From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

I put out my first bird feeder of the season on Thanksgiving and got the party started.

But there's more feeding the birds than just filling the feeders, like how to keep them

safe in the age of increased disease transmission, or how to provide essential water in the coldest

months, and of course, much needed tactics for outsmarting the squirrels.

So smart bird feeding and more bird related wisdom is our topic today with Julie Zikafouz,

but first this message.

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More information on the web colorblends.com. Today's guest, Zikfouz, is a wildlife

rehabilitator and artist and author of various books, including a favorite of mine,

saving Jemima, life and love with a hard luck J. She lives in

gardens on 80 acre wildlife sanctuary in Appalachian foothills of Ohio. Hi Julie and thanks for being

here to guide us this feeder season. I got a lot of customers. I got a lot of customers out there.

Me too. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. Before we get started, I want to say with

the transcript of this show over on Weightaguarding.com, let's have a giveaway of saving Jemima because

it's such a great book. Every time I say a blue J, I think of you since I read that book.

Oh, thank you so much for that. Yeah. What was that in 2018. Oh, so five, almost five years go. Okay, good.

So we'll do that. And also before we get started on the tips and so forth, I was glad to see that

what did I think it's a 43 year old magazine, Birdwatchers Digest that you've long contributed to,

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