Get The Right Bird Feeder

by Jon Kilminster -

Bird watching is an amateur sport of many. We trudge out in the snow to see the chickadees, call the neighbours when there’s a bluebird in the yard and sprinkle seed out for the magpies even though they’re loud and scare our pets. At some point in everyone’s life it’s very likely that one or two bird feeders will be purchased so that we can pursue our odd obsession. But it’s tough to know just which bird feeders to buy. Hanging, tree-attached, free-standing? There is a lot of choice out there.

It’s a good idea to decide which sort of birds you want to attract to your yard, and think about which ones are already habitual visitors. All birds have different tastes and styles, and will respond to bird feeders and seeds in different ways. While your chickadees might enjoy smaller seeds and a bird feeder surrounded by bushes, cardinals will be happier with safflower and aren’t picky about tree cover. They’re just as picky as us, so it’s best to know a little about the birds you want to meet before choosing seed and bird feeders!

The best way to discover about the birds in your garden is not to surf the net, but get down to your local library or bookshop and buy a book. Get one with color photographs if you can. You'll also learn about their nesting and rearing habits, which can become a hobby in itself.

While most small birds are partial to sunflower seeds, you are likely to find that an abundance of them in your yard (scattered across the ground by messy birds) will attract other sorts of wildlife as well. Squirrels, raccoons and the odd rabbit might come ambling by to sample the free food, and you’ll be well on your way to owning a full-fledged menagerie. But what’s wrong with that? You always did like a little bird-watching, and now you’ve got the whole zoo to yourself.

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Bird Feeders--Their Contribution to Bird Watching

by Marijkaf

If you have ever engaged in bird watching, you know that it is an activity that will fill your day with the sheer pleasure and entertainment provided by playing and fluttering of these marvelous creatures with their whimsical nature. If you have never noticed many birds in your backyard, there are a few things you can try in order to attract them. You will be amazed how many different species you will be able to see. By including into your backyard décor a few bird houses, bird baths and several different kind of feeders, you will soon be enjoying a theatre like no other.

One thing that birds really appreciate is a bird bath where they can wade and splash around. You can choose from bird baths that are, rather, conventional or you can try something created using modern technical advances, such as solar powered fountains of some sort. Wild birds such as hummingbirds, robins, thrushes and warblers are attracted to moving water. These species will not come to an ordinary fountain. Besides attracting wild birds, water fountains, also, make a terrific garden décor that can become a gathering place for family and friends—a nice place to sit back and relax.

The next accessory you will want to add to your yard is a bird house. By adding a bird house, you will, greatly increase, the chances of a bird nesting in it. Birds will, not only, frequent your bird house occasionally, but they may, just decide, to make it the place where they decide to raise their young family. What a treat—to be able to see the fledglings begin to test their flight wings! Not only are bird houses practical accessories for bringing birds to your yard but they, also, serve as beautiful garden decors and conversational pieces. The large selection available will make it possible to show off your own individual decorative style.

The last major addition you can add to develop your area for bird watching is a bird feeder. Most bird feeders come in one of three different styles. Tube bird feeders are cylindrically-shaped with a place to land near the hole that lets the food come out. These types of feeders are ideal for a large variety of seeds, as long as the opening are wide enough to let the seeds pass. Hopper feeders serve species that shy away for tray and tube feeders but for smaller birds, tray feeders are the style of choice. If you are not set on any particular species of bird you would like to see in your yard and are willing to enjoy any species that cares to visit, you would be served well to invest in a general wild bird seed. A mixture of various bird seed will appeal to many species of birds. If you are looking to attract a particular species, you will have to investigate what seed is the favorite of that particular species.

If you are willing to invest in, at least, one of each of these three pieces for birds, you will soon find you will have feathered friends making your backyard a favorite hang-out and you will find yourself with a new, delightful recreation.

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Wild Bird Feeders - Why not?

by Craig Shinney

Ask any ornithologist of the importance of wild birds to a particular geographical eco-system and one will be met with a cacophonous response regarding delicate food chain balances, confusing statistical data pertaining to population decreases and the effect the decimation of natural habitats is having on their beloved winged friends.

But, for the most of us, the most appealing and luring attribute of the feathered sector of the evolutionary ladder is undoubtedly their outstanding aesthetic beauty. This, coupled with a vocal range unmatched anywhere in nature, is the reason why so many of us spend our hard earned on wild bird feeders.

Nuts about the Northern Flicker? Barmy about the Blue Hen Chicken? Mad for the Mountain Blue Bird? If the answer to any of these, or indeed all of them is yes then you need to know the perfect feeders to allow you to ogle to your heart's content.

Every ornithologist has a favourite bird. It may be the one bird that eludes him at every bird watching outing, the one he just can't entice with his wild bird feeder, his prize catch. Armed with a little inside knowledge and an earnest desire, you can find the bird you're looking for.

Wild bird feeders bring the normally more elusive of birds right into the arena of your own back garden, a perfect vantage point for bird watching in HD. With a variety of feeders to suit the most frugal of budgets, the most determined of pests, (those pesky squirrels!) and the most tiny of gardens, wild bird feeders allow anyone to have their own Technicolor bird watching movie-fest.

Added to this the fact that with the huge spectrum of decorative tables available, you can utilise it as a design feature to add panache to a mundane outdoor space, plus with a little bit of specialist insight you can even match the bird to your open-air decor. With a little research, you can choose the food and feeder to attract a particular species of bird and voila, instant coordination of flora and fauna. Who needs to pay the high prices of specialist gardeners?!

And for the more ecologically conscious amongst us, sleep well knowing that your little oasis might very well contribute to a coinciding rise in population numbers of your favourite bird, helping them feed and nurture their young in a safe and reliable environment. What more self-satisfaction could you get than knowing you've done your little bit to offset all the damage we inadvertently do to the natural habitats all around us?

With such minimal outlaying and maintenance costs, there really is very little reason NOT to have a wild bird feeder in your garden!

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