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How to Use Suet

Suet is a high-fat, high-energy food that attracts insect-eating birds. It's traditionally put out in the winter when insects are scarce, but suet products available today can be used year-round.

How to Feed Winter Birds Using an Onion Mesh Bag

Use an onion mesh bag to feed winter birds. Once you hang this bag in a tree, you'll see a great selection of winter birds such as chickadees, woodpeckers and nuthatches.

Various Bird Feeders for Backyard Birding

Hello, welcome to Expert Village. My name is Wayne Petersen, director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society Important Bird Areas Program and we’re here this afternoon at the Daniel Webster Wildlife Sanctuary in Marshville, Massachusetts. Next we...

Home Made Bird Food Recipes

Birdseed mixes can be purchased at many grocery stores or pet stores but many of the inexpensive mixes contain large amounts of millet which many birds will not eat. Rather than wasting your money on store-bought birdseed only to have half the mix...

How to Buy Meat for Bird Food

While we might not generally think of small yard birds as being carnivorous creatures, some do eat meat. Filling bird feeders with animal-based bird foods is a great way to attract these feathered friends. Especially during cold winter months, birds...

How to Keep the Starlings From Eating All of My Bird Seed

Starlings were introduced to North America by Eugene Schieffelin, a fan of English literature whose organization, the "American Acclimatization Society," attempted to introduce every bird mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare to the United States...

How to Get Blackbirds Away From a Birdfeeder

Large birds like blackbirds can rapidly deplete feeders, putting a dent in your birdseed budget and discouraging the smaller, colorful birds you love to see from visiting your yard. It is not that you have anything against the large, hungry birds. You...

What Is a Red Capsicum for Bird Seed?

Wild birdseed feeders are supposed to invite feathered visitors into your garden, but most often you get much more than you bargain for. Birdseed and suet manufacturers sometimes add red capsicum in order to discourage the rodents and other mammals that...

Can Wild Birds Eat Human Foods?

Most bird feeders are made for commercial bird seed but, although most human food is unhealthy for birds, there may be other treats in your pantry that will attract wild varieties safely. Fall is the best time to fill the outdoor feeders because birds...

How to Keep Grackles From Suet Feeders

Birds are charming and colorful, and many people seek to draw them to their property with bird feeders and birdhouses. But not all birds are created equal. Blackbirds and grackles are large and raucous, and tend to push out smaller birds through their...

Information on Bird Food

Choosing the proper bird food can be challenging. There is a range of options to select from. One must balance nutritional concerns, quality, and price when purchasing bird food.

DIY Bird Seed Hanger

When a seed feeder is left within reach of certain animals, such as cats or squirrels, the birds it was intended for may never get a chance to enjoy the food. Creating your own birdseed hanger makes it possible to feed the birds while keeping the seed...

How to Make a Gift Basket for Birdwatchers

Any birdwatcher would be delighted to receive a birdwatcher's gift basket designed with their needs in mind. Although bird seed and feeders are sure to be a welcome gift, you don't need to stop there. With a little thought you can provide your...

How to Stop Woodpeckers From Damaging Siding

Woodpeckers drum and drill for one of two reasons: Either they're drumming to announce their presence to a potential mate or adversary, or they're drilling for food or a place to nest. Either way, if they're drumming and drilling your home's siding, they...

Wild Bird Foods

You can encourage wild birds to visit your yard by offering food for them. The quality, types and location of wild bird foods are important to tempt your feathered visitors to keep coming back. Offer food that complements the birds' natural diet...

Birdfeeder Tips

Bird feeders will attract a variety of birds to your garden throughout the year. In winter, birds visit a feeder when natural foods are not available. During the spring and fall, migrating birds use feeders as a fuel stop, and in the summer feeders...

How to Care for a Sick Bird

It is impossible for a bird lover to turn her back on a sick or injured bird. One common mistake people make is thinking that a bird is sick and needs to be rescued, when the bird is in fact a youngster that is just learning how to fly. If you see a bird...

How to Create a Bird Feeding Area

Creating a bird feeding area is fun and educational for children and adults as well. It can be a welcome alternative to television, and a low-cost way for family members to spend time together. Whether you live in an urban area or the country, in an...

How to Attract Insect Eating Birds

The best insect-eating birds are chickadees, barn swallows, purple martins, robins, mockingbirds, nuthatches and woodpeckers. They are capable of eating 1,000 insects in a single afternoon without doing any damage to the environment. All birds have three...

How to Find and Identify the Tufted Titmouse

A songbird that lives in the eastern half of the United States, the tufted titmouse has actually expanded its range northwards in recent times. As late as 1940, it was not found above New Jersey and Iowa for instance, but now inhabits New England and...

How to Protect Wild Birds From Predators While Feeding

Bird feeders can attract a wide variety of colorful and interesting birds to your yard or garden. Many bird lovers and nature lovers put up feeders to attract birds that would not normally come out into the open to be observed. Unfortunately, when birds...

Why Does Bird Seed Grow Grass?

Instructions What is in Bird Seed? Step 1: Bird seed contains one or more of a variety of seeds and other ingredients depending on the type of birds you are trying to feed or attract. Some common ingredients in bird seed are the black-oil sunflower seed...

Types of Bird Feed

Food types for wild birds are numerous and can be purchased by single type or by bagged blends. Select bird foods based upon the preferred diet of the bird species you hope to attract to your feeder.

Bird Habitats

Any wildlife habitat requires four things: Shelter, food, water and a place to raise babies. A backyard can become a bird habitat with little effort.

How to Kill a Pine Beetle in Your Trees

Pine beetles are mainly found in forests in Western North America. They can, however, also be found all the way from Canada down to Mexico. Pine beetles won't hurt humans or animals, but they will destroy all of the trees in their path. If you notice any...

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