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The feathered friends on your New Years’ Resolution list would like nothing more than to find their favorite foods in your backyard this winter. The secret of attracting wild birds to your feeding stations is to provide the foods they like best and to put them in the right places, according to Ranger Rick’s Nature Magazine. Just as some birds would rather eat suet than nuts, many birds prefer to eat on the ground rather than from hanging feeders. The National Wildlife Federation's monthly publication for children offers these guidelines for providing a variety of wintering birds with the right foods in the right places: • GROUND FEEDERS include blue jays, sparrows, juncos, quail, mourning doves, pheasants, chickadees, and house finches. Their favorite foods are sunflower seeds, cracked com (inexpensive, but will also attract starlings, grackles, and pigeons), wild bird seed mix, and peanuts. Feeders can be split fireplace logs (flatside upi, hubcaps (for‘food or water), garbage can lids, trays, shallow pans, or birdbath tops (forwater). • TABLETOP OR WINDOW FEEDERS include cardinals, goldfinches, grosbeaks, chickadees, house finches, redpolls, purple finches, mockingbirds, and jays. Their favorite foods are sunflower seeds, shelled peanuts, wild bird seed mix, raisins, and curants. Feeders can be trays placed on picnic tables, benches, or stumps, of attached to windowsills. • HANGING OR HIGH POST FEEDERS include cardinals, chickadees, goldfinches or other (inches, pine siskins, redpolls, titmice, and nuthatches. Thei* favorite foods are niger or thistle seeds, sunflower seeds, wild bird seed mix, and peanut hearts or other nutmeaLs.

Feeders can be plastic tube feeders, round or square post feeders (some shaped like little houses), or recycled milk cartons, detergent, or bleach bottles, which have been cut open for easy access. • trunk feeders include - '* chickadees, woodpeckers, nuthatches, and

many seedeating birds.

Their favorite foods are suet or sliet cakes, which can be mixed with peanut butter, seeds, and other treats. Feeders can be wire mesh -holders, plastic mesh bags (used for onions,

oranges, etc.) or log holders.

Feeders should be kept clean and ^checked every day. Don’t put out large amounts of food and water, birds need coyer. * * It s always nice to yake up on a frosty winter morning and see a perky chickadee feeing in your backyard. And it’s a perfect way to wish wildlifea "Happy New Year."

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Walking will replace jogging as a safe effective exercise for Americans in the next decade," says Manhattan lawyer Gary Yanker. He has just walked for 49 days along the Ocean Hiway routes and beaches from the Statue of Liberty in New York to Jackson-

ville Beach, FI.

A marathon walker who has authored three books, he plans to produce a book on walking and has developed his own special shoes during the walk. He feels that walking meets the physical needs of all ages andis a better form of exercise than jogging. The 32-year-old averages 20 to 30 miles each day, combining speed walking and race walking with normal walk-

ing and rest stops

YANKER BEGAN his LlOb-plus mile hike at New York harbor on Aug. 28. He proceeded east of the Garden State Parkway to North Cape May, where he caught the ferry to Lewes, DE and walked along the c6ast of the Delmarva peninsula to U.S. 13 over tjie Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel into Norfolk, VA where the Ocean Hiway becomes U.S. 17 south to Florida. His stops included Cape May, Lewes, Rehoboth, Bethany and Fenwick Beaches, DE. Ocean City and Assateague Island, MD; Assateague and Chincoteague Islands, Tasley, Cape Charles, Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Great Bridge, VA; Kitty Hawk, Nags Head, Hatteras, Ocracoke Island,

Morehead City, Emerald Isle, New Bern, Jacksonville, Hampstead, Wilmington, the Brunswick Isles, NC; Myrtle Beach, Georgetown, Charleston, SC; Savannah, Darien, Brunswick, Jekyll Island. St. Mary’s GA ; and Jacksonville Beach, FI. THE OCEAN HIWAY Association is a non-profit organization, founded in 1935, which provides free maps and guidebooks for motorists traveling to and from Atlantic coast destinations between New York and Jacksonville. For a free 48-page Motorists Guidebook and Coastal Strip map, send three stamps to Ocean Hiway Association, 1788 Independence Blvd., Virginia Beach. VA 23455.

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