Make Your Own Bird Food

Today is , have you fed your birds today?

 

Sure you can buy wild bird food, but there are hundreds of family handed-down homemade bird food recipes you can easily make on your own.

Many of these bird food recipes include ingredients you likely have laying around the house.

Most birds will eat many things.
The recipes listed for each bird are some of their preferred food selections.

The information within this web site is free for your use.  Enjoy!

 

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Here's a collection of interesting birding facts, figures, quotes and other stuff!

  • During WWII, the U.S. used 54,000 pigeons for carrying messages. Approx. 3,000 soldiers trained and cared for them.

  • Emperor penguins have square pupils.

  • How is climate change affecting the birds we see in our backyards?
    Nearly 60% of the 305 species found in North America have shifted their ranges northward by an average of 35 miles.
    National Audobon Society

  • An ostrich can cover 25 feet in a single stride.

  • Most hummingbirds weigh less than a penny.

  • Birds are even more warm-blooded than mammals. A body temperature of 108 degrees F is not uncommon.

  • 'I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character . . . like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy . . . the turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America.'
    Benjamin Franklin

  • A group of swans is called a bevy.

  • Ian Fleming's spy, Agent 007, was named after noted American ornithologist James Bond
    (1900-1989)
  • A hummingbird needs the nectar of approximately 1000 flowers each day to survive! Why not help them out by making your own nectar. Follow our easy recipe!
  • Of the 16 varieties of hummingbirds that nest in the United States, only the Anna's hummingbird stays in the country over the winter season. All others migrate south, some as far as Central America!
  • The early bird may catch the worm, but the poorwill catches a nap. It is the only bird known to hibernate.

  • 'God gave a loaf to every bird, but just a crumb to me.' Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
  • 'Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she has laid an asteroid.' Mark Twain (1835-1910)
  • 'If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows.'
    Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
  • Believe it or not, woodpeckers don't get headaches, although they may give them to some homeowners.

  • Birdfeeding and watching is the second most popular outdoor activity in America. 30 - 40% of us feed and watch birds.

  • The old saying 'eats like a bird' is often misused. Birds normally eat from 1/4 to 1/2 the body weight every day!

  • It would take 2,400 Hummingbird eggs (.02 oz.) to equal the weight of 1 Ostrich egg (3 lbs.)

  • 'Bird migration is the one truly unifying natural phenomenon in the world, stitching the continents together in a way that even the great weather systems, which roar out from the poles but fizzle at the equator, fail to do.'
    Scott Weidensaul
    Living on the Wind (1999)

  • 'The word stupid is utterly inapplicable to any bird with which I am acquainted...It is only when birds of any species are unacquainted with man, that they manifest that kind of ignorance or innocence which he calls stupidity.'
    John James Audubon (1785-1851)
  • 'A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.'
    Maya Angelou

  • 'Life is a gift...let us respond with grace and courtesy.'
    Maya Angelou

  • Birds know a thing or two about seeds. They will weigh a seed on their tongue before cracking it open. If the seed seems to light, they will move on, as they know there's not enough oil or fat in it to provide value. In other words, the bird knows it may have to spend more energy cracking the seed open than it will get back in food energy. If only we were that smart!

  • Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.

  • The owl is a real bird-brain and not very wise. The smartest bird is thought to be the crow, yes the Crow!

  • Bird feeding is a great hobby and very good for your backyard birds, but did you know that some research has shown that even when feeder food is available, at least 75% of the food birds eat comes from the wild!

Make Your Own Bird Food