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How to Attract Birds to your Bird Feeder
By Janet Ashby
In order to attract the wild bird species you would like to your feeder you will need to provide a suitable feeder and food to attract them. Different birds will need different types of feeder. Large bird will need a sturdy feeder with large perches, hummingbirds will need a nectar feeder, finches will be attracted to thistle seeds in a suitable feeder. There are even specially designed feeders for different species. Feeders suitable for the type of feed you are offering are listed below: * Tube feeder - thistle or other small seeds
* Platform feeder - fruit or special food types
* Hummingbird feeder - nectar
* Mesh cage feeder (squirrel proof) - suet, peanuts, larger seeds
* Standard feeder - sunflower seeds, safflower seeds
Food suitable for different species is listed below. * Bluebird Cornmeal with peanut butter added, bluebird seed available to purchase.
* Bunting Small seeds & grains.
* Blackbirds Small seeds & grains, breadcrumbs
* Chickadee Unsalted nuts, suet, safflower seeds, sunflower seeds
* Finches Thistle (Niger) seeds, black sunflower Seeds.
* Jay Peanuts, corn ,suet, sunflower
* Mourning Dove sunflower and safflower seeds, wheat, milo and cracked corn seeds
* Mockingbird Bread, raisins, suet
* Robin Apples, raisins and breadcrumbs
* Northern Shrike Suet.
* Siskin Thistle seeds, sunflower seeds.
* Thrasher Bread, raisins, suet
* Towhee Bird seed mixtures for small birds
* Woodpecker sunflower and safflower seeds, wheat, milo and cracked corn seeds
* Warblers Peanut butter, suet (although usually insect eaters)
* Townsend’s Warblers Peanut butter, suet, cheese
* Yellow Throated Warbler Breadcrumbs. Choose your bird feeder and type of food carefully and you will attract the wild birds that you would like in your garden.
This intel first appeared on: http://www.gardenbirdfeeders.net/2008/10/17/how-to-attract-birds-to...
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