Crows are intelligent, fascinating creatures - but they may not be the birds you're hoping to attract to your yard. Avoiding ...

How to Clean Seed Bird Feeders. ... it is highly toxic to birds.) Combine equal parts distilled white vinegar and warm water in a bucket or tub large enough to hold a feeder.

Adding a bird feeder is an easy way to attract more songbirds to your garden, and adding more than one feeder with more than one seed blend could attract even more bird species. With every additional ...

Soak all feeder parts in a sink with one cup of vinegar to two cups of hot water, ... For many, providing seed and observing wild birds represents a rare pleasure during the pandemic.

Meanwhile, feeders should be taken down, the remaining seed discarded in the trash bin, and the feeder cleaned by soaking it for 15 minutes in a solution of one part bleach to 30 parts water. Let ...

We feed birds all summer long, and the grass and flowers near the feeder tend to look bad. The grass dies due to the broken seeds that fall and an ugly green leafy weed grows instead. Is there any … ...

It's fine to fill your feeder year-round, since birds can use the extra calories for migrating and feeding their young. The Audubon Society of Portland offers some sound advice for keeping your ...

Why Do Birds Seem To Throw Seed From Feeders? These bird answers and more. Tony Dolle. Special to The Leaf-Chronicle. Editor's note: Submit outdoors photos and story ideas to news director Gary ...

DEAR JOAN: We no longer have cats in our backyard, so we decided to put up a bird feeder.It hangs between two posts, has three kinds of seed that local birds eat and is not easily accessible to ...