Summer is a great time to discover new foods that attract more birds to your yard. The arrival of warm weather means, for most of us, that the hummingbirds have arrived and a variety of colorful,…
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How to Store Mealworms and Seed So you’ve bought plenty of food that will attract birds to your yard, but you obviously can’t put it all out there at once. What, then, are you going to…
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Here’s something that may surprise you: Over fifty-five million Americans over the age of sixteen feed wild birds, and together they spend more than three billion dollars a year on bird food, and another eight-hundred million…
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I bought my first bird feeder this weekend! The second I put it up, I looked around, expectantly. Where are all the birds? I experienced what most beginning birders must feel: a sense of awe mixed…
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It takes 75 lbs. of sunflower seeds in the shell to get 25 lbs. of 100% bird edible, sunflower heart meats. Two thirds the weight of sunflower seeds is shell that can’t be eaten by the…
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Attract More Birds This Year with 5 New Year’s Resolutions for Bird Lovers 1. Resolve to keep your yard pesticide-free If you do nothing else for wild birds, at least try to do this. Some pesticides…
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Have you ever tried feeding fruit and jelly to the birds? It’s amazing how many birds are attracted to fruit—something that berry and fruit growers already know! If you have fruit and berry trees on your property,…