Tips and ideas involving birds in the backyard, from bird feeders and baths to birdhouses and feeding tips.
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Discover simple and effective ways to attract hummingbirds to your yard with feeders, native plants, and water features.
Do you love hummingbirds as much as I do? These tiny, mesmerizing birds are among the most delightful visitors to our backyards.
I enjoy having them around so much that I go out of my way to create nests for them or provide materials they can use to build their own.
Find inspiration with these 25 unique and decorative bird bath ideas to provide water for birds and enhance the appearance of your garden or yard.
A bird bath in a garden or backyard space not only provides decorative value but can also support the conservation of wild birds.
This guide shares the ten most common bird feeder types, catering to various bird species and suitable for offering different kinds of food.
A bird feeder not only helps birds satisfy their nutrition needs, but it can also serve as a great decoration item in your backyard.
Hummingbirds love the sweet taste of sugar water. Unfortunately, that love is shared by ants. If you have a hummingbird feeder, you probably know this fact all too well.
So the question is, how do you allow hummingbirds to enjoy your feeders without letting the ants steal all the sweet water you’ve worked so hard to make?
This guide shares ten practical tips to keep squirrels away from the bird feeder in your backyard and keep birds safe and happy.
There’s nothing better than looking out your window to see a flock of colorful songbirds enjoying the offerings in your birdfeeder. But this rewarding hobby can quickly become costly and time-consuming when squirrels get involved.
Learn the best places to hang a hummingbird nest and attract these colorful, energetic birds to your outdoor space.
One of the most delightful visitors to our backyards is the tiny yet mighty hummingbird.
Hummingbirds stand out not only for their unique characteristics but also for their distinctive nesting habits, which differ from those of many other birds that frequent our outdoor spaces.
Ten practical and friendly tips to keep birds, such as pigeons, crows, and sparrows, from settling and even nesting on your porch.
While having birds around in the front or backyard can be a wonderful thing, you would want them to stay away from the porch, for various reasons.
Not sure what to feed birds? Consider these ten kitchen scraps and other food items the birds in your backyard will appreciate.
Did you know that you can use kitchen scraps as bird food?
By offering the right scraps to birds, in addition to traditional bird food, you’re providing a greater variety of nutrition sources while also reducing landfill waste.
Find out whether oats or oatmeal is potentially good for birds and how best to prepare bird food with oatmeal.
If you love having birds in and around your backyard, you may need to help them feed, especially during the colder winter months.
One simple, easy, and cost-effective way to help birds with their daily nutrition intake is by offering them oats or oatmeal, in addition to other kitchen scraps and food items.
Once you’ve decided to install a birdhouse, it’s important to think about ways to attract birds to your backyard so they will use that birdhouse.
In addition to the decorative value, a birdhouse can also offer environmental benefits. But choosing the right birdhouse and ensuring that birds are attracted to it is more complicated than you might think.