Peanuts by Charles Schulz for January 05, 2025

Made him swear.

Woodstock will just have to eat his way out of that dilemma.

Now they tell us bread is terrible for birds.

Typical Lucy.

U tortured it

Well, her heart’s in the right place, even if her bread is not.

Now he’s warm as well as fed

Covered with food.

When we get a snowfall that sticks, my thing is watching the squirrels in the park eat unsalted peanuts in the shell. I don’t mind if a blue jay dives in for one, but the other smaller birds can’t open the shells.

Feed the birds, and what have you got? Fat birds.

CRUMBy bird, huh?

Hey, Lucy, they were supposed to be scattered not ‘dumped’ on one unsuspecting little bird ! ! ! !

The first 1978 Sunday strip for the 1978 cycle in 2025, so last week the January 1, 1978 strip was skipped by Andrews-McMeel in favor of a 1960’s Sunday strip since the year in the last panel is not current for the current year.

Crumbs? Looks more like she cuts the crusts off her sandwiches like for High Tea!

Maybe she was building a cairn…? ok, so they’re usually made of stone.

Woodstock is gonna have to eat his way out of that.

Coated in breadcrumbs, hmm.

Poor Woodstock, always dumped on…

Food and shelter in 1 pile.

she is such a dip$hit

Her heart was in the right place, for a change. Can’t say the same for her head! Really cute one, though.

Crumby way to serve a poor, starving bird!

I keep wondering how animals have managed to survive for millions of years without humans catering to their every need

He’ll have to eat his way out.

Bread is not, of course, a good foodstuff for wild animals, though a single crust probably won’t do any harm. (However, the absolute ton that Lucy dumped out there would feed many more rats and mice than birds!) If you really want to feed the birds then the best thing is to build a garden that will have natural food sources through the winter – berry bushes, wildflowers, a variety of seed-producing trees like oaks.

The next best thing is… oh, probably black oil sunflower seeds, though if you’re in the US and you really want to repel invasive species and squirrels you might prefer to use safflower seed instead. If you have local fruit-eating birds then grape halves or frozen blueberries are a nice winter treat, or perhaps some chopped apples if you have mockingbirds. Woodpeckers and chickadees really like suet – but then, so do the house sparrows, the starlings, and the squirrels! If you want to deter them, use an upside down suet feeder and perhaps a “hot sauce” suet.

(Though if you like feeding the squirrels, winter and especially spring are hard times for them. Some frozen suet balls can help them make it through.)

There goes his diet

Woodstock …… can you see your food now …… :)

there is no chance that the bird can’t move - yellow canaries are about 20 grams

Poor Woodstock covered in bread

Good grief! ;-)

Woodstock hates pumpernickel