Everything About Feeding Your Pet

No matter where you live, you will find that there are a great number of bird types local to you.  Here you will find a list that has been compiled from some of the top experts on bird regarding the top tips on placement of your bird feeders; thus giving you the best view of the birds in your area.  Once you know what types of birds are local to you, you will be able to choose the right kind of food you can use to attract and enjoy them.

Bird Seed

There really is no “bird seed”, there are just many different seeds of plants that birds like to eat.  The key is here is that there are lots of types of foods and that not all types of birds like to consume the same types of seeds.  If you are looking to attract a large variety of birds to your feeders and yard then the best choice for you will most likely be the black sunflower seed.  When you use black sunflower seeds as bird food, it attracts a huge variety of birds.

On the other hand, if attracting smaller birds like sparrows and finches you will need to try a different kind of bird food.  For these, try a mixture of smaller seeds like millet corn and thistle seed.  When these are combined, the bird food will attract these smaller birds to you feeders quite well.

Insect Eaters

Depending on where you live there is a chance that the birds that you are trying to attract don’t eat seeds.  Well there is good trick for some of these.  For birds that you may not have liked so much in the past like woodpeckers try a mix of beef suet and peanut butter.  This will make a great bird food.  The advantage of this is that if you keep it available throughout the entire spring and summer it will actually help you keep those woodpeckers away from your trees and house.  This is due to the fact that the birds will be more likely to be attracted to the bird food than your home’s walls.

Sugar Nectar

Hummingbirds are beautiful birds and lots of people like to have these bird frequent their yards and bird feeders.  If you are looking to attract some hummingbirds make sure you put out lots of sugar nectar.  In order for these little birds to maintain their high energy levels, they are required to eat a constant diet of high-sugar food.  This high-sugar bird food is typically flower nectar.  I f you put up several feeders filled with uncolored sugar water, you will have a lots of hummingbirds visiting you all year round.

There are many choices that you can make when attracting birds to your feeders.  Decide what types of birds you would like to see and then simply follow some of the guidelines I have laid out here and choose the right bird food.  Enjoy the birds that visit your feeders.

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Do you love to watch wild birds gather around your window or deck? I really enjoy watching them. Sometimes in the summer they will play in the bird bath in my back yard and in the spring I watch them enjoy my garden. I am not sure what it is but there is something that is just calming and pleasant about watching these birds. Here is a quick and easy recipe for putting together your own bird food that they will love.

Yes, Even Wild Birds Need Food

Wild bird’s diets consist of proteins, grains and fats. Most of the year their diet can be sustained by plants and animals that they can find in their natural habitat or various home gardens. I often see them where I live enjoying the sunflower seed that grow by the road to my house. These sunflowers provide them with a good source of fat and protein.

A good reason for helping out these birds and encouraging them to your yard is that they can be good form of pest and bug control around your house. Typically wild birds will feed on these bugs as they provide them with a ready supply of protein.

This can change drastically for the birds when the winter seasons come along as the food supply provided by insects, bugs and plants diminish quickly due to the cold weather. During these months most birds become extremely inactive. Trying to conserve their energy as the food supply has dwindled.

The few calories that these birds do utilize are used primarily for basic body functions and to keep them warm. One good way to help these birds out during these hard months in return for what they do for you the rest of the year is provide them with a nice supply of wild bird food.

Wild Bird Food Recipe

The main thing that you need to keep in mind when you are making up a batch of wild bird food is that you want to provide them with the right mix of nuts and seeds so that the nutritional needs of the birds will be met. You are not doing them any favors if you simply give them food that won’t help them. There are all kinds of fruits, nuts and seeds that you can add in that will attract different types of birds, but it might be best to start with a general purpose bird food mix and then “fine tune” from there. That way you will give the option to sustain multiple types of birds through the winter.

It is rather simple to whip together a great mix of wild bird food. Simply get all of the ingredients that you are going to use – typically dried fruit in small pieces, oats and sunflower seeds – and mix them together. If you think that your bird friends deserve a little more you can throw in some thistle see, bread crumbs or croutons and even some peanuts in. All of these will be safe for the birds.

One thing that you need to remember, and no I am not joking, is that the presentation of what you offering these wild birds are important. A commercial bird feeder will do fine or you can use a metal pie tin. Some people don’t like the way that these options look around their house so they opt to get creative and serve the bird food on a pine cone coated with peanut butter. However you serve your wild bird food always make sure you leave a source of water to help your birds wash down their food.

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