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<\/a><\/div>\nHow do you get birds to come to a new feeder? Here is one formula to quickly attract birds to your feeder: <\/p>\n
Put your feeders up in October. Make sure you have fresh bird seed. Fill a tube feeder with black oil sunflower seed. Put a hopper feeder with white proso millet near a tree or large bush for cover and safety. Place some mixed seeds on a low platform feeder so birds can see it easily.<\/b><\/p>\n
But even if it’s not autumn, and there are no trees growing in your yard, you can still get birds to come to your feeder in a short period of time.<\/p>\n
<\/span>How to quickly attract birds to your feeder<\/span><\/h2>\nYou can get birds to come to your feeder quickly by setting up your bird feeding station properly.<\/p>\n
[See my article on setting up your first bird feeder<\/a><\/b> for my recommendations to get started.]\nThis includes such items as food and feeders. But there is more.<\/p>\n
You may not have thought about it before, but birds need to feel safe if they are to use a feeder. The way you set up your feeders and position them in your yard can make a big difference.<\/p>\n
You can put some landscaping bushes and trees in your own yard.<\/p>\n
But you can’t control the landscaping (or lack of it) in your neighborhood. Such surrounding habitat (including neighbors with feeders) have much to do with how soon and how many birds come to your feeders.<\/p>\n
I have several recommendations to speed up the time it takes for birds to find and use your feeders.<\/p>\n
Let’s talk about these recommendations individually.<\/p>\n
Quickly attract birds to your bird feeder by offering several kinds of food<\/h3>\n
It often works best to provide several different kinds of bird seed and food separately, each in their own feeder. Why?<\/p>\n
Most birds prefer one type of bird food more than other. So when they come to a feeder with mixed bird seed, they often throw out the seeds they don’t like onto the ground. Here they can spoil or just make a mess.<\/p>\n
That feeder with all the different kinds of food? Perhaps several species eat from it. Some can be quite aggressive and scare off shier birds.<\/p>\n
Place different seeds in different feeders around your yard so that milder birds can eat their favorite seed away from other more boisterous birds that eat different seeds.<\/p>\n
Most birds like black oil sunflower seeds<\/b>. Red finches, chickadees, and goldfinches especially like this seed.<\/p>\n
Smaller sparrows and juncos like white proso millet<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Peanuts <\/b>are a favorite of jays, nuthatches, and woodpeckers.<\/p>\n
[See my article on what bird foods attract what birds<\/a><\/b>.]\nMixed seed often contains inexpensive “filler” seeds to keep the price low. But many of these seeds are not well-liked by most birds. Stick to the three foods above to attract birds more quickly. Avoid any mixed seed with red milo, wheat, or cracked corn listed as the first 3 ingredients.<\/b><\/p>\n
How fresh is your bird seed? Seed left over from last season may go bad. Start a new bird feeder or a new bird feeding season with fresh bird seed.<\/b><\/p>\n![\"Photo](\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-555CkRyLYsw\/YGSPuH3TT7I\/AAAAAAAAI9I\/4EsYcwloIWYP5Tt_A0lis0xlJMcysnbzQCLcBGAsYHQ\/w400-h300\/IMG_2124%2BBlack-headed%2BGrosbeak%2B400w.jpg\" "\\"Photo")
<\/a><\/div>\nGet birds to come to your new feeder by setting up different kinds of feeders placed around your yard<\/h3>\n
Finches and chickadees like to feed in the tree tops. They pull ripe seeds from cones or seed heads. Thus, they like to eat from tube feeders<\/b>, perhaps hanging on a tall bird feeder pole or shepherd’s hook. So put your black oil sunflower seeds in a tube feeder. <\/p>\n
Larger birds, such as jays, starlings, and blackbirds (even house sparrows) have a difficult time feeding from tube feeders. Thus, these feeders protect your more expensive sunflower seeds from the voracious appetites of larger and flocking birds.<\/p>\n
Sparrows, towhees, and juncos like to feed on the ground. They like to hop and kick over leaf litter to find fallen seeds. Provide a low hopper feeder<\/b> filled with white proso millet for these birds. Or offer a mixed bird seed that contains plenty of millet and black oil sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n
[See my article on how high bird feeders should be placed?<\/a><\/b>]\nLarger birds, such as cardinals, jays, doves, and others prefer the more open platform feeders<\/b>. Here you can feed mixed bird seeds with peanuts or other tree nuts, and cracked corn, and striped sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n
After your feeders are established, you can add suet feeders and thistle feeders. But these usually take longer to attract birds than the feeders and foods above.<\/p>\n
[See my article on different kinds of bird feeders<\/a><\/b> and what birds prefer them.]\nIf it isn’t raining, you may initially place scattered bird seed out on bare patches of ground<\/b>, patio, or in saucers on top of fence posts or around the yard where birds can see them. Birds find food by sight. They see the food. Then they are attracted to other birds squawking and fighting over food! Once birds find your feeders you don’t need to scatter bird seed on the ground anymore.<\/p>\n
This includes such items as food and feeders. But there is more.<\/p>\n
You may not have thought about it before, but birds need to feel safe if they are to use a feeder. The way you set up your feeders and position them in your yard can make a big difference.<\/p>\n
You can put some landscaping bushes and trees in your own yard.<\/p>\n
But you can’t control the landscaping (or lack of it) in your neighborhood. Such surrounding habitat (including neighbors with feeders) have much to do with how soon and how many birds come to your feeders.<\/p>\n
I have several recommendations to speed up the time it takes for birds to find and use your feeders.<\/p>\n
Let’s talk about these recommendations individually.<\/p>\n
Quickly attract birds to your bird feeder by offering several kinds of food<\/h3>\n
It often works best to provide several different kinds of bird seed and food separately, each in their own feeder. Why?<\/p>\n
Most birds prefer one type of bird food more than other. So when they come to a feeder with mixed bird seed, they often throw out the seeds they don’t like onto the ground. Here they can spoil or just make a mess.<\/p>\n
That feeder with all the different kinds of food? Perhaps several species eat from it. Some can be quite aggressive and scare off shier birds.<\/p>\n
Place different seeds in different feeders around your yard so that milder birds can eat their favorite seed away from other more boisterous birds that eat different seeds.<\/p>\n
Most birds like black oil sunflower seeds<\/b>. Red finches, chickadees, and goldfinches especially like this seed.<\/p>\n
Smaller sparrows and juncos like white proso millet<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Peanuts <\/b>are a favorite of jays, nuthatches, and woodpeckers.<\/p>\n
[See my article on what bird foods attract what birds<\/a><\/b>.]\n Mixed seed often contains inexpensive “filler” seeds to keep the price low. But many of these seeds are not well-liked by most birds. Stick to the three foods above to attract birds more quickly. Avoid any mixed seed with red milo, wheat, or cracked corn listed as the first 3 ingredients.<\/b><\/p>\n How fresh is your bird seed? Seed left over from last season may go bad. Start a new bird feeder or a new bird feeding season with fresh bird seed.<\/b><\/p>\n Finches and chickadees like to feed in the tree tops. They pull ripe seeds from cones or seed heads. Thus, they like to eat from tube feeders<\/b>, perhaps hanging on a tall bird feeder pole or shepherd’s hook. So put your black oil sunflower seeds in a tube feeder. <\/p>\n Larger birds, such as jays, starlings, and blackbirds (even house sparrows) have a difficult time feeding from tube feeders. Thus, these feeders protect your more expensive sunflower seeds from the voracious appetites of larger and flocking birds.<\/p>\n Sparrows, towhees, and juncos like to feed on the ground. They like to hop and kick over leaf litter to find fallen seeds. Provide a low hopper feeder<\/b> filled with white proso millet for these birds. Or offer a mixed bird seed that contains plenty of millet and black oil sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n [See my article on how high bird feeders should be placed?<\/a><\/b>]\n Larger birds, such as cardinals, jays, doves, and others prefer the more open platform feeders<\/b>. Here you can feed mixed bird seeds with peanuts or other tree nuts, and cracked corn, and striped sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n After your feeders are established, you can add suet feeders and thistle feeders. But these usually take longer to attract birds than the feeders and foods above.<\/p>\n [See my article on different kinds of bird feeders<\/a><\/b> and what birds prefer them.]\n If it isn’t raining, you may initially place scattered bird seed out on bare patches of ground<\/b>, patio, or in saucers on top of fence posts or around the yard where birds can see them. Birds find food by sight. They see the food. Then they are attracted to other birds squawking and fighting over food! Once birds find your feeders you don’t need to scatter bird seed on the ground anymore.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/div>\nGet birds to come to your new feeder by setting up different kinds of feeders placed around your yard<\/h3>\n