Is The Summer A Slow Time At The Bird Feeder?

Your Bird Feeder

In the summer, birds are busy raising young and try to remain hidden as much as possible. The waterfront — with its waders and shorebirds — is usually the best place to be during the summer if you want to see birds.

The so-called ‘slow season’ isn’t so slow

Part 1 Of Birds At Bird Feeder

Bird Feeder

Observation of morning activities at the elevated bird feeder in our back yard. Visitors include adolescent starling and bluejays, grackles and dove.

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Your Bird Feeder Will Determine The Birds Who Will Visit

Your Bird Feeder

And you can increase the number and variety of birds by putting out additional feeders with different kinds of food.

Your feeder can decide your birds

Suet Bird Feeder To Keep Starlings Away

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Chickadees, woodpeckers, titmice (like the bird above) and nuthatches are considered “clinging type birds” and can easily hang upside-down to get access to food. Starlings, grackles and crows have a tougher time with that. There are suet feeders that are designed to with that in mind, called (remarkably enough) upside down suet feeders.

Starling & Grackle Bird Feeding Tips

 

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