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Benefits Of Birdfeeding
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Posted 6 months ago There are several benefits to birdfeeding: You are helping the birds Your kids get to see some wildlife before all that's left of it is in books or on the internet Has been proven to lower stress levels and overall blood pressure. It can/will attract a variety of wildlife to your yard (My count so far this year is 1 deer and a wild turkey hen) What have you found to be a benefit of birdfeeding? |
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| Posted 6 months ago I love feeding the birds in my yard. I've got dozens of cardinals, blue jays, woodpeckers, pine siskins, tit-mouse, sparrows, blue-birds, blue gross-beaks, doves, grackles, yellow finches, purple finches, house wrens and a few I haven't identified yet. It's really great seeing the beautiful colors and how they interact... who's who in the "pecking-order" so to speak. |
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| Posted 6 months ago Yes, it is! I finally got some of my "kids to ground feed on my patio while I sit on the porch steps. It's so easy to lose track of time watching them! What kind of area are you in? You have bluebirds? I'm in a suburb, with woods behind property, and a county park not too far away, and I haven't had any bluebirds yet. But I HAVE had a pileated woodpecker and a rose breasted grosbeak! |
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| Posted 6 months ago We've got 10 acres about 3 miles out in the country. (I put my list of birds in the other thread.) |
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| Posted 6 months ago St. Francis of Assisi stated, "that blessed are those who love all God's creatures, great and small." I love birds and like to see them at the feeders I had in our front garden. Unfortunately, the local cats found it convenient to start raiding as well. I still feed them but don't put the feeders up where I had them before. |
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| Posted 6 months ago Mothballs are a pretty good way to keep cats out of areas you don't want them in. I use them around the bushes by my front door. Also, a bb gun shot over or to the side of them a few times generally drives them away. It's worked for me. And I NEVER try to hit them. Had one accidental hit when I forgot to allow for wind speed and direction. Cat was not hurt. |
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| Posted 6 months ago queencalgon says ...
I'm in the pine-woods of east Texas. Parks are great for the birds even in suburbs and urban areas... brave little suckers! I have two bluebirds that come to my home each year. They take up a place on the north side of my house... oddly enough almost all the rest of my managarie come to the thicket on the south side of the house. My front yard (west side) is the "playground" for many of them but the robins are beginning to come in and hunt the grasshoppers and worms. |
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| Posted 5 months ago I'm starting to get more robins, too. Also just found out I have a few breeding pairs of red winged blackbirds! |
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| Posted 5 months ago We have a small backyard, in the city but near the river, that is about 300 square feet. We feed squirrels squirrel chow, and the birds will eat the corn and seed left over. They will eat right next to each other. Squirrels BTW are NOT all cute and cuddley creatures. They'll scrap over peanuts and sunflower seeds. No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it. - Theodore Roosevelt (Jan. 1904) |
