Rice Creek Field Station Bird Feeders

A Living Window into Rice Creek Field Station

This camera watches a cluster of bird feeders perched in a grassy clearing at Rice Creek Field Station, a 400-acre teaching and research preserve operated by the State University of New York at Oswego. The station's mosaic of ponds, woodlands and meadows makes it a natural gathering point for local wildlife.

The Feathered Visitors

Tube, hopper and platform feeders offer seed to an ever-changing cast of chickadees, cardinals, finches, woodpeckers and nuthatches. Patient watchers may catch squirrels and other small mammals foraging beneath the feeders, turning each visit into a small backyard safari.

An Educational Nature Preserve

Rice Creek serves students, researchers and the public alike, with trails, an interpretive center and hands-on ecology programs. The feeder view offers a quiet, close-up study of backyard bird behavior and the rhythms of a healthy temperate ecosystem.