Backyard Birds

Winter Feeding Helps Attract Wild Birds to Your Backyard

Many gardeners are bird lovers and for good reason! Birds are important predators of insects that damage our gardens during the growing season. They also provide us with beauty and amusement during the cold winter as they flock to our bird feeders. Birding as a hobby currently ranks second only to gardening as America’s favorite […]

September and Goldfinches

September is a big month for the goldfinch.  Their numbers should be increasing daily as fledglings emerge from their nests.  Your feeders filled with nyjer and sunflower chips will be busy with lots of these little birds jockeying for position.   They will also eat coneflower seed heads (sunflowers, thistle, asters) well into the winter months, […]