Bird Feeding Tips

Besides attracting birds to your bird houses, you may want to feed the birds in your backyard. Feeding the birds each day is also a way to attract birds so they will see the newly placed bird house! You should get bird seed specific enough for the types of bird you want to attract to nest in the bird house or bring to your yard.

1. Chickadees, Titmice, Cardinals, Nuthatches: black-oil sunflower seed, suet, safflower seed.
2. Doves, Pigeons: cracked corn, millet, milo.
3. Jays: Red milo, sunflower seed, milo, suet.
4. Juncos and Sparrows: white millet.
5. Finches: thistle seed (also called "niger"), sunflower seed, safflower seed, millet.
6. Hummingbirds: sugar water. You can make this by mixing 1/4 cup sugar with 1 cup water and boiling it. Let this cool before pouring it in the hummingbird feeder.
7. Woodpeckers: suet, sunflower seed.
8. Mockingbirds, Bluebirds, Robins, Orioles: fruit, such as apples, raisins, bananas, currants and for Orioles, orange slices and suet.
9. Sparrows, Blackbirds: sunflower seed, corn, millet.
10. Tanagers: suet.
11. Indigo Buntings: sunflower seed, millet, thistle seed.
12. Grosbeaks: sunflower seed, safflower seed.