Feeding Birds

Choosing the proper bird food can be challenging. There is a range of options to select from. One must balance nutritional concerns, quality, and price when purchasing bird food.

Hummingbirds have very simple but important dietary requirements. A healthy garden environment with a diverse variety of plants can supply these tiny birds with plenty of food. Because of the...

Hummingbirds are the smallest animal with a backbone. Only found in North and South America, hummingbirds can rotate their wings in a circle enabling them to fly forward, backward, up, down and...

Rainbow lorikeets are a tropical Australian bird, so named for for their beautifully colored plumage. Only consider owning a rainbow lorikeet if you are up to the challenge of caring for the bird....

Woodpeckers love sweet nectar, just like hummingbirds do. If you have a hummingbird feeder in your yard, chances are woodpeckers invade it from time to time. If you want to keep these pesky...

Hummingbirds are an unusual and colorful addition to anyone's garden, and people who enjoy watching them often place feeders specifically designed to attract them. These feeders can be homemade...

Hummingbirds, the smallest birds in the world, typically feed on flower nectar and spiders. Orioles will munch on insects, nectar and fruit. Setting up a feeder in your own yard can attract these...

Proper care of your humming bird feeder is essential to the health of the hummingbirds that visit your garden or patio each day. Daily monitoring of the feeder will be necessary to check for any...

Hummingbirds are fun to watch in your garden. They eat nectar from flowers and are drawn to gardens with red and pink blooms. You can attract these delightful birds to your yard even if you don't...

Many people believe that they have to take down their hummingbird feeders when colder weather approaches to encourage the tiny birds to migrate south. That's not true. Hummingbirds instinctively...

If you attract hummingbirds or are thinking about attracting hummingbirds to your yard, you need to know what hummingbirds are attracted to. Because the hummingbird has a high metabolism, they eat...

If you are battling ants on your hummingbird feeders here is a solution that is easy to solve the problem.

The Baltimore Oriole is a beautiful bird. Attracting them into your yard is actually quite easy. Read this quick article to learn the simple tricks.

Hummingbird nectar is an easy and inexpensive way to bring the beautiful birds to your yard. Hummingbirds need lots of sugar in their diet and often prefer sugar water to nectar found in flowers....

Watching the Ruby Throated Hummingbird as it drinks nectar from flowers and feeders is such a delight. I have feed many birds at my feeders including Cardinals, Goldfinches, Nuthatches and...

Hummingbirds are some of the smallest birds on earth, weighing less than a nickel and growing no more than 3 to 4 inches in length. Although small in size, hummingbirds have a voracious appetite...

Birds are amazing creatures. They fly around, survey the situation from above and really have an interesting life, if we discuss it in the human perspective. Having more birds around mean you can...

Lories and lorikeets are small- to medium-sized psittacine birds, closely related to parrots. Unlike parrots, they eat mostly nectar and pollen in the wild, along with some fruit and other foods....

Although there is no foolproof way to keep bees away from your hummingbird feeder, there are several things you can do to discourage their presence.

Orioles are beautiful, bright orange and black birds that whistle cheery notes. Orioles feed on insects, flower nectar, and fruits, but if you have a special oriole feeder they will gladly come...

Hummingbirds expend so much energy beating their wings that they need a high concentration of sugar in their food. In nature, they get their sugar from the nectar of flowers. You can make a...

You can make your own hummingbird nectar at home that will fill your yard with small, colorful birds. No hummingbird will be able to resist this nectar, so get ready for an active yard.

Hummbirds are called the jewels of your garden.