Even when day temperatures do not reach above freezing our garden is hopping with feathered activity. During the dreary, cold, gray skies of a week ago we enjoyed watching the hungry birds queuing up ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black oil sunflower seed is the best option for attracting a wide variety of bird species to your feeders. Hulled sunflower ...

Bluebirds and finches are among the feathered friends you might attract with a backyard bird feeder like this. Heather Cwach Courtesy photo Feeding the birds is a popular, entertaining backyard hobby.

We've always filled our bird feeders with black oil sunflower seeds. Most of the time the seeds were in their shells. Watching chickadees one day, I wondered about the energy they used to pluck a seed ...

We have bird feeders at home located over a mixed planting of shrubs and perennials and have had good luck growing plants near the feeder. Your question does not include the type of seeds you are ...

Shopping for bird seed can be confusing, especially if you are new to the world of feeding backyard birds. That’s because there are a wide variety of bird species, and each has its own dietary wants ...

Feeder mistakes add up fast. Seasonal timing, fresh food, clean water, and safer setup keep backyard birds returning all year ...

I didn’t realize how much I missed seeing birds outside my house until they started to show up a week after I put up a feeder stand in Durham, North Carolina, where I am renting a town house for three ...

Black oil sunflower seed is the best option for attracting a wide variety of bird species to your feeders. Hulled sunflower kernels are convenient but more expensive and require careful handling to ...