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How Bad is it Out There?

This time of year you will undoubtedly catch many prognosticators trying to forecast business for the year ahead. These will range from dismal to, surprisingly, on a small upswing.

Being the bold and risky editors that we are, we’re going to call the 2009 retail forecast a toss up. A roller coaster. Up and down. Because, frankly, who really knows anymore.

Project Wildbird’s research phase is all but complete, and organizers are preparing their third-year results.

The massive effort was commissioned to figure out, once and for all, what birds are really eating out there. Proponents contend that previous studies do not provide conclusive evidence for the feeding and feeder preferences of the nation’s most common wild backyard feeding birds.

According to projectwildbird.org, the first two years showed the most popular seed to be Black-Oil Sunflower, fine and medium Sunflower Chips, Nyjer, and White Proso Millet.