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Backyard Birds

Watching and listening to birds are two of life’s simple pleasures. With these tips, you will be able to enjoy these winged wonders in your own backyard.

How to Attract Songbirds to Your Garden

Creating a Bird-Friendly Garden

Flowers That Attract Hummingbirds

What Are the Best Plants for Hummingbirds?

Fascinating Hummingbird Facts

Fun Facts About Hummingbirds

Gardening for the Birds

5 Tips for a Bird-Friendly Yard and Garden

two Tufted Titmouse (baeolophus bicolor)on a suet pine cone. DIY bird feeder

DIY Homemade Bird Food Recipes

Make Your Own Bird Food: Suet & Seed Mixes

The Wonderful World of Waxwings

Learn All About Bohemian and Cedar Waxwings!

Plants With Seeds That Feed the Birds in Fall

Garden Plants With Seeds That Birds Love

For the Birds: The Importance of Caterpillars

Plant Trees That Support Caterpillars (and Birds)!

Birds of Prey: Hawks, Falcons, Owls

Can Birds Predict the Weather?

Weather Proverbs About Birds

The Wild Turkey: History of an All-American Bird

All About Wild Turkeys

woodpecker in the snow, pecking at a tree, woodpecker pudding recipe.

Bird Food Recipe: Woodpecker Pudding

How to Make a Suet-Based Treat for Your Backyard Birds

recipe for homemade bird suet, red headed bird on suet cage, suet feeder, text

How to Make Suet for Birds

Try These Homemade Suet Recipes!

Redeeming the Raven, Evermore

Surprising Facts about Ravens

How Crows and Jays Save Trees

How Do Birds Navigate at Night?

How birds use the Sun and stars to find their way home

Why Do Birds Migrate and How Do They Know When to Go?

Do Migratory Birds Have a Sixth Sense?

Feed the Hummers! How to Make Hummingbird Nectar

Attract Hummingbirds with Our Easy Homemade DIY Nectar Recipe

Bird Feeders: What's the Best Type of Feeder?

Best Bird Feeders for Cardinals and Other Birds

one single adult killdeer bird sitting on a clutch of eggs

The Courageous Killdeer Bird

Fascinating Facts About the Killdeer Bird

Fascinating Facts About Owls

Learn About the Ever-Interesting Owl

Easy Bird Food Recipe: Backyard Bird Cornbread

Attract Backyard Birds with this Easy, DIY Birdseed Cake

The Best Winter Bird Foods

Which Foods Attract Which Birds?

House-hunting with the Bluebird

Bird Boxes for Bluebirds

How to Make a Bird Seed Wreath

Bird Sounds: Eastern Bluebird

Eastern Bluebird Calls

Best Trees and Shrubs to Attract Birds

Plant trees that provide food and habitat for our feathered friends

Different Types of Woodpeckers: How Many Have You Seen?

Photos of Common Woodpecker Species

The Epic Migration of the Red Knot

Why a Once-Common Bird is Now Threatened

Nesting Season for Owls

Get to Know the Habits of Barred and Great Horned Owls!

Appreciating the Sparrow: The Bird Right Outside Your Front Door

Here's How to Go Sparrow-Spotting

Rules for Hand-Taming Wild Birds

How to Gentle the Birds in Your Backyard

Hawk Watch: Do Hawks Migrate South for the Winter?

Get ready for hawkwatching!

Cardinal and wren at a bird feeder during winter

Feeding Wild Birds in Your Backyard: A Guide To Seed Types

Is It OK to Feed Wild Birds?

Invasive Species Run Wild

How two seemingly good ideas went terribly wrong

It's Snowy Owl Season! Spotting This Elusive Bird

All about Snowy Owl migration