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Fun Facts About Hummingbirds

How much do you know about hummingbirds? These facts might surprise you about these backyard visitors.

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8 Winter Care Tips for Backyard Chickens

The winter months can be a time of colder temperatures and dry, dark days. Keeping backyard chickens safe and healthy during the winter months can take some special care.

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Beat the Winter Blues with Backyard Birding

Look! Listen! Identify!

Backyard birding tips for beginning and advanced birders. Includes bird feeding, attracting birds, and other information.

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Backyard Birding Winter Checklist

It is important to feed birds all winter long, providing an oasis for all species, whether migratory or not. The birds will thank you!

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DIY Holiday Wreath Bird Feeder

This holiday wreath bird feeder is a great gift option for the bird watcher in your life, or you can keep it for yourself and feed the birds in your yard.

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4 Ways to Celebrate National Bird Feeding Month

Burr! It's Cold Outside!

Participating in National Bird Feeding month will help wild bird populations survive winter and provide you some entertainment in your yard.

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10 Tips for Keeping Backyard Chickens

10 Tips for Keeping Backyard Chickens

Keeping backyard chickens is a popular hobby across the United States and throughout the world. For some, they are pets.

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DIY Thanksgiving Wreath for Wild Birds & Squirrels

DIY Thanksgiving Wreath for Wild Birds & Squirrels

Get started with our easy, step-by-step instructions for this DIY Thanksgiving wreath bird feeder.

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Backyard Birding Bingo Game

This Backyard Birding Bingo game is a great way to keep your kids and grandkids entertained while also getting them engaged with nature.

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Backyard Birding Fall Checklist

As a backyard birder, you’ll see the change in seasons throughout the upcoming fall months and there are some things you can do to help your feathered friends.

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DIY Halloween Bird Feeder for Fall Backyard Birds

Fall is the time of year when the leaves change, the weather cools down, and birds start their migration south. As birds migrate, they will be fueling up and making stops along the way.

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Birding Basics for Wild Birds

It’s colorful. It’s educational. It’s birding!

Watching and feeding wild birds, or birding, is America’s second most popular outdoor pastime (after gardening). Attracting these beautiful creatures to your yard is easy, and it can make you more aware of your environment.

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10 Common Backyard Birding Mistakes

Common Backyard Birding Mistakes to Avoid

Attracting birds to your yard can be entertaining and fun, but common mistakes can prevent birds from coming to your feeders.

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10 Fun Facts About Migrating Birds

As Spring Approaches...

Birds will be migrating all around the world to return home. They are leaving their winter homes and traveling back to your yard.

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Beginning Birder

If you are a beginner...

If you are just beginning to feed Song Birds, it is best to start by resisting the temptation to purchase the least expensive food and feeders available.

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Intermediate Birder

You have some experience being a Birder, now what?

Once you have begun to feed Song Birds, you can greatly enhance your experience by adding suet feeders, pressed cakes, bells, and bird specific mixes to your backyard.

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Advanced Birder

Advanced Birders really take birding to the next level

Advanced Birders are likely to have a dozen or more feeders in their backyard including all sorts of shapes, types, and sizes. These birders have learned that a backyard designed with the right types of trees, flowers, etc. will keep the Song Birds coming year round.

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Backyard Enthusiast

We have answers to your wild bird questions!

Wild Bird watching and feeding, or “birding,” is most enjoyable when you are able to attract a large number and variety of wild birds to your backyard.

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Bird Watching

Helpful Birding Tips

A fun aspect of feeding birds is learning what wild birds are visiting your backyard habitat. Identifying wild birds can be rewarding and exciting for you and your kids.

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Bird Behavior

Watching bird behavior can be one of the most rewarding past times. Not only does it help with identification but it also teaches the natural history of the bird.

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