How to Attract Tufted Titmouse

You are likely to see Tufted Titmice in southern Michigan, Maine, eastern Nebraska, Texas, and central Florida. The Tufted Titmouse is the largest in the titmice family. Its habitats include swampy woodlands and urban trees.

These birds are friendly and fun to watch as they hunt for insects on the ground and in the trees.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Yard, garden with trees and bushes
• Peanut butter, sunflower seeds, shelled peanuts, suet
• Grapes and apples (optional)
• Hopper or platform feeder

1. Titmice vary their diet when not many insects are available during winter. Tufted titmouse enjoy eating seeds, berries, acorns, nuts, and suet. They love sunflower seed, too.

2. Throughout the year, particularly in winter, hang hopper feeders near trees with black oil sunflower seeds and shelled peanuts. You can also put out grapes or apple wedges on a platform feeder. Peanut butter is extremely tempting to them, smear it on a tree trunk or on a platform feeder.

3. 
   Common backyard bird

   Place nesting boxes mounted about 6-12 foot above the ground in your yard where there are trees. From March to July is when breed, so make sure that they see the birdhouse. In a suet holder, stuff some nesting materials and hang it near the birdhouse.

4. 
   Tufted titmouse

   To attract more of these birds, add trees and bushes to your garden. Good choices are oaks, evergreens, grapes, bayberries, blueberries, blackberries, and sunflowers.

Tips & Warnings

• Titmice are extremely vocal species of birds. Their noisy high pitched voice is easily recognized as in: "Peter, peter, peter", or "petoy, petoy, petoy".

Resources

• Information on Tufted Titmice

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on 1/27/2009 Titmice are so sweet. They are a favorite visitor to your feeder.