Bunches of Birds for Your Bucks
Sunflower Chips, black oil sunflower seed without the hulls, is a great food to offer if you'd like to attract oodles of birds to your feeder while being lazy about sweeping hulls. Read more...
Connect with Nature!
Connect with Nature!
Sunflower Chips, black oil sunflower seed without the hulls, is a great food to offer if you'd like to attract oodles of birds to your feeder while being lazy about sweeping hulls. Read more...
The first time I saw a “wild canary”, I thought it was a pet store escapee! Read more...
For those in search of gold (finches), Nyjer seed is the best bait! Read more...
Many people who feed birds are familiar with the heart wrenching feathery thud of a bird striking a window. Read more...
Sometimes, you’re glad to be in a mall food court or near a “restaurant row,” where enough choices are close by to please everybody. Have you thought of creating a Food Court for Birds in your back yard? Like people, birds have preferences about what, where, and how they like to eat. Here’s how you can build a Food Court for the birds in your neighborhood. Read more...
When cold winter storms hit the Portland Metro area, you may be lucky enough to see some new birds in your yard. As temperatures drop in the mountains and the foothills around us, birds move to lower elevations in search of food and warmer temperatures. Read more...
Low fat diets may be good for people, but not for birds! Birds metabolize fat more efficiently than seed, so it helps birds maintain their high body temperatures. In the wild, birds scavenge animal fat from carcasses. Read more...
My backyard birds really love Mr. Bird’s nut and seed logs! I have offered both varieties, alternating between PecanFeast and WildBird Feast, and getting lots of action on both! I’ve seen nuthatches, chickadees, Downy Woodpeckers, Northern Flickers, Song Sparrows, House Finches, and even a Black-headed Grosbeak feasting on them. Read more...
It’s true, black oil sunflower seed is the best choice for attracting the widest variety of birds. It's also true that going beyond black oil sunflower may bring new “diners” to your feeders. Here’s a tip: one type of seed per feeder reduces waste and mess. Birds rifle through seed mixes, dropping everything but their favorite. Another tip: don't buy "wild bird seed mixes" with stuff in them that Portland area birds won't eat -- like milo, for example. Backyard Bird Shop takes pride in offering the cleanest, freshest seeds you can buy for the best price you can find them! Read more...
Autumn signals time to say “goodbye” to many fascinating birds that migrate to warmer climates. Gone until spring are Rufous Hummingbirds, Vaux Swifts, Barn, Violet Green and Tree Swallows, and many American Robins. They’ve migrated south because the supply of nectar and insects diminishes in a Pacific Northwest winter. Autumn is also a time to say “hello” to birds that migrate to the Pacific Northwest in search of seeds and soft ground for probing. Read more...
Here are 4 tips to help you keep from growing a crop under your feeder: Read more...
It may take a while for birds to find a new feeder, but they WILL find it eventually. Read more...
Some people believe that feeding backyard birds is a messy process. If you have a similar view, consider the following neatness tips: Read more...
As a new birder and new Backyard Bird Shop staff member, Angela writes about the challenges of bringing backyard birds to a new feeding area, and offers a few tips to make you more successful. Read more...
There's so much to like about NPR! Click on the link below to enjoy Julie Zickefoose's article about birds watching us as we watch them! She includes a nice recipe for suet dough. We found that Yellow Rumped and Townsend's warblers really like it! Read more...
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