Backyard Birding – Page 8

Feeders and Feeding: Peanut Butter Suet

Help birds endure the harsh winter weather with a special treat! This recipe is popular with jays, titmice, nuthatches, chickadees, […]

A new use for PVC pipe! by A.J. Hamler, excerpted from the March/April 2011 issue of Bird Watcher’s Digest Many

Easy Drippers We know that water in motion attracts birds, and I’ve discovered an inexpensive, easy way to add a

Materials: Aluminum electrical conduit, ½-inch diameter, 5-foot length Iron rebar, ½-inch diameter, 5-foot length One hanger iron (two 7-inch strips

The Hummingbird Society – The Hummingbird Society is a nonprofit charitable organization that strives to teach about hummingbirds and works

Each spring when I pull my hummingbird feeders out of storage in anticipation of the hummingbirds’ return, the red parts

Continental East Imagine you could plant a garden so lush, green, and full of blooming things that angels would come

Conventional wisdom said to offer multiple hummingbird feeders out-of-sight from each other—perhaps a feeder in the front and the back

The Avian Nectar Feeders When the words “nectar feeder” come to mind, most people envision hummingbirds gracefully flitting around flowers

General Info The hummingbird family, Trochilidae, occurs only in the Western Hemisphere, where it is second only to the tyrant

Spring is the start of the breeding season for most of our North American birds. They pair up with mates,

I first became aware of the powers of peanut butter suet dough when Carrie Griffis of Port Orchard, Washington, sent