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 a cleaned out old paint-can lid nailed firmly to a convenient fence post!
At that age, the highlight for me was to actually go out and put the food on the plate and watch for the cardinals to come and eat. If I was really lucky I got to see a woodpecker or two along with a few juncos and chickadees.
It was from this rather simple bird feeder that I graduated to a slightly more sophisticated one in my parents' backyard.This time I had a piece of wood for a platform and a pole on which to place it.Grab A Copy Click here
Although this was still quite rudimentary it did the job and I'm convinced that this was the starting point for my addiction to bird watching and all things 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 attract only one type of bird to your feeder then fine, you could go for the most basic feeders and be done 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.
