Attract Birds to Your Backyard

The cutest thing happened the other day. I have a squirrel platform on a pine tree. I put out some dried corn, peanuts, and pumpkin seeds to feed the grey squirrel that frequents my yard. Two Steller Jays came to the feeder first and began to eat the peanuts. Suddenly the grey squirrel came rushing down the tree. The Steller Jays flew to a nearby bush and squawked loudly. The grey squirrel threw his body over the feeder covering his food. It looked as if he was saying, "Mine! All mine!" The squirrel began stuffing his cheeks and running down to bury his treasured food. The jays then took the opportunity to fly up to the feeder and stuff their cheeks and flew off to stash their treasured food in an unknown secret place where the squirrel could not find it. None of them understand that the source of the food is me. When they are out of food, I will just put some more on the feeder. ***********************************************************************
In my yard, not only do I have Steller Jays and Squirrels, but a variety of Hummingbirds, Finches, Downey Woodpeckers, Pileated Woodpeckers, Sparrows, Red-breasted Nuthatches, Northern Flickers, Black-capped Chickadees,Chestnut-backed Chickadees, Robins, Crows, yellow Warbler's, Western Tanagers, European Starlings, Spotted Towhee, and many other types of birds. With this many birds coming and going from my yard, I constantly have beautiful song and great entertainment watching their behaviors.
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How can you make bird frindly yards. You can do it anywhere; from an apartment balcony, to a tiny bit of yard. There is one man in prison in Monroe, Washington that feeds the birds out of his small window. The birds know, out of all the many windows, which one to fly to. Birds, like all animals, need food. If you keep on ongoing supply of different bird foods, they will all come eventually. Then next year when the migrating birds come back (like hummingbirds) they will look for food in your yard first and raise their babies in your neighborhood. So what do you need?
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1. You need seed and foods that attract the different birds in your area. A good book on birds will help. Try this website and click on the birds section: http://www.everythingnaturalpetfood.com/PetEducationBooks.html
2. You need to find a large variety of foods to choose from. Try this website and click on Wild Bird seeds: http://www.everythingnaturalpetfood.com/WildCrittersSupplies.html
3. Birds need a source of drinking water, especially during dry months when rain is scarace. Try this website and click on Duncraft Bird Baths: http://www.everythingnaturalpetfood.com/WildCrittersSupplies.html
4. To keep birds in your area you can provide feeders. Look at the variety of feeders links on http://www.everythingnaturalpetfood.com/WildCrittersSupplies.html
5. To attract and assit the nesting building in early spring, you can lay out some nesting materials. Go to http://www.everythingnaturalpetfood.com/WildCrittersSupplies.html, click on Bird Houses, choose Bird Houses, scroll down to Nesting Materials.

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Continue your feeding and watering and building your yard with bird frindly bushes, houses, etc. and year after year they will be back and bring their babies with them.

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If your a squirrell lover like I am, don't forget to look at http://www.everythingnaturalpetfood.com/WildCrittersSupplies.html and look at the squirell foods.

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