the food, but there is always bits of it that fall to the ground. Yesterday afternoon there were two deer that came into the yard to clean up the food that the birds had dropped.
The photo above shows a mule deer standing beneath the peanut butter log, after scooping up the bits of peanut butter that had fallen to the snow. You can see a chickadee up on the log eating peanut butter.
At the same time across the yard, a second deer was busy picking up the sunflower seeds that had fallen from the green bird feeder above. It is good that nothing goes to waste, especially when it is so cold, and everyone needs more food. This morning our temperature was -23°C (-9°F).
Besides the two bird feeders, the deer always clean out most of the vegetable waste that I put on the compost pile. As a result, our compost pile never seems to grow during the winter.
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