Bird Feeding

I had a beautiful birdhouse with stained glass sides but those spiteful little squirrels chewed threw the hanker and it broke when it hit the ground and i haven't replaced it yet. Although i did see a fishing cabin on e-bay I'm thinking on. It is made out of wood and might not break as easily!

I quit feeding birds during the spring and summer because the squirrels would get all the feed. I want to find a different kind of feeder this fall because I love watching birds.

Your picture looks kind of like a sparrrow, but it's hard to tell.

If you want to keep the squirrels away from a birdfeed that hangs in a tree drill a hole in a bigger plastic or steel bowl (just a bowl that's smooth on the outside). Turn the bowl upside down and put it on top of the bird feeder. They slide off and can't get down to get the bird seeds. Just make sure the bowl doesn't have a rim they can catch onto.

Just today I got this shot. This silly bird was so lazy it wouldnt even fly to the bird feeder it was eating the stuff that fell to the grass.

We have feeders in our yard and keep them filled for most of the year. Last week we had an invader in the yard. We believe it is a bear. The pole from the feeder was taken right from the ground. Both feeders were emptied of seed and tossed aside.

We held off on refilling them. They now are half full and hopefully we will once again see the cardinals, sparrows, finches, mourning doves and blue jays as they come to feast at the feeders. Hopefully the bears will have forgotten that there was a quick treat in our backyard.

The only feeder I have is for hummingbirds. The house behind us has two or three bird feeders hanging in their carport.

Hi there Grandpa B...We have not feeders and I always place them in our backyard close to our back door window and so far, the birds will be flocking there to eat it, possible this time after our dog died and no one will bug them! LOL!

Well like I said in the photo comments, I was going to say it looked like a sparrow to me. Whatever it is, it is fat and healthy! It appears he has been feeding at your birdfeeder quite often! I'll have to check back here and see if anyone has truly identified the little birdie:) Have a good one!

I stop feeding them in the summer, can't afford all that seed! But I'd love to.

I should get a bird feederthat would be so much fun,we have three large cedar trees almost against our fence,and a
'zillion different birds live in them. Black birds,crows, mocking birds,you name it and some rather cocky blue jays'also.we also have a resident emarald green ruby throated
'hummingbird who loves to sip nectar from the hawthorne bushes and now she has to go to the roses as the hawthorn blooms are all'gone. she is so pretty.