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July 26, 2008
All creatures need food, water and shelter in order to exist and birds are no exception. Providing bird feeders in your backyard will not only attract your feathered friends and give you hours of enjoyment watching their antics and pleasure but you will also benefit from their keeping the bugs to a minimum in your yard. With the decline of bugs, you will have little or no need to use pesticides, therefore, greatly helping our environment. Talk about a “win win” situation!
Bird feeders
come in a vast array of designs and sizes so you are sure to find some to enhance your yard as well as attracting a variety of birds. Seed feeders are the most common type. These can vary in design from tubes to hoppers and trays. Sunflower seed or mixed seed are popular for use in these feeders and will attract many songbirds. There are finch feeders with smaller openings to dispense the tiny nyjer thistle seed which is a favorite of smaller finches.
Hummingbird feeders supply liquid nourishment to hummingbirds in the form of a sugar solution. This can be made of a mixture of 3 parts water to 1 part sugar.
Oriole feeders also supply artificial nectar. Orioles and some other birds will also come to fruit foods, such as grape jelly or half an orange.
A suet feeder will contain a block of suet to feed woodpeckers, flickers, nuthatches and many other species of insect eaters. Suet is high in fat which helps to keep birds warm and nourished during the cold winter.
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