Bird feeders

Bird feeders are excellent ways to bring birds into your garden and to give you a place to focus on during your bird-watching. But which birds are you attracting to your bird feeders? Which bird feeders are best for the types of bird that you want to watch?

Here is a quick guide to bird feeders and bird food:

· Quail and pheasants prefer cracked corn, but also eat millet and berries.
· Hummingbirds like plant nectar and small insects, but also enjoy sugar water.
· Pigeons and doves prefer millet, but will eat sunflower seeds, bread, nuts, and cracked corn.
· Woodpeckers like suet, insects, and meat scraps, but they will also eat sunflower seed, bread products, and cracked corn.
· Warblers like suet and water, but they will go for breads, fruit, sugar water, and nut pieces.
· Bluebirds, thrushes, and robins love mealworms, suet, berries, and water, but you can get away with feeding them raisins and currants, breadproducts, and nut meal.
· Sparrows love suet, peanut kernels, and millet, but you can also try canary seed, bread crumbs, and sunflower seed.
· Finches eat nyjer/thistle seed and sunflower seed, but they also enjoy fruits, suet, millet, and peanuts.

This list ought to give you at least a starting idea as to what sort of food to put out, depending on which birds that you want to attract. Now, what sort of bird feeders should you use? Try placing a variety of bird feeders around your yard as well as a variety of food.

Well, if you want hummingbirds, then there are special hummingbird birdfeeders that you can pick up. These birdfeeders easily hold the liquid sugar water that you put into them. Just as a side note, though, although many people put red food coloring their solution to attract the birds, it is not necessary. In fact, the food coloring could possibly harm the birds.

A platform feeder is great for ground feeding birds.

Suet feeders is perfect for insect-eating birds.

Hanging feeders are just right for perching birds.

For larger birds (especially larger birds that you want to keep away from your other bird feeders), you can place some dog food in a dish-like bird feeder. The dog food is still good for the larger birds, and if you slowly move it further and further away from your other bird feeders, you should not have so much trouble with the large birds eating from your other bird feeders.

As an extra note, yes it is great to place a variety of birdfeeders all around your yard, but try to avoid putting any by your patio or other places that you may want to sit, without having to worry about getting pooped on!

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