What a great idea to keep the birds fed, and the cats away. I'm so glad they aren't starving. We have snow right now too at my home in NM. It's quite deep, but I plan to do the same thing, so the poor birds can have some food. Thanks for sharing your idea.

The Black Oil sunflower seeds were always the favorite around here. The birds would toss out all the other seeds and just eat the sunflower seeds, so it got to where that was all I bought. I don't feed them any more due to attracting snakes but my neighbor puts out several feeders so I don't feel bad about it.