How to Feed Wild Birds, Best Bird Seed We Feed Tons Daily To Attract Insect Eating Birds to a Garden
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2019
- How to feed wild birds with the best bird seed. We feed 1000's of Birds here daily. I have nature keep our Vegetable Garden nearly Pest Free, I feed the wild seed eating birds, that bring in Orioles, Mocking birds the Song birds and more clear the insects for us, they nest here and have babies, and keep our garden free of so many worms, pest and insects. No insect spray or powders, no chemicals, all done by the birds, as Mother Nature intended. With all the hummingbirds feeding here daily, the insect eating birds coming in and the seed eaters, we have 1000's of birds here daily feeding.
I have been buying the bird seed from Costco for years. It's the Wagner's western regional blend. I have hundreds of birds and never see dead birds anywhere. The number of birds seems to increase all the time. I go through 40 pounds of seed every three weeks. They eat everything in the mix including the sunflower shells. I have many mourning doves, quail and sparrows. I am in the Southern California Palm Springs area. I throw the seed out and the birds ground feed. I do not put it in containers. The seed is gone within two hours. I throw the seed out on clean dirt areas. I also have 15 hummingbird feeders each one has 10 feeding ports and on busy days have a bird on each port, sometimes two birds sharing a port. I make my own nectar and go through 20 to 30 pounds of sugar a month. I have never had a problem with the bird seed from Costco and it is more affordable than pet store seed.
If you throw on the ground don't you get critters, roaches, rats?
The hawks will feed on the rodents if they come . Circle of life and everything needs to eat . I hate pesticides. Bugs and things are here as food for birds as well. Think about that 🤔
You have the best heart to buy the seeds for pet birds! It's like all the wild birds are your pets. Love that!
This malaysian lady enjoys all of ur videos n I use tips . You make gardening so easy . Tq so much
Robbie, I saw one of these nature bird feeder companies mix chili pepper into suet and then mix in the seeds.
Birds can't taste capsaicin but squirrels and others can. Bark Butter, that's what they call it. Supposed to be
it's good to feed this in the summer too.
I was feeding suet with seeds last year in those hangers. The Redwing blackbirds were feasting away but
they were messy. The wood pigeons would eat whatever fell but it still attracted rats. Given that the rats
ate my neighbours chilipeppers in October, I doubt that chili seasoning works longterm.
Today I'm putting up the Hummingbird feeder again. See what happens.
I am on the east coast. I have been really enjoying feeding my yard birds.....and the squirrels! I just love the squirrels! I now can feed them by hand...its so cool..
they are very gentle! This spring I am going to try to feed from my lap or from my shoulder....I can't wait! Thank you for your info-packed video!
I believe you when you talk about the squirrels...squirrels in my yard come out of the trees with tool belts and learned how to operate my kid’s Tonka Trucks. That one squirrel that plagues me must be the site foreman...hard hat and clipboard. 🥴🥴🥴👍🏼
I wish you were my neighbor. You are so nice..
Thank you so much, Robbie
You inspire my family so much Robbie. Thank you!!!😘🧚♀️
Great Info: been buying 50 pound sack black sunflower seed takes six months to use up. I have been buying farm feed grade seed. The suet I make my own proper beef fat from prime rib for example, peanut butter, good seeds, (milo or millet ) I form it in a wax or parchment paper lined aluminum pie tin as a mold. During winter months birds nibble on it.
Summer is the scarce time for food in my opinion
So much good info... I’m just starting this process and I see it working!! I had no idea the hummingbirds ate aphids etc. wow!!
Wow! Excellent. Thank you so much. I learned so much from this video!
I have 2 seed feeders here in Denver Colorado. One has black oil sunflower seeds, and the other has Safflower seeds. My finches love both, along with thistle seed in a mesh sock. 💜🕊💜
I have just put out de-icers for my fountains to keep them from freezing so my birds will have fresh running water all winter. I have bought my seed from the pet store as well as our local feed store. In that, I put out a feeder with black oil sunflower seed, a Nyjer sock with Nyjer seed for the finches, another feeder is a suet cage where I have made a brick of food which is bird seed mix mixed in with peanut butter, which they absolutely love!!! Also a handful of whole peanuts in a shallow terra cotta pot in the crook of a tree for the scrub jays, stellar jays and the wood peckers! All of the seed is gone in one day and I refill daily.❤️
I find your bird videos so relaxing! Thank you for filming!
More to come on birds, thanks, Robbie
Yes more birds thanks for a awesome video
Just love the birds and boy are their numbers building, thanks, Robbie
Nice to see the differences in birds from one coast to the other. I live in Maryland and back up to the woods, 150 ft trees. We also feed the birds year round. Lots of incredible woodpeckers. My favorite being “Woody Woodpecker”. They come right up on my deck and eat the suet all winter long. They can eat a lot of suet 😀 I do put my peanuts in a cage after reading some of the birds could have trouble with swallowing them whole. Not sure if that is true or not. The woodpeckers love to cling on the cage and eat away. I love it when the birds bring their babies up on the deck and show them how to eat from the feeders. Cardinals, Blue Birds, Cat Birds, and the little guys all squeaking for mom and dad to feed them, so precious. I feed the shelled sunflowers in my deck so there is no mess and everyone eats them up, even the Yellow Finches and Blue Birds. We have the sweet Doves that come to the platform feeder. So many beautiful birds!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
It is true. Baby robins were dying because the parent birds were bringing them to them whole and they were choking to death.
I use a peanut cage and chop some for my Carolina Wrens. I'm in Ohio.
Also use bird peanuts to avoid the virus that doesn't harm humans but kills birds dead. Human consumption peanuts are not tested; bird peanuts are supposed to be tested. Buy from a reputable dealer.
So fun, we all have so many different types of birds as well as they can feed different too, the only birds that even take the peanuts out of the bowls are the scrub jays, they love their peanuts, thanks for sharing all this, take care, Robbie
Thank you so much for everything you’re sharing about birds and they food, you really got me into. Today I bought birds houses, birds feeders, hummingbirds feeders......lots of seeds, dry worms, I ordered some orioles feeders ...and guess what, today ,my balcony was full of birds ? Thank you so much again!💐💐💐
Thank you for your Awesome tips. We have lots of Doves they love cracked corn to. ✝️💟
Robbie, I just love birds too.
I’m filling my land with a permaculture food forest which includes tons of fruit trees.
People ask me “why so many fruit trees, what are you going to with all that fruit”?
To share with the birds if corse!🌸 🐣🦉🐥
Exactly! I planted two apple trees for the deer, not a morsel left. I wish I had more Sun, I'd plant peaches and pears for me to eat but the deer and other critters get the apples. Now I'm Momma to the birds. I can't convince the squirrels to leave their seed alone. I guess they have to eat too. lol
The issues with the bird food were 8 years ago, and are no longer happening. I buy commercial bird seed and our birds are thriving. I do buy most of my feed at a farm store.If you buy a mix, avoid anything with milo/red milo. It's cheap filler and most birds won't eat it.
Safflower seed works well to discourage the squirrels, who aren't discouraged by baffles, . "squirrel proof" feeders, or "hot" mixes. I have had some success with liquid hot pepper, but it's expensive and hard to use. I am currently experimenting with red pepper powder (you can buy it in bulk in Asian food stores), and canola oil to keep it clinging to the seed!
Goldfinches (at least here in the east) love nyjer seed, hung in sock bags. They cling to the bags to eat, and we often see 4-8 of them at a time. House finches like it too!
Love this video. Thanks
Your photography is amazing Robbie. Thank you so much
That was so informative, Robbie. Thank you, so very much for all the info. I will put out some more bird feeders now!!
Thank you for the educational video. 😁👍🐦
You are so knowledgable! Thanks for sharing your tips!
I just seem to learn things that I am only interested in, thanks, Robbie
Awesome video. Thanks.
Thank you for this video!
All the birds that visit your garden are just gorgeous! I really love your video clips of them eating the seeds you put out for them 😊
Love you information about seed ' thank you. Birds...Barbie.
Your videos make me so happy I get excited just like you over the birds
I'm so glad! So we both just love birds and nature, that is wonderful, thanks so much!
Such wonderful information!!! Thank you so very much! I’m pretty new to gardening but have been taking care of my backyard animals for years. I learned so very much, and I will not buy crappy birdseed ever again! Thank you!
My mother loves bird's so much her name is Robin love ya
So cool! Love her name, thanks, Robbie
Robbie and Gary Gardening Easy thank u I subscribed to you when I learned how to make the hummingbird food my hummingbirds have multiplied every since I followed your recipe and me and my mother love to sit and watch our hummingbirds when they come and feed and perch she tells me about hers and I tell her about mine and we stay on the phone for a long time just talking about them thank u for all u do ur very sweet
How do you keep the feeders from blowing away?
We've found that the finches love thistle, but we learned to ONLY buy from a nearby wild bird store that guarantees no pesticides. They love it.
We have to have sooooo much seed, we do keep it outside near our feeders. We have been using a metal garbage can with cover that we bought new, just for this purpose, and we bungy cord the top to secure it. So far, not even the racoons have been able to get into it.
Love your garden.. it’s my dream backyard!!
Beautiful. Thank you for all the information. 💕 Your birds are gorgeous. I feed birds myself. 💕
I love birds very much. Your nature around- wonderful
Thanks you helped the birds in my area a lot🙏🏼
Wow...I'm about a 3 month viewer...I luv your videos...this one is soooo full of info..luv your way making their seeds...
Robbie u absolutely ROCK 💯!!! So glad I found ur channel!!!
Thank you so much Robbie for all the nice advice that you gave to us .You are a very good person and sure that God bless you .You love so much animals like we do here .I hope you have a million's of subscription
Never thought wild bird seed could cause such problems. A park area is next to my apt. Building. So 2 practice my photography is helpful, but want to feed them healthy ingredients. Thank you for your guidance . You have a nice yard.
First of all, I want to say I really enjoy your videos. I love my flowers and vegetable garden. I also love feeding the birds. My wife and I live in Indiana. We live in the country, and have a big variety of birds. We usually feed just black oil sunflower. We feed the finch and indigo bunting niger seed. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, great content.
Thank you , lots of great information!
Thank you, Robbie
i took in a finch a couple months ago.... he was super cute, sadly he was sick, he died, but he died with love, and in peace, and in a warm place.... ever since then i just been feeding finches
Thank you Robbie! I always enjoy your information great 👍
What an amazing Video. I think on your side of the pond What you call Gold Finches is very different to our Gold Finches, wow what a nice little bird. I grow tons of thistles for my bees. and to stop them spreading and becoming a nuisance we harvest all the seeds and what we do not re sow we feed to the Birds and they go barmy for the seeds in winter, Gold finches,Green finches linnets sparrows pigeons all seem to love them. You are so right about feeding different things to different birds.
Your channel is so beautiful im up to 16 feeders now I love every bird I see. Thanks for the info... from another southern Californian
WoW, and in snow now, I will stick to lower ground, and when the snow melts I will send your birds home, Thanks so much, Robbie
I love this woman like was a really cool Aunt or something... I'll sit and just absorb her videos 👏👏👏👏👏👏🤠💘🤙👍🙌
Hi Robbie, great video, great tips, great garden, great personality. Thank you from central Canada.
Auntie Pati tells me to feed our creatures dollar tree peanuts...... Her squirrels.... Doesn't matter. But... The fancy raccoons....aren't they all so precious? 😊
Love your videos. This one was great. I am from NH so I do use suet i the winters.
Love your show.
Pipi , thanks for the suggestion..... will consider
What a beautiful video!
Thank you sweetheart ❤️
SO fun, thanks, Robbie
After my cats passed away, I thought, well - I can feed birds now! I LOVED it! ...until I found out that - what the birds miss, the rats come for. Dang iT! Sticking to hummers now.
Yuck 🤢
Hi Robin...our robins already left end of August along with my magnificent Ruby throated hummingbirds, blue jays, and our Monarch butterflies. I envy your sunny southern California. I have lived in Toronto (Canada) swinging from minus 40 degrees Celsius (- 40 Fahrenheit)to unbelievable plus 43 C (110 Fahrenheit) in summer (that's a phenomenal 150 degree change each year.)
Thankyou so much
I actually have seen golden finches at my bird feeder but it only happened once a year. This was in South Georgia.
Some species of Goldfinches will feed from feeders, the ones here prefer green seeds, Robbie
I have about 11 yellow gold finch eating at one 4 post shepherd hook everyday. They love thistle. I buy food specifically for finches. I buy so much variety then make my own mix. This way all the variety of birds have what they like in all my feeders. I’m in south west North Carolina.
Thank you Robbie ,I'm here in Virginia. I get Chickadees Blue Birds, Redbirds, meny others .I just purchased a bag of [ premium Song Bird food .has fruit and nuts in it from Wallmart.
Cool ❤️
Great camera work. I have never seen a spice finch! Love your videos. 💕
I keep my seed outside with tight metal-lidded galvanized cans. Nothing gets in or out. Right now I just have one tube feeder that I fill with sunflower chips that I buy at a feed store in 50# bags. Thanks for the tips on what you feed your birds. I'm going to try some bowls like you have and I'll make sure to bring them in at night. I mostly get house finches and goldfinches. I have seen a rat scarfing up the sunflower chips that get thrown to ground occasionally. I definitely don't want to encourage rats, ugh! I also have lots of squirrels. The squirrels can't get to the hanging bird feeder. The squirrels will eat what gets thrown on the ground also. They are getting lots of peanuts from somewhere. I find peanuts planted in all my pots. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge.
Absolutly nice kakaak good garden will you want make agood aviary for breding all sweet bird so sweet alright😊👍mister
They love the suet in spring till babies leave nest,woodpeckers love it , pepper suet they love 👍
My pet birds get human veggies broccoli lettuce boiled eggs almost any veggies fruits they love apples sweet ones and they love flax seeds good luck🙂
Going to add peanuts for the birds, thanks Robbie!! Great info as always. Blessings to you and Gary, and much love. 🤗💖🐦
There is a warning about a certain virus that kills birds but not humans. Bird peanuts are supposed to be tested for this virus. As the virus does not harm humans at all our peanuts for human consumption are not tested. Please buy bird peanuts from a reputable dealer.
Also put in a peanut feeder. If you have robin's they will take full-size peanuts to their babies and their babies will choke to death. I use a peanut feeder in summer or chop the peanuts down.
They can be put out whole in winter as there are no babies in winter, but, Carolina Wrens in the eastern US need them chopped.
Thanks, Robbie
@@jenniferrice5877 I only buy peanuts from the grocery store, and if in doubt, buy roasted peanuts, they will eat that too, Thanks, Robbie
Great video.
I learned so much. Thank you. I'm going to refill our bird feeder today by buying some pet seeds. We have 1 squirrel that comes around too. No hummingbirds came by this year though.
I just made a feeder and put the video up on RUclips that the squirrels do not get into, you can easily make one and try it out, thanks, Robbie
Those spice finches are ADORABLE! I've never seen one before. We have a good feed store here in our valley, so I'll go tomorrow and check out their prices. A 25 pound bag, for me, would be GREAT!!!!!
Thank you, I would love to visit your wonderland. But I understand privacy issues. Enjoy watching your videos.
In New York the gold finches do eat the black oiled sunflower seeds. That's 90 percent of what I buy because that's what they like. Once in a while I buy Walnuts, pecans, and peanuts for a treat. Yes, the squirels love it too, but I don't mind. They have to eat too. They're God's creature's too. LOL
I live in the Northeast; homemade suet in the winter is great, also pine cones smeared with peanut butter and parakeet seeds is also a wonderful winter treat. You can buy pine cones but take a walk in the woods and pick your own up off the ground. Pine cone size does not really matter. Tie the pine cones with heavy twine or fishing cord and hang in trees, if you have Shepard’s hooks, tie the cones there.
I recently found your channel, and have enjoyed your video . You have inspired me to do some outdoor work to enjoy the birds and other wildlife.
We have 2-3 squirrels that eat the sunflower seeds and leave rest of mix for the birds. Have to get a hanging feeder. You have lots of larger birds. We get blue Jays, doves, Cardinals, finches,sometimes woodpeckers in fall. Thanks for info.
Thank you! (:
Hehe - when we were living in Washington state we had a black bear stand up and get into our bird feeder! They do like bird seed, and so did the deer.
Great info! 👊🏻😎👊🏻
Thanks! Take care!
Yay, just got an idea for a tree stump in my yard :-) ,
Hi madam, I am from 🇮🇳, I am Sunil Bhakta. I had been watching your videos, it's really cool and awesome. Thanks for it.
Also my dogs has a water bowl and turtle sandbox that I clean and just added water too. 2 out 3 of my dogs love the turtle sandbox that I call the turtle pool. The bird love these 2 container for water. I'm also seen frog underneath and swimming in the turtle pool but only seen them in dog bowl water. I love watching bird dive in for drink in morning outside my kitchen window which hard to do to high of where the window is.
You can get red pepper suet off Amazon, love your videos ,gets real cold here on AshevilleNC, HUMMERS LEAVE till spring 🦋🍲🦋
It's a little more costly but I started buying sunflower hearts. This reduces the waste and the birds can sit and eat more thus increasing my viewing pleasure.
Hi robbie iam Alem from australia i just want to say you are very lucky with how much birds in your garden i hardly see any in mine
"Nutritionally, it is perfectly fine to give your birds an occasional piece of bread. If you do feed bread to your birds, be sure that it is not moldy, as some bread molds are toxic to birds. Also, do not put out more than the birds will eat, as it will mold quickly." I stopped feeding bread to birds years ago.
We have squirrels and chipmunks here so my feeders were always baffled. We also have hawks so having feeders in a more protected area was always a "must".
You are right bread is great if they want it, I put it out, and it was left in the bowls, so here I stopped, as a kid I always fed the wild birds bread.....maybe our wild birds are spoiled and only want seed, oh well, thanks, Robbie
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy my brother and I used to leave cheese out for mice.
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy Or maybe they know the stuff bread is made with is now full of chemicals.
@@justbeachy2031 LOL too cute!
@@priscillaross-fox9407 I think they simply do not know what bread is and they have better stuff to eat, so they skip it, just a thought, Robbie
We lost one seed feeder to bear last spring. This winter the raccoons ate everything thing hanging up side down from the feeders! It was hilarious. We don’t leave any seed out any more.
There has to be a way to fix that issue.....
Do ya think that the feed their given the birds back East might have something to do with the Birds dyen off back there? Sure do like the way you love them birds. You're a good young lady. thank you.
Most of my birds love sunflower seeds and I feed the smaller birds Niger seeds
That is perfect! Take care, Robbie
So jealous
I want to visit
I can’t do hardly any of this because I live in Chicago northwest suburbs
Good job
Love your videos
I feed nijer seed, safflower seed and black striped sunflower seeds.
The house sparrows and starlings dont eat or enjoy any of the seeds.
I also have Oriole feeders, hummingbird feeders and a platform feeder for mealworms. Along with suets.
I have goldfinch, house finch, rose breasted grosbeak, nuthatchs, titmouses, a few tree sparrows are still hanging around. Wood peckers when I put suets out.
I trap house sparrows and dont have that many since I stopped feeding seed mix. I also only have starlings on me suets when i put them out.
I live near st. Louis Missouri.
Thanks so much for editing in the examples! And for the great info and recipe.
You are a garden genius. The knowledge is woven into intricate lace but for those who can grab ahold of the thread, the story is invaluable.
I DIDNT KNOW THAT ROBBIE, THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME
Shopping tip for people near Walgreens. They sell 1lbs for $1.99 unsalted peanuts with their own “Nice” brand. A store will fluctuate the prices to be on sale once every two to three weeks.
Very good
Twenty one minutes is not short😆 love your videos ❤️
I love how you love and get excited about your birds. I love birds also, but we habe a cat that kills yhem which really upsets me. Im tring to come up with a way to feed and protect thrm. If you have any ideas please share with me.
I have hung out small logs with 2" holes drilled into them and stuffed them with peanut butter and see mix in the winter instead of the store bought suet. I just didnt like the ingredients I saw, and the peanut oil provides a source of fat for them in the winter. I thought only the wood peckers would go for it, but my chickadees and other birds went for it as well. I found that more birds hung around in the winter as well, which is great here in the North East when most of them fly south.
Hello. I love your videos!! What is the plant that the goldfinches are eating on?? I’m in Northern CA. hopefully I can grow it here?
I love the Scrub Jay!
So I can grow fresh bird seed into plants? Wow!!!
Hi! I'm a new subbie. Love the birds! I'm in NorCal, & have found that birds go gaga for black oil sunflower seeds. They have a higher fat content. Also, if you want to see Oak Tits, put out some black thistle seed. They live at the tops of oak trees & are very shy. They're a tiny grey bird with a mohawk. At first they'll dart in & out to grab the seed, but as they get comfortable, they will stick around & hang with the other birds. Black thistle seed is pricey, but 1 pound goes a long way. Our local feed store carries it.
That tiny grey bird with a Mohawk is probably a Tufted Titmouse 😎
Seeing as how I used the black oil sunflower seeds to coax them down from my 300+ year old oak tree and I was able to view them from 3 feet away, I was able to identify them. They are oak tits. We were also able to spot many migratory species normally not seen in suburbia because our yard is a wildlife corridor across the valley between 2 preserves.