Sunday, January 29, 2012

There are handful of pleasures sitting on your back porch, deck, patio or balcony. and watching a gorgeous array of birds

By John Q. Ruschmeyer II


There are few pleasures to match sitting on your back porch, deck, patio or balcony... and watching a beautiful array of birds flitting to and fro amongst the feeders you have set up.Grab A Copy Click here

It's quite a site to behold. They're pretty to look at. And you get the feeling of knowing you're helping to care for them.

I have specific hummingbirds, for instance, that I've learned to recognize coming back to their feeder again and again. I almost feel like I know them.

I started at quite an early age at my grandparents' farm where I built my first bird feeder by myself รข€" a cleaned out old paint-can lid nailed firmly to a convenient fence post!

At that age, the highlight for me was to truly go out and place the meals on the plate and view for the cardinals to come and consume.

If I was really lucky I got to see a woodpecker or two along with a few juncos and chickadees.

It was from this fairly easy bird feeder that I graduated to a slightly much more sophisticated 1 in my parents' backyard.This time I had a piece of wood for a platform and a pole on which to location it.Grab A Copy Click right here

Though this was nevertheless very rudimentary it did the occupation and I am convinced that this was the starting up point for my addiction to bird watching and all items birds.

From there I progressed to begging my parents for a pair of binoculars and saving up enough pocket money to buy the scraps and things necessary to build myself a "better" bird feeder.

Naturally with such enthusiasm there was always more than one bird feeder around and at times our backyard was inundated more by my dubious building efforts than by actual birds. I never gave up however and through many a trial and error (along with quite a few trips to my local library to gather more information) I found out what worked best.

By now, I have figured out a great many short-cuts that will save you a ton of trial-and-error...and have the birds flocking to your feeders in no time flat!

If you want to entice only one particular sort of bird to your feeder then fine, you could go for the most simple feeders and be completed with it.

But there ares some people like myself who absolutely must have different feeders to attract more birds to my garden and that's where the whole "different feeders" issue comes in.




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