Water is a bigger attractant for wild life than food and is extremely important factor for survival. Feeding stations are also needed to encourage wildlife to visit trails. Feeding can be a simple procedure. While the naturalist takes their morning walk to identify species and record them on the register, they can carry along a sack of seed and fill feeders and scatter seed in the same places at different levels. Birds eat at different heights, and some become territorial with feeding grounds.
Permanent residents are more prone to becoming territorial.
Some residents are cardinals, mockingbirds, blue jays, black capped chickadees, tufted titmouse, eastern bluebirds, American robins and several woodpeckers. Woodpeckers can be brought into closer view by luring them with peanut butter on a tree trunk. Once established all feeding stations should be kept in the same location. A popular misconception is to stop feeding birds in the winter. Birds are triggered by day length to migrate not available food.