Back yard bird feeding?

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I have a few bird feeders in my back yard and I love feeding the birds, but I have so many doves. Is there any seed they won’t eat? Also, will red-winged blackbirds eat safflower seed? Another thing, how do I get the blue jays to come to the feeders? I have a wide variety of birds-red-bellied woodpeckers, downys, cardinals, goldfinches, hairys, sparrows, house finches, crackles, rose-breasted grosbeaks, and of course doves, but I can’t get blue jays! Any help would be appreciated.

I need to move a wild birds nest!?

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Our house is being fumigated for termites and the nest is under the balcony in an area that will be tented. I was thinking I could purchase a small wooden house and have it close to the original nest location. I will use rubber gloves when I move the nest. Will the parents go to the new site?
There are two baby birds in the nest now, and the fumigators are coming two weeks…how long before baby wild sparrows leave the nest?


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Chipping Sparrows Feeding at Bird Feeder.

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Video Clips of Chipping Sparrows Feeding, in my Bird Feeder, taken March 30-2009.

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Wild birds……?

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I have lots of wild birds in my area. Mostly sparrows. In my front yard I have a feeder, bath, and bird house. Is there anything more I can give them this spring (mating season)?


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How can i attract cardinals/blue jays over sparrows?

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i pour the bird food in the bird house. i use cardinal/blue jay bird food (Black Oil Bird Seed). my damn birdhouse is dominated by these little sparrows. the feed is for blue jays and cardinals.


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mould in a finch bird-feeder?

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I had a bird-feeder up with finch seed and holes for finch seed, and i hardly ever got any birds, but half the seed sprouted and turned mouldy. is there any way besides taking the feeder down when it rains (since if it starts when i go to work or at night i can never be sure). Is this just a bad feeder for finch seed? should i screw on the larger holes for regular seed and put regular seed into it (tho i don’t wanna feed the sparrows and cardinals… i wanna feed the singing house finches!)? it is a bad place for a feeder hanging off apartement wall but i saw 2 finches on it today, which is why i took it down just not cuz it was filled 1/2 way with mould. it was only up for 1 month! can i use this feeder at all or should i get another one? do they all do that and i should just waste seed? annoying…


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Why are the yellow finches staying away from my feeders? .?

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Used same bright yellow feeders, in same spots with fresh thistle as last year. Not a one single yellow finch has come to the feeders. A few sparrows found the one in the front of my house, but no even the sparrows are visiting the one in the backyard, and it is next to an inhabited birdhouse. What am I doing wrong this year than last? This is really causing my summer to have a kink in it. I love to watch the yellow finches feed at my feeders. Please give me suggestions as to what my problem might be. Thanks.


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If you could be any type of bird, which would it be?

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I’ve noticed I have numerous types of birds visiting or living in my yard. Just today I saw cardinals, blue jays, house wrens, a brown thrasher, bluebirds, hummingbirds, some sort of large, red headed woodpecker (with a round head, no crest), mockingbirds, sparrows, robins and a couple more which I have no idea what they are. I also have a catbird living close by.

And so I started wondering what sort of bird I’d like to be if I could be one, and I think I’d like to be an owl of some sort. I think it would be cool to glide through the trees like a sentinel of the night or perch on a very high limb, just a silhouette against the Moon.

What about you? What bird would you like to be, if any?

Thanks,

Omega Ω


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I want to make a cage for my thistle seed feeder, but I want the holes to only be big enough for goldfinches..?

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Ok, this is my situation. The reason I need a cage around the feeder, is so that the larger birds won’t hog all the seeds away from the goldfinches. I don’t mind that other small birds of that size can get in, I just wanna keep the house finches, sparrows, chickadees, etc. outta there. I know that the goldfinch is like 5 inches long, but none of the bird sites seem to report how tall they are upright (or how wide either). That’s why I don’t know how high or wide the holes in the cage should be. I live in an area where goldfinches inhabit year round, and I realize they would be brown right now, but if you can’t keep a supply of thistle seed, you’ll most likely never see them! So that’s where I am. If someone can give me exact numbers on the height & width of the holes in the cage I want to build, I will choose the first answer with those numbers as best, which will of course earn you 10 points.


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I want to keep larger birds away from my goldfinch feeder. How high & wide should the holes in the cage be?

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I want to build a cage around my goldfinch feeder in order to keep out sparrows, house finches, chickadees, etc. I know that goldfinches are like 5 inches long, but none of the bird sites tell how tall upright the bird is (or even how wide its body is, for that matter). That’s why I have no idea how tall or wide the spaces between the bars should be. Please help. I will vote the first answer with the exact measurements needed as the best answer, earning you of course 10 points.


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