Landscaping and bird watching are a natural fit for each other, as I've discussed in my articles on plants that attract wild birds. And many people choose winter as a time to focus on feeding the wild birds, since that's when they're most desperate for food. Unfortunately, so are the grey squirrels, which has created a great demand for squirrel-proof bird feeders. Read this review of squirrel-proof bird feeders to gain some assurance that it is, indeed, possible to thwart marauding squirrels. Squirrel-proof bird feeders can prevent those grey acrobats from making all that expensive bird food disappear before the birds have even had a chance to read the menu!