Birds, like humans, enjoy a variety of food sources.
Birds can also be picky eaters.
Some birds only eat seed, some only eat fruit and others eat nothing but suet or beef fat.
Of all the winter bird food available, Suet provides one of the highest energy sources found.
The high energy content found in Suet helps birds maintain their normal body weight and temperature through out the lean winter months.
Suet will attract many birds whose diet consists mainly of insects.
This includes woodpeckers, bluejays, nuthatches, titmice, chickadees and flickers.
Note that woodpeckers can be damaging to a wood sided home, so keep this in mind when placing your suet feeders.
Small seeds such as millet, milo, sorghum, cracked corn and thistle will attract goldfinch, cardinals, bluejays, juncos, titmice and nuthatches.
Note thistle seed is the same seed that the large thistle weed grows from.
It is hoped the bird will eat the seed from your feeder then find his way to a lovely remote location to finish the digestion process.
Chopped fruit in your yard will entice hard to attract birds such as robins, mockingbirds and cedar waxwings.
Some bird enthusiasts may want to prepare their own bird food.
Tasty concoctions can be made using peanut butter, suet, and cornmeal.
Prepare the recipe by heating one part Suet, then mixing in one equal part peanut butter and six equal parts cornmeal.
While still hot pour into muffin tins lined with cupcake papers and allow to cool in the refrigerator.
The finished product can be put into a feeder, sat on a perch or you may string a wire through it and hang from a limb to attract warblers, robins, wrens and many other winter species.
Pheasants and quail can also be attracted to man made feeding stations.
Whole and cracked corn are the most widely used food source but almost any type of grain will attract these birds.
By employing several different types of feeders you will be sure to attract a greater variety of birds.
Remember the four feeding niches to be filled are ground level, table top level, hanging and tree trunk.
Birds can also be picky eaters.
Some birds only eat seed, some only eat fruit and others eat nothing but suet or beef fat.
Of all the winter bird food available, Suet provides one of the highest energy sources found.
The high energy content found in Suet helps birds maintain their normal body weight and temperature through out the lean winter months.
Suet will attract many birds whose diet consists mainly of insects.
This includes woodpeckers, bluejays, nuthatches, titmice, chickadees and flickers.
Note that woodpeckers can be damaging to a wood sided home, so keep this in mind when placing your suet feeders.
Small seeds such as millet, milo, sorghum, cracked corn and thistle will attract goldfinch, cardinals, bluejays, juncos, titmice and nuthatches.
Note thistle seed is the same seed that the large thistle weed grows from.
It is hoped the bird will eat the seed from your feeder then find his way to a lovely remote location to finish the digestion process.
Chopped fruit in your yard will entice hard to attract birds such as robins, mockingbirds and cedar waxwings.
Some bird enthusiasts may want to prepare their own bird food.
Tasty concoctions can be made using peanut butter, suet, and cornmeal.
Prepare the recipe by heating one part Suet, then mixing in one equal part peanut butter and six equal parts cornmeal.
While still hot pour into muffin tins lined with cupcake papers and allow to cool in the refrigerator.
The finished product can be put into a feeder, sat on a perch or you may string a wire through it and hang from a limb to attract warblers, robins, wrens and many other winter species.
Pheasants and quail can also be attracted to man made feeding stations.
Whole and cracked corn are the most widely used food source but almost any type of grain will attract these birds.
By employing several different types of feeders you will be sure to attract a greater variety of birds.
Remember the four feeding niches to be filled are ground level, table top level, hanging and tree trunk.