Four changes, in order, that get bees and wasps off a hummingbird feeder without spraying anything. The first one, a saucer feeder, fixes most yards in a day.
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Hummingbirds don’t care whether a plant is native, fashionable, or
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“Small grey bird with a white belly” is the most
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Water draws the half of your yard’s birds that never touch a feeder. What the Birdfy Bath Pro does well, and how to get most of it for $80.
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Drumming is a woodpecker’s song. How to tell it from feeding, identify the species by tempo, and get it off your gutter without harming the bird.
Black-oil sunflower is the base. Here’s what to add and pull in each season across the U.S., which seven foods are worth buying, and which bags to skip.
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Ten things you’ll see at a feeder, and what’s actually going on, from caching chickadees to lying jays.
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The last songbird to nest and one of the first: how goldfinches and house finches raise young, and what a yard can do.
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Nyjer socks draw goldfinches as well as a $25 feeder. They just don’t last. When a sock is the right buy, and what to replace it with.
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Two seeds, three feeder shapes, and the timing most people get backward. Everything it takes to bring goldfinches and house finches to a feeder anywhere in the U.S.
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