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Setting up your first bird feeder
The beginner's first hour: what to buy, where to hang it, how high, how far from the glass, and how long to wait.
- Your first bird feeder, start to finish
- The best bird feeders for beginners
- The bird feeding starter kit
- Where to hang a bird feeder
- How to hang a bird feeder without a tree
- Feeding birds on a balcony or in a small space
- How to attract birds to a new feeder
- Keeping birds safe at your feeder
- How many bird feeders should you have?
- Shepherd's hooks for bird feeders
- Deck rail bird feeders and mounts
- Bird feeder pole mounts and adapters
- How to stop birds hitting your windows
Bird feeder types, and which one you actually need
Tube, hopper, platform, suet, finch, window and peanut feeders compared — what each holds, who eats there, and what it costs you in squirrels.
- Tube feeders: the default first feeder
- Hopper feeders: capacity, roof and a perch to stand on
- Platform feeders, and the cardinals you have been missing
- Suet feeders: cages, tail-props and upside-down
- Finch feeders, and the nyjer they need
- Window feeders: birds at arm's length
- Peanut feeders
- Mealworm feeders and the birds that ignore seed
- Caged feeders: exclusion by size
- Feeders with seed catcher trays
- The best bird feeders, one per type
- Which bird feeder attracts the most birds?
- Bird feeder materials, and which parts must be metal
- DIY bird feeders vs buying one
- The best bird feeders for cardinals
- The best bird feeders for woodpeckers
- The best bird feeders for blue jays
- Ground feeders, and the case against them
- The best bird feeders for chickadees
- Bird feeders with cameras
- Bird Buddy, reviewed honestly
- The best bird feeders for bluebirds
- The best bird feeders for winter
- Bird Buddy vs Birdfy
- The best wooden bird feeders
- Woodlink Absolute II review
- Oriole feeders, and which food actually works
- Hummingbird feeders, and the saucer-or-bottle decision
- Bird feeders for mourning doves and the ground crowd
Bird seed, explained by what is actually in the bag
What to put in the feeder: sunflower, safflower, nyjer, suet and mealworms, plus the filler seeds that end up on the ground.
- The best bird seed for wild birds
- Bird seed types, and who actually eats them
- No-mess bird seed, compared honestly
- The best seed for each bird you want
- Safflower and squirrels: the honest version
- Suet and suet cakes
- Nyjer seed, and why your finch feeder is being ignored
- How to store bird seed
- What it actually costs to feed birds
- Bird seed without fillers, and how to spot the fillers
- The patch under the feeder, and how to stop it
- Buying bird seed in bulk
- Seed cylinders, cakes and bells
- The best bird seed storage containers
- Mealworms for birds
- Peanuts for birds
- Can birds eat bread? And what else from the kitchen
Squirrels: what works, what does not, and what nobody admits
The site's signature argument: nothing is squirrel-proof, placement beats mechanism, and here are the published numbers behind both claims.
- The best squirrel-resistant bird feeders
- Are any bird feeders really squirrel-proof?
- How to keep squirrels off your bird feeders
- The best bird feeder baffles
- The best bird feeder poles
- Weight-activated vs caged bird feeders
- Cheap squirrel-resistant setups that actually work
- Squirrel-proofing a feeder hanging from a tree
- Hot pepper bird seed, examined honestly
- Chipmunks, and why your squirrel setup does not stop them
- Brome Squirrel Buster Plus, reviewed
- Squirrel-proof suet feeders
- Which Squirrel Buster should you buy?
- Droll Yankees Yankee Flipper review
- Roamwild PestOff review
- Squirrel-proof feeders cardinals will actually use
- Feeding squirrels on purpose
Keeping a feeder going through the year
Cleaning schedules, the fall and winter calendar, what to do when birds stop showing up, and keeping rodents out of the seed.
- When to put bird feeders out: the fall calendar
- Why no birds are coming to your feeder
- How to clean a bird feeder
- Feeding birds through winter
- Feeding birds in summer
- Rodents, raccoons and the visitors you did not invite
- Grackles, starlings and the birds you did not want
- Water, and the one thing a feeder cannot do
- Keeping bird seed dry
- Raccoon-proof bird feeders
- Solar bird bath fountains, wigglers and drippers
- Hanging and deck rail bird baths
- The easiest bird feeders to clean