Bird Feeder
Welcome your new feathered friends with a bird feeder
If you're like most people you keep regular pets like cats, dogs and fish, and maybe an iguana or two in the basement. But birds can make your life happier too. And that's where a bird feeder comes in.
Birds love to eat. Now you can invite them to your backyard by installing a bird feeder
There are an enormous variety of bird feeders on the market from simple plastic tubes to the ornate and elaborate birdhouses. Visit your local garden center and you'll see what we mean.
There's bird feeders you leave on the ground, some you hang in trees, there's a hopper style bird feeder that's shaped like a little house, or there's window bird feeders that hang just outside your window, bringing the birds close, and giving you hours of pleasure as you watch the little creatures dining on the seeds you have left them. Your cat will love watching too.
Many backyard bird watchers rely on tube bird feeders
These are the ones with four or five holes in them, and small perches that the birds can stand on while feeding. You can put four or five different kinds of birdseed in this bird feeder, and thus attract different types of birds to the same bird feeder. Then you can watch as the birds fight one another for the seed.
To attract birds all year long - try suet bird feed
Suet is an important part of any feeding program. It attracts a wide variety of birds all year. You can buy suet bird feeder cages, or suet cakes that you can hang in trees.
Get a nectar bird feeder to attract humming birds and orioles
Some birds, like humming birds, take a little extra effort to attract, and it requires more specialized feeders to convince these guys to come to dinner.
Humming birds and orioles drink a sugar water mixture, and that's why you need a bird feeder called a nectar bird feeder.
Nectar bird feeders come in two types: vacuum feeders, an inverted bottle that empties into a lower reservoir with feeding holes; and saucer feeders, a container with a cover that has holes.
