bird-feeder

plural bird-feeders

1. alternativeAlternative form of bird feeder.

   While the miseries of the pandemic multiplied, they sent me a photograph of a one-legged starling hanging around their bird-feeders that served as their “daily inspiration.”

   2020 May 28, Susan Gubar, “The Perseverance of André Watts”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 May 2020

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   THE gift catalogues from the mailorder houses seem wilder this year than ever before. It’s becoming hard to tell the supposed utilities — the shrimp-shellers, egg-timers, potholders, bird-feeders, and such — from the funny stuff — the dribble-glasses, trick cigars, and fur-lined bathtubs (“. . . for milady’s jewels”).

   1954 December, Charles W. Morton, “Accent on Living”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2022

   He added that because of the pandemic, more people in the region had set up bird-feeders or otherwise started paying attention to area wildlife — and thus, more people needed to change their bird-feeding behaviors.

   2021 August 22, Teo Armus, “A mysterious sickness blinding birds has disappeared as suddenly as it arrived”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2021