Meets top ten issues of the Backyard birders

Duncraft has answers to most common questions, love birds have on the feeding of birds in their gardens. Feeding of birds are the most popular hobby in the United States, just behind the garden. Not only the biggest provider of wild birds, food and housing products, Duncraft is also a vast source of information on the feeding of birds - on Twitter, Facebook and Blog of the Duncraft wild bird.

1. What is the best way to clean the bird feeders?

Duncraft recommends to all feeders a good cleaning once a month. Remove seeds and it rub clean with a mild soap. A bottle with a long handle brush helps tube feeders. Rinse with fresh water and let air dry in the Sun if possible. Make sure that the charger is completely dry before adding fresh seed.

2. What is the best way to clean a bathroom?

Rub the baths of birds with 10 parts water for part white vinegar and rinse. The vinegar will help to prevent the proliferation of algae. Change the water every day.

3 Tallow be fed to birds in summer?

Tallow can drip and go rancid at high temperatures, so for most of the continental, tallow summer feeding is not recommended. However, there is a type of suet cakes which is labelled "Pleasure" or "Pulp" - these have more grain and less fats and drainage is not as easily.

4. Don't birds find food in the summer?

Birds get only about 25% of their diet of bird feeders.  Birds do not have to be fed in the summer, but it is a great way to attract them in backyards where bright colours of summer can be appreciated.

5. What is the best to use to attract certain birds?

Most small birds will benefit from a tube feeder, and when equipped with a shelf of seeds, more large birds can land and take advantage as well. Cardinals and Grosbeaks prefer flat platform for their stable feeders roosting areas. Orioles as nectar orange, grape jelly and strawberry and orange halves on a thoroughfare of oriole. Bluebirds can be fed mealworms in a flat single feeder.

6. How to stop other bird species to invade the Bluebird houses swallow.

Martin homes, keeping the holes of entry closed until they arrive the martins (sparrows can take residence). For a bluebird House, make sure that the entry hole was a predator guard to keep the raccoons raccoons and other predators. If the English sparrows keep building nests in homes, keep removing them until the Bluebirds have a chance to build.

7. A variety of seed is better than another?

Search for mixtures containing a large quantity of black oil sunflower rather than a glut of other unwanted seeds like wheat and milo.  Or just feed on seeds of only black oil.  It is the seed that seeds all birds love to eat!

8. How to keep budding on the lawn Nyjer seed.

Nyjer, formerly known as Thistle seed, seed is not related to the Canadian or other plants of thistle.  It is an imported seed and heat treatment when he arrived in the United States to sterilize other unwanted foreign seeds. All seeds of the Treaty to the heat become sterile and can not germinate. 

9. What is the best way to keep squirrels away from bird feeders?

Squirrels can jump 5 feet vertically and up to 15 feet horizontally, so keep at least clinging feeders 5 feet in height and 10-15 feet of tree branches, trunks or fences. If the squirrels are access to the top feeder, try a general squirrel baffle.  If they climb you a pole of the bird feeder, then use a baffle pole, so that they cannot cross.

10. How to keep bees away from bird feeders Hummingbird.

The bees seem to be attracted to the color yellow.  Try the feeders with no yellow on them or a minimum of yellow.  Or, the yellow areas can be painted with varnish red nail. Rinse any residual sugar outside the front feeder suspended so that the bees will be not drawn. Some hummingbird feeders have bee guards or advice of guard bees within the ports of food for bees and other flying insects cannot obtain. Visit Wild Bird Blog the Duncraft for more advice on this subject.





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