January 2, 2003                                                                                                                     

Providing Winter Cover for Small Birds and Mammals A brush pile of limbs and twigs topped with evergreen boughs provides good winter cover for small birds and mammals. Or, cut the branches from your holiday tree and lay them on top of perennial beds as a mulch. In the spring, add them to your compost pile. Pictured at left is a tufted titmouse. Like chickadees, titmice are members of winter foraging flocks that roam the woodlands in search of food. With its quick, and slightly irregular flight, it pops from limb to limb and tree to tree. WPC's efforts to preserve our western Pa. natural lands

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