Ever wonder why, despite placing and stocking your bird feeders oh-so-carefully, you’ve not had a single feathered friend in your yard? If so, you’re not alone. This is a challenge most bird lovers have faced: How can you best attract birds to your feeders?
What do you need to do to start attracting birds to your backyard feeders? How can you ensure that your feeders serve as a trustworthy and inviting food source for your feathered friends? There’s no one size fits all solution — if you want to achieve the best of results, you have to have several different components. But this is what we will be discussing in this post: turning your feeders into a constant and appealing meal for our beaked buddies.
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The first essential step in enticing fowl friends to your feeders is to become familiar with your neighborhood’s natural environment and learn about the local birds. This basic knowledge helps you get on a smoother journey much faster and speeds up your visitors with wings.
(“The only things that matter to birds: food and safety. These little creatures are just like humans, they roam the streets for food and shelters every day for mere survival. That’s why you need to focus on food and water as the first step when you want to attract birds.
So, we advise you to spend some good time of your day on the sifting of food which would be healthy and suitable nourishment for your local birds before you put it in your feeding station (Here are the Detailed guidelines on the same in the sections below). This exertion is vital to developing an inviting feeding ground for these charming animals to readily recognize.” Once they find your feeder and discover it to be a dependable food source, they are going to visit on a regular basis.
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One fun fact is that most birds have a rather limited sense of smell, so when they seek food, they can only rely on their sight — sometimes in combination with their hearing. In winter, the sound of water dripping and also the water fountain attract birds easily. So, birds are known to visit colourful plants too, discussed below in the later sections.
Bird feeders must either be located in a safe zone from predatory animals, or on various altitudes for various bird species. Because most of birds neither fly straight to a new feeder because they are cautious of coming under attack either by cats/hawks or other animals(and humans snap). They do not want to be overly exposed, so best be some coverings like trees or tall bushes around(but you want to keep the feeders away from small bushes that cats can sneak around)
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Overall, feeders must be placed 5 feet above the ground or more to avoid jumping squirrels and cats (for other reasons, read How High Should Bird Feeders Be from Ground). Tube feeders hung higher are loved by small birds like finches and chickadees while larger birds like cardinals, jays and some doves prefer the more open platform feeders. Besides that, you should also provide a standing/staging perch for the birds to rest while they take their sweet time eating. Birdfy Pro Perch Extension, Birdfy Hummee Extension
If you would like to create a natural space around the feeder that might be more appealing to the lovely attendees, be sure to plant native flora. To keep our little visitors safe, better to explore no-chemical options. That is, you can plant things that yield fruit, like cherry trees and raspberry bushes. For hummingbirds and orioles, tubular flowers such as fuchsia are recommended.
There are a lot of color theory components that go into attracting birds to your feeder, have you ever considered that the colors of the environment around your feeder can enhance or decrease its effectiveness? Part of this adventure is discovering what colors attract birds:
Vivid and right colors: Also, common sense, those that definitively capture the eye are going to tend to be more attractive to birds (i.e.; red, orange, yellow). The reason is that these colors are usually indicative of reliable food sources that keep them alive. In White[And Birdfy Hum Feeder comes in these colors and boast built-in dual-cameras.
Hummingbird Feeder
Blue: Some birds, like blue jays, actually prefer blue because they see it in nature. Birdfy Smart Feeder is a blue bird feeder and Birdfy Feeder Bamboo is a more natural choice if you would like to make your creative decorations and paint on the bamboo material.
Lights in the backdrop have been integrated for added illumination and effect.
Be sure that you use non-toxic and harmless pigments to paint the feeder with. Additionally, paintings that are light in color, as well as simple and natural will make it more attractive to birds.
As discussed above, the most crucial factor that attracts birds onto your feeder is food. This section presents you with the types of seeds that being the best for different birds’ preferences and gives you a few recommendations for how to select seeds for various times of the year.
Providing an appropriate food for the local array of birds is the baseline bar of attention for you to garner a visit. The real upside to all of this, as far as feathered diners are concerned, is to maintain bird food, fresh, not musty, rancid, deadly to birds. If no rain or snow(wet food also keeps bearing away) occurs then after two weeks replace and fill out all the bird seeds. The more your feeder can be an eternal provider of seeds, the more birds will come. Birdfy Smart Feeder and Birdfy Feeder Bamboo offer a lot of bird seeds with 1.5L(50oz) and 3L(101oz) food capacity, making it easier for birds to find and stay longer.
Black oil sunflower seed: The most popular seed type by most birds.
White proso millet: Beloved by Juncos, doves and small sparrows.
Fruit offering: For woodpeckers and robins.
Peanuts: Well liked by jays and nuthatches.
Nectars: For all those adorable hummingbirds.
Say no to those mixed seeds with a few “filler” seeds that no self-respecting bird wants to eat. Just few things related to mixed seeds you should be aware of when you put it in one feeder, sometimes some aggressive visitors may not like one or two types of seeds in the mixture. Again, those seeds may go over the edge and may not only keep the gentler of the little ones at bay (certain species of birds prefer to wait for fallen food before availing) Thus, using different feeders for different types of seed might attract a greater variety of birds to eat at once. You can also use a Birdzfly Anti-scattering Cover to minimize this phenomenon.
You should also vary types of seeds throughout the seasons in order to attract different types of feathered visitors to your space. Sunflower seed makes a great choice in summer since it does not go rancid very quickly even on hot days. During fall, birds require protein more from a mixed seeds in preparing themselves for the upcoming winter. During spring to winter, What birds need are seeds with high fat and calorie content to build energy and take better care for the baby birds.
The best time to get a bird feeder set up is mid to late autumn since most(not all) birds migrate in the fall(aside from ones we know) to find a place with vegetation, water, and food source to help them get through the harsh winter. In summer and early autumn, there are enough natural food resources for birds, which makes visiting the bird feeders placed around human habitats more difficult for them. They typically fly and look forage during day time,at morning and late in the day.
