How to Attract Birds to Your Garden-Tutorial
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Have you ever wanted to know how to attract birds to your garden? Our experts at Vinehouse Farm have put together this video to show you what types of bird to expect in your garden and how you can feed them.
This video acts as a bird feeding tutorial, teaching you how to find out what types of food birds eat by just looking at their bills, as well as giving you tips on how to attract birds to your garden throughout the year. With beautiful videos of birds singing, eating, and flying, you can enjoy the natural sights of the common and less common birds that you will be able to find in your garden.
If you have ever wondered why husk free bird feed mix is better to use than others you may find in shops, you can have all of your questions answered in this video. Whether you are a newcomer or an expert, these top tips give an illustrated guide to how to attract birds to your garden.
In this video, we cover:
- The positioning of feeders to ensure that all species can get food
- Type of feed
- The safety of birds in your garden
- The maintenance and hygiene of feeders
- The best feeders for keeping out unwanted animals such as squirrels.
Feel free to post your comments and questions below regarding feeding birds in your garden and the feeders that you can use. You can subscribe to our channel to find out more information regarding the wildlife in your garden by clicking here goo.gl/wiBZTD
Anybody here in 2024.? Love birds
Yep❤ got a bird feeding station, and two bird boxes, we have a couple of blue tits nesting. It was my valentine's present 🐣🐦
Seen coal tits great tits and siskin so far so lovely
I'm new here. It's my first time. I love birds
Yes I'm here. We used to feed the birds until we caught a rat in the squirrel proof feeder. Stopped after that.
Me
this video started me on my birding interest, watched it around 3 years ago now I'm a photographer. I'm 13 and have seen many birds so so many.
I would like the narrator to read me a bedtime story
LOL wolly
me too.
Me too
Proper English that flows when we'll spoken. Seems so rare now days.
Whatever they’re paying her it’s not enough. Could listen to any random thing with her narrating for hours.
During this lock down, NOTHING gives me greater pleasure of going down the allotment filling up the feeders then sitting and watching my visitors, there are dozens of species . The best relaxation therapy I know. Love this video, in love with the voice as well.
Happy chappy, good on you.
Yeah you could get a piece of paper and write down the names a d try to find individuals.
Good on ya sirr 👌
@@wildlifespotlight511 or what ive done in past is search the colours and add bird to see results lol xD
Hi~We have some free bird feeders(US) and would like to find people who are interested in them to test them, if you are interested you can contact me, thanks!
The virus is getting me new hobbies
V nice
same
Same
Yep just bought one last week but sadly no birds came yet 😭
Same lol
It's three in the morning while I'm procrastinating on homework by watching the proper way of attracting birds. What am I doing.
Cudket lmaoo
I see no problem here. :-)
Have you finished your homework 2 years later?
Cudket d
Cudket how to make bird feeder
You know you are getting old when you watch videos of bird feeders every day and night.
🐝🐝🐝🐦🕊️🦜
So true! I watch the birds in my garden for hours and hours, and mix it up with video’s of birds
Old at 28 😂😂😂 here i am
lol. so true. The age when you don't mind eating greens as well
I'm just 23. I just love the chirping sound of birds. Hence here
10 years ago, at 15, I was looking up make up tutorials on TH-cam. Now at 25 I’m looking these bird videos.
As the sage said " youth is wasted on the young"
Same, I’m 24 😂
I saw some small birds taking shelter from the rain on my window, it was sad to see them shelter on a short length porch so i decided to build them a proper bird house and feeder. This video has taught me a lot thank you so much! Now i'm filled with determination to help save the bird population even if its just for a few birds!
Mei Tan
You're awesome!! 😊✌💕
Mei Tan that’s really kind of you, hope you attract lots of birds
Mein Tan , complimenti, anch'io colloco mangiatoie in inverno e cassette nido nei mesi di riproduzione .
Thank you fir being a kind person, all creatures need us to protect them and be their voice, I've now become vegetarian after seeing how cruel factory farming and slaughterhouses are, animals are related with us, we need to speak up for them as well are the powerful ones, they are not....but they are soooo much nearer to God than we are.
preach
Me at 11 PM: "I should go to bed" - Me at 3 AM: "I should watch this video on bird feeders"
Me too, sleep well later on.
I absolutely adore this video - it's well-narrated, beautifully shot, and full of useful information: congratulations!
So well said.
I agree 🙂
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Is it just me or are birds and fish really cute?
WolfySnackrib666 I totally agree!!!
and have you heard a song bird singing under your window ? There is no sweeter and cuter sounds and it's full of language and meaning.
Yes I wholeheartedly agree with you, however, I think all creatures are cute, yes insects etc too. Have you seen how clever octopus are? And ants? Pigs? The list is endless, we really need to get to know and understand our animal relatives, they are all cute and beat no malice.
@@goognamgoognw6637 ...so very true, they are beautiful.
@@barbarastepien-foad4519 It's true all creatures are cute. Beside, jugement is a virtual and interested action that reflects the judge. Who are we to judge animals. But i admit you are on a higher spiritual level than me if you can find all insects cute. My list is short : ladybug is cute, a honey bee is very cute, a butterfly is cute. But no matter, i respect every living being and i find cute even a cow or a horse and yes a pig. But there are animals we love to hate : big white sharks, salt water man eating crocs, mosquitoes. And just to make my point, there exist one tropical bug that make eggs under mammal skins then the eggs larvae move to the heart and eat it causing death. That's not cute either.
My local pet store makes up a fantastic mix of seeds etc. Containing sunflower seeds, split pea, berry suet & dried meal worm all mixed in with the seed! The birds Love it.
Eve Monroe what type of feeder do you use for this mix ?
The trouble is, birds drop seeds and stuff. What happens then?--------you get rats! Trust me, I had to sop feeding the birds!
@@tojaks this comment has scared me ...now im wondering if i did the right thing getting a bird feeder ....
What a perfect diction and delightful English accent. Each syllable wonderfully pronounced.
Right. A rarity indeed on TH-cam.
I am glad it is not Australian.
@@jennaleaf8256 Why, I love Australian accents!
@@jennaleaf8256 Roit mait? lol
So true.
This lady should be the next David Attenborough
!!!! Totally agree!!! Her voice is just so clear and calming
100%
Or the next James Bond
This video is beautiful and relaxing. Narration is amazing, and very informative without being in your face or difficult to digest. The visuals are so well shot and just nice to watch even if you aren't looking to feed birds. Thank you so much!
Very informative
Thanks
Keep a good cap on plastic tube feeders as we had a bird got into one, got stuck and died
@@orweldavies1497 why are you taking the credit.
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Excellent video and I loved the close-ups of the birds. It was particularly useful to know about mealy worms as I must admit to not having tried feeding them to our birds. Rats are the main problem with the bird feeders for us - we are torn between not wanting to encourage the rats while supporting the birds.
We once had a problem with rodents climbing up a wooden pergola on which the feeders were hanging off nails we banged into the upright beams,but the problem stopped when I re-sited them as hanging feeders from the beams at the top. In the mid-winter I was filling different feeders with either seed mixes,peanuts or fat balls,and once one was emptied I'd wash it out thoroughly to get it clean and pristine before refilling and rehanging it. We'd get a lot of great tits and blue tits but also a variety of other species.
More recently we've had a problem with grey squirrels reaching feeders,and there are plenty of magpies and crows or rooks which like to inhabit the taller trees. I witnessed an amusing stand-off between an intrepid young tree-climbing cat and an indignant magpie a while back; the cat backed down eventually. The most common visitors to my garden seem to be blackbirds,whose song I love,pairs of waddling collared doves or wood pigeons and in winter a robin which loves to sit nearby whenI'm doing anything out there,in the home that I'll turn up a nice juicy worm.
I've also been trying to encourage hedgehogs,of which there used to be loads but now there sadly seem to be hardly any :-( Too many cars,too many town foxes?
Get a rat terrier dog or put out sardines for the neighborhood cats. Or borrow a mink.
@@rjjcms1 tht's so nicee!
@@thunderbird7936 Thanks.
@Strummer Edwards That's true, ha, ha, ha! Stick to the rats. Cats are much worse for birds. Solve one problem and create another. Maybe a dog will keep both cats and rats away.
the coronvirus has got me watchign some weird shit. so bored
this isnt weird its normal i think you need a doctor
I enjoyed this video SO MUCH!!! Good reminders of those of us that are already birders!!!
Hi~We have some free bird feeders(US) and would like to find people who are interested in them to test them, if you are interested you can contact me, thanks!
i like doing this very much but the problem is neighbours cats makes my backyard their hunting ground.
All my favorite birds are here love this video ❤
I tamed wild birds in 30 days - Now we live together
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Great tutorial, very specific and step by step, overall, a very very good tutorial, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes taking pictures, someone who loves gardening, or just basically anyone. Keep it up! +1 sub
I own two cats!!!! Bloody cats used to spend most of their time looking at the hanging feeders for obvious reasons.
Zeljko Trifunovic cats are very destructive to birds and are responsible for extinction of songbird. You should put a bell on your cats and don’t allow them out at night and the early hours! Be responsible please! If you are a U.K. resident it is against the law to own more than three cats per household.
Over the years I've grown increasingly fond of birds and it's interesting to note that I have seen literally every species featured in this video in close proximity to my house except blackcaps, never ever seen one. So far this year we've had wagtails, great tits, blue tits, common swifts and flycatchers nest in or around the house.
One bird I'm less fond of is the great spotted woodpecker since it regularly attacks other nests.
I like feeding birds, but the problem is I have a high wall and the birds shit all over it and everything else. >_
we demolished jungles and made houses then we complain about paint ... what kind of species we are :/
What is wrong with you? Your output of shit far outweighs the tiny bird droppings. This is manure for the soil! Birds eat all the bugs in your garden, fill your ears with symphonies of sound, fill your eyes with flashes of color and flight, fill your heart with their incredible joy at finding seed and their funny antics and little dramas, and give you affection, esp the doves. And you complain about a few droppings? I have masses of bird seed hulls to blow out and I don't mind in the least. I will feed every bird for miles around. Let them all come to me and my tranquil garden. I love them all!!! Even the squirrels, and the one brown rat who eats the seeds on the ground late at night, shyly. How much better are these friends than selfish humans?
@@lass-inangeles7564 I hope the local cats find your garden soon.
@@Skowdey Let me have your address so I can send my dogs over to deal with you, Scarecrow.
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I don't know how often I watched this video. I love this video😂
Yip, do your thing when you have the chance, big or small doesn't count, only life does
You havent mentioned Sparrow Hawks, which decimate my bird population every year. Apart from investing in an aviary, there is nothing I can do
Hello Annie how are you doing today Happy New Year 🎊 God bless you as you wish…
DONE ALL THIS AND STILL VIRTUALLY NOTHING! !!! BAD NEIGHBOURHOOD AND TOO MANY CATS,, I'D MOVE HOUSE AGAIN FOR THE 17TH TIME IF I COULD FIND SOMEWHERE BETTER AND IF I COULD GET SOME HELP AS PARTIALLY DISABLED, , PLUS CAN'T AFFORD TO 😐 I DRIVE TO THE COUNTRYSIDE TO SEE BIRDS!!! OR HERE!!!
princess heart well do you have a cat yourself? if so put a bell on the collar.Also plant lots of trees and bushes so the birds have places to hide,if you need more help just ask me ;)
Petey Piranha 68 Hello.. i live in a 3rd story apt and hung a feeder containing wild bird fdrd2.. i put on bread to get the birds attention but they ate the bread but ignored the seeds, any advice
Would love to come & see your garden but have no transport. Can you please tell me where you live so I can maybe try & find a way to get to see you, hope to hear from you soon.
Never give bread to birds, you're basically poisoning them.
What beautiful birds! So pleasant to watch!
I've been feeding birds for 2 years now. The biggest challenge here are grey squirrels. They're cute too but a nuisance when it comes to feeding birds. I developped my own design that make it nearly impossible for them to reach ny hanging bird feeder. It's basically a disc platform on top of the suspended feeder with a clever design that keeps it horizontal. When a squirrel tries to descend on it will swing sideways under the weight. it's quite an ingenious design and fun to watch. Some aggressive squirrel will still try to jump 2 meters to get to the feeder like a cliffhanger but picking an isolated tree branch has eliminated that. The truth is unless it's a caged system the only way to keep squirrels away is to feed them something separate. As soon as they run out of that food they will relentlessly try to assault the birdfeeder. They're very good learners and as is well known extremely persistent . If they succeed only one time, they will know how to forever. There was one such squirrel last year, i called him houdini, nothing could stop him. He would jump 3 meters, do impossible acrobatics. I even wrapped thorny vines around the feeder, black locust thorns 4 inch long on the feeder mounted rigidily vertically so it could not land on it. That was like nothing to the squirrel. I've seen houdini landing on these thorns unharmed. They have thick skin. Then finally i didn't see Houdini for a while. Then i saw a squirrel with wounds on the side that looked like a hawk talons and it looked infected he had lost all the fur on that side. But was still moving quick and energetically, but didn't see him more. I assume he died. The younger new generation of squirrel are much softer and tamer they are no match for the protection on the birdfeeder that only houdini could defeat, but he was really something. One day he even taunted me when i came to save the bird house that he was assaulting. These are intelligent animals and he knew well he was not wanted on the feeder . He did not run away he grunted stayed on a nearby tree only a few feet from me as if he was going to jump me and he might have if i had gotten closer. No he was not rabbid. Squrrel do not get rabbies they don't feed on dead animals and do not come in contact with any predator because they're too quick except raptors but birds do not get rabbies either. Houdini is no longer around.
Luckily for me a neighbor is feeding the new gen of squirrel so they don't bother the birds at least for now. They have a lot to learn to get anywhere close to Houdini's skills and daring.
Squirrels are lil fuzzy buggers.
What a beautifully made video, photography and narration. Love the birds.
Thank you for such beautiful and informative video!
I love watching the birds and I always look for way of attracting more and other varieties of birds!
My foster kitten 2 months old enjoyed ur video! 🐦🐾🐾❤
Hello Michele how are you doing today Happy New Year 🎊 God bless you as you wish…
i love birds, thank you so much for this vedio i really like it godblessed
Useful and informative video. No birds are interested in my nyger seeds or peanuts. Fussy little blighters 😉
😂 seems like we've all tried different things
Great video photography and brilliant voiceover. Well done
Birds will take a bath in
mud puddles and eat off
the ground and drink the
same water, so way wash everything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A lot of birds gathering in one place for an extended period of time is a perfect conduit for spreading desiase.
Suets can leave mold and fungus. Old seeds can swell and develop fungus, mold and parasites. If you dont clean out the old seed and suets the bird will eat them.
In the wild birds dont eat suets, they dont have access to seed in bulk. They dont have opportunities to eat seed in bulk.
This is excellent advice, very helpful many thanks. Beautiful video.
This is a wonderful video, even almost none of these birds (save for house sparrows and starlings) occur in the USA. Our robins are more like like English blackbirds, goldfinches are bright yellow, and we call tits chickadees.
Beautifully photographed, clear and informative. Great video - thanks!
I live in northern California. I have had beautiful gold finch for a long time but for the last two months they have disappeared. Not sure why? very disappointed.. :-(( I have nijer, black sunflower, bird bath. sunflower seeds shelled. and numerous feeders. anyone have any thoughts as to why they have absconded?
Goldfinch showed up at my feeder near seattle, I'll tell him to go home
@@mrfunball5204 Haha, thanks!
Hello Debra how are you doing today Happy New Year 🎊 God bless you as you wish…
I’m going to be a bird grandma alone with my birds and my parents
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A grandma with parents???!!!!🤯
Noice 👍🏻
ZoE ZOe well birds have offspring that grow faster than humans so you are probably going to have a few generations. And yes, I love my parents. I want to support them for everything they have done for me.
awww thats so sweet
@@articxunodorseggnej8016 you are a good person
Ps I love butter milk soaked for 24 hr fried squirrel not the birds I attract. They need the most advantage in my area over top self killing animals . For ever bird theirs one or two top shelf animals. Thanks to the state of Rhode Island and Connecticut for all the bears, fisher cats , mountain lions and coyotes . That we’re extinct till the states gave in now not even song birds are left not even nesting birds all wiped out by state control animal writes
During our winter, when birds are rare to feeders in our yard, so our two cats cannot window watch nearly as much as other seasons, I sometimes put on bird and squirrel videos such as this AND THEY LOVE IT. I get a bonus of watching the videos AND my cats watching the videos. A perfect winter morning with my coffee, loads better than morning TV, which we got rid of with cable. Now we only stream channels such as this, saving money and sanity. 🌸✌🏽😻
From watching gameplay videos, I just subscribed to a TH-cam channel that provided me very useful info on bird feeders. Damn I’m getting old.
Lol guess we all are 😂
Once a tiny little woodpecker was eating from my bird feeder it was so cute :3
I used to work in a livefood facility. So we bread mealworms, locusts, crickets etc. During the day the place was always swarming with birds eating all the inevitable escapees 🤣
We also had a robin that flew in through the warehouse doors every morning. It would sit high on the shelving and angrily whistle until we put a few mealworms out on a tray for it, it'd come over pick them up and fly out again. Did it every morning without fail. I guess all the local birds just got used to us and all the free food 😂
I’ve watched this video like 20 times over the past 4 years
same here!
@@clauciusfello1197 yay
A birds health is the birds problem. Unless it's poor human design. In short, food and water only.
Love birds. Life wouldn't be the same without them.
Would be nice and great to fly like them.... whoosh!
Thanks a lot for this plenty of information! 😊 🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦🐦
Beautiful birds. I noticed black birds have beautiful colors on their feathers, they have sharp pointed beaks to dig into grounds. Thank you.
Hello Kim how are you doing today Happy New Year 🎊 God bless you as you wish…
I have a nice sized garden, trees hedgerow etc. I decided to put 3 hanging feeders (peanut mesh, seed & a ring suet/seed feeder) and made a ground feeder from an oak tree stump - I now have blue tits, coal tits, robin, mistle thrush, blackbirds, chaffinch, bullfinch, house sparrow, collared dove, starling & dunnock feeding everyday. The thrush, robin & blue tits are all nesting in my garden now too! Thanks to this informative video. Love the ladies voice too! 😊
All the birds I have are seagulls, crows and pigeons.You're incredibly lucky!
Robins are very territorial amnd will fiercely protect their territory.Small but lethal !
I always leave a feeder in my garden but no birds come.. sad life
There is Like one million at my garden.
Is that Missus Attenborough narrating here? Amazing video, very informative, high quality visuals . It was as if I was reading a book.
I would've really liked to learn about feeding corvids in this video, shame they're referred to as "a problem". :(
To attract Corvids into your garden, simply put some hens eggs out for them, (available at EVERY shop, lol), as Magpies and Carrion Crows, like eating them,
this also helps to reduce "nest raiding" for eggs to eat, by the fore mentioned Magpies and Carrion Crows, (Grey Squirrels are also "nest raiders", not many people know that),
Corvids are "incredibly intelligent" so give them some EASY eggs to eat and they probably wont bother raiding HARD to find song birds nests, these same Corvids,
also like to eat, Pork Sausages too, (I just cut them up into tiny pieces, put them on a plastic tray and beat the plastic tray, "like some sort of DINNER GONG",
and I can virtually guarantee that the Magpies will turn up "in minutes" after hearing that, in their distinctive "dinner jackets?", UNLESS the Carrion Crows beat them to it),
Magpies are "really important garden birds" and are no way "a problem?", as they are usually the first garden bird, "to raise the alarm of the presence of predators",
like, cats, foxes, squirrels, Sparrowhawks AND Human Beings too and will confront such predators "with virtually no sense of fear too", so they basically "protect smaller birds",
I "truly enjoy" watching the Magpies in my London urban wildlife garden, while thinking "what are they getting up to today?", I have a 7 foot diameter wildlife pond in my garden,
that I specifically designed myself, to prevent all birds from using it as a birdbath, in order to prevent the arrival of unwanted viruses, parasites, etc, into my wildlife pond,
the only 2 species of bird that use this pond as a birdbath are Magpie and Carrion Crow, "now I KNOW how those really helpful Pond Snails arrived in my urban wildlife pond",
and if you would like to encourage Jays into your garden, simply put out some over ripe apples and/or acorns for them to eat, (Jays usual habitats are deciduous woodlands
and/or parks and gardens, its "quite ironic" that Jays burry acorns in the ground, to eat at a later date, if the winter is harsh, if its not, that acorn may well sprout,
to become an impressive Oak Tree, thus contributing to the expansion of the Jays deciduous woodland natural habitat, so THEY are incredibly intelligent too).
@Alter Ego What a "BIRD BRAIN" you really are.
whats wrong with letting squirrels have a bit of food?
🎶 My birds seeds bring all the birds to my yard, and they're like, it's better than yours 🎶
You can bet I don't want any aflatotoxin in my peanuts either...I'll pick up a bag at the ballpark and feed it to my birds
I started with feeling sorry for local wintering birds, so I made a feeder from a milk jug. Now with multiple feeders, suet cages, bird bath etc, I have attracted 30 species to the yard.
I see chickadees, nut hatches (red and white breasted), hairy and downey wood peckers, flickers, almost every day, certainly several times every week of the year. Spring and fall brings warblers, and finches through, as well as multiple species of sparrow. Coolest so far was a Lazuli Bunting. Such a colorful blue, manage some great photos.
Bird watching is a great hobby, and I think it is the ultimate retirement past time. Feeding, photographing, cataloging, drives in the country to observe etc etc. Together with gardening can easily be a fulltime occupation. Cheers
Magpies and street pigeons are all I get they have forced the small birds away.
Great information thanks for that love garden birds
Has anyone else noticed a dramatic decline in wild British birds? As a child I used to see so many wild birds and my Dad would always make sure they had food especially in winter. Since the winters have become milder and London has become ever more populated I just don't see wild birds anymore. I have a feeder and so does my neighbour but it's rare birds visit. I see Gold finches, robins and a few black birds but not on the scale I used to or as often. I hope people are still helping them out by feeding them as these birds have been part of Britain for 100's of years.
Lovely filming of birds and squirrels. I just wanted something soothing to watch like garden birds, as lockdown anxiety and negative news stories were getting to me.
Definitely something relaxing, no need to panic in life, just sit back and enjoy lol
In the last 3 to 4 months we've seen less activity on the seed feeders. I've gone from filling them every 2 to 3 days to once in 3 weeks.
Lots of blackbirds and ground feeders still. Any idea why the seed feeders have become so quiet?
Hello Angie how are you doing today Happy New Year 🎊 God bless you as you wish…
How can i connect with the narrator, she has a perfect voice for a documentary
I think I'd like to have feeders that squirrels can eat from, and some that they can not. I feel so bad for the squirrels when they cant get a snack!
4:09
Because why eat food the right side up when you can enjoy eating it up-side-down like a boss instead. This little guy is just flexing and having the time of his life XD
jockejocke1 😆
Wow this video is amazing and very educational!
Hello alexandra how are you doing today happy new year 🎊 god bless you as you wished….
Hi, thanks for making this video! It's by far the most informative I've seen. Very helpful :-)I've only recently become interested in birds, but they're so great to have in the garden! We get some beautiful songbirds, and sometimes a woodpecker or two. I'm glad that I've started birding, and that I've done my research on it too. I'm still a kid, so I guess it's good to start something while you're young. Anyways, thank you for your help, I hope you and your local birds are doing well!
I just started about a month ago to entertain me cats. I'm now making me own feeders and bird houses whilst hosting every bird in the northeast. Squirrels, a gorgeous hawk and one either a raccoon or a bear impersonating said raccoon
wow im so amazed.....im bird lover...so beautiful to see defferent kinds of birds...i hope i have a garden like that full of birds..thanks for the video💙💙💙
We have been feeding wood pigeons and crows for a while, living in South London, the smaller species struggle to compete with larger species, so I bought a suet feeder and now I regularly see blue tits, robins and sparrows. I didn't realise about the peanut danger to birds who can choke :( - I also going to try dried mealworms. Love watching the birds :D
Hello!
This video was really helpful to me.
Thank you
Love from India
Great information, thankyou. I am currently upping my game with feeders to attract more variety of birds to my garden. I have a small TH-cam channel called Wild Nature SouthWest, in which garden birds will be a big feature, although i do more wild locations also, but the garden is a great place to see a large variety of the songbirds. Great video, with some lovely footage of the birds.
An alternative to peanuts is peanut butter. I have a three inch diameter, eight inch long piece of wood that was cut from a broken branch in which I used a Forstner bit to drill four holes going down the wood in a zig-zag pattern. I fill the holes with peanut butter and some birds can't get enough - especially the woodpeckers.
Pro1er make sure its natural though, just in case
Wow, never thought of peanut butter, will immediately do this, thanks fir the tip xx
Please !please ! Don't give birds peanut butter they die trying open their beaks. Also no rice it swells in their craw and it burst open they die.
@@lorettamoran125 I'm not sure where you got that idea about peanut butter, but birds have tongues which helps get the peanut butter down.
www.thespruce.com/can-birds-eat-peanut-butter-4053751
www.birdsandblooms.com/birding/birding-basics/type-peanut-butter-ok-birds/
So, the crows in my garden figured out how to hang from my feeder. Then, they figured out how to pull the entire feeder off the hook it was hanging on, so that it would fall to the ground and they could clean it out. Once I started using wire to secure the feeder onto the hook, they stuck to hanging off of it. ... and now, one of the pigeons has started copying them. So I get a few crows + pigeon hanging (badly!) off the bird feeder every day, keeping the smaller birds from going near it.
I also provide the crows and pigeons their own food, but they go through it really fast. Voracious eaters, they are.
But yeah. Going to invest in a mesh all around the bird feeder that will keep some of the large birds out entirely. Last resort but that's where we're at.
Same! a crow family has moved in a tree outside my house, they eat everything even my cats food 😒
And small bird dont visit anymore
Here's what you will need if you intend to feed birds: (1) Unlimited budget----bird seed is expen$ive. If you plan on feeding birds for any length of time, you will spend money, money, money. (2) You will need state-of-the-art Squirrel-proof and Rat-proof feeders. (3) You don't really need any kind of flat table feeder or ground feeder. Birds feeding at your Squirrel-proof and Rat-proof feeders will scatter bird seed like crazy and ground feeding birds will gather under your bird feeders. (4) Buy 50-lb bags of Black oil sunflower seed and Proso millet at your local feed store. Mix just about 1/3 "Boss" to 2/3 millet. If you don't put in enough Boss, Scrub jays and Blue jays will scatter your millet ruthlessly to get at the Boss. (5) Buying in bulk is the way to go, so get those larger 50lb bags. Then, you will need moth-proof and Rat-proof containers in which to store your bird seed. Perfect for this purpose are those large (3-gallon size) popcorn tins you buy at Christmas or other times. (6) You will need nice-sized plastic buckets or bowls in which to mix your seed. Find a good plastic scoop. Rounded. Square ones don't seem to work as well. (7) You can buy specialized feeders such as the ones discussed in this video, but if the grids are large enough to let in small birds, you will have a problem with Rats. Rats can squeeze through a hole the diameter of a US quarter coin. (8) Make sure you put a baffle on any bird feeder poles and keep space cleared so that Rats can't jump onto your feeders. (9) If you do buy specialized peanut/suet feeders, remember you can't keep that suet in sunlight or it will melt away. (10) And if you buy a specialized Woodpecker feeder, don't buy a feeder made of wood because Squirrels will chew the crap out of the wood feeder holes and destroy your feeder. (11) You will have to purchase some large flat baffles to use as "roofs" to keep out rain, too, because rain will destroy the seed and make it all mildewy/moldy. I suggest largest metal baffles you can afford, the ones with a galvanized finish. They cost about $30 apiece on Amazon. (12) And please don't forget that this is a HOBBY. Birdfeeding is not only expen$ive, it takes time. Good luck hauling those 50 lb bags of bird seed around. I suggest you keep those popcorn tins full of seed in your pantry. Have fun. (13) Oh------and if you ever decide to feed Hummingbirds, DO NOT add any red coloring to your sugar water "nectar." Hummingbirds don't need red dyes in their systems. Be sure and hang your Hummer feeders in a shady area, otherwise the sun will "cook" the nectar and ruin it.
What am I doing here, I don't have a garden
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Just fantastic. Greetings from Quito, Ecuador.
Amazing birds up close, very nice! Thank you. Big Thumbs up! :))
Why not feed the squirrels as well 🤷🏻♀️
because they're territorial and will prevent birds from feeding. plus if you attract them to your yard they can try to nest in roofs and attics and will chew holes in your house. maybe you're ok with that, in that case knock yourself out :)
This birds are looking like colourful sparrows
Super helpful video--well narrated, good info, and entertaining, too. Thanks.
Hello Sue how are you doing today happy new year 🎊 god bless you as you wished….
Thank you so much for the lovely informative video. Learnt so much today :) I want more birds to visit my Garden. The Local council has given permission to builders to erect dwellings so they have destroyed the natural habitats which had been here for ages. We used to even have deer and squirrels coming to the gardens. Now they all have disappeared. I am trying to encourage at least a few species to come to the gardens.
So far, Red Kites, Starlings, Tits, Black birds,Robins, Finches, Sparrows, Collard doves, Wood Pigeons,Green and red Woodpeckers and even Malard ducks have taken an interest.
Food classification and feeder styles were very useful.. Thank you so much.
Nice to see so many bids coming to the garden tutorial. They make great students, don't they.
they are doing what is natural. we are the students,
Where I live there is no need to attract the birds, they sit and wait and chirp and sing until you fill up their feeders.
Then the squirrels show up...
In my garden the jackdaws turn up🙄🙄
beautiful video thankyou gave me plenty of ideas, love our garden birds, 😀
Feed them sunflower hearts, i get all species eating them.. the ground birds pick up the bits even robins will get to the feeders..
planting local native trees, shrubs and plants has helped me attract bids to my garden
Yes,that’s the best way
I grease my pole with vasoline and the squirrels just slide right off. No more problems!
Hello Kim how are you doing today Happy New Year 🎊 God bless you as you wish…
I enjoyed this video I watched it twice. Any bodyelse
Put a feeder on my balcony and at first got the smaller birds then the jays came along and were fighting and making a racket early in the morning. I love jays but not first thing in the morning!
I thought the title said "how to attack birds in your garden"
I love this video lot and I found it very helpful
These birds are so beautiful. Praise Lord Jesus for his creation.
Amen😇🙏🐦
thanks to evolution
Didn't his dad do the creating?
Gonna do this to get my cat something to hunt lol