Our new rewards program allows you to earn 5% in store cash back on all merchandise storewide. So whether you buy bird seed, a feeder, or a mug you are earning reward points. Once you have reached the point level needed you will receive a $10.00 Birdie Bucks Reward Check, bring that check back into the store to be used the same as cash. Multiple checks can be used on the same visit.

Stop in and get signed up then sit back and watch your mailbox for your Birdie Bucks Check.

• When you put up a thistle feeder for the beautiful Goldfinches, put it at least 8-10 feet away from any other types of feeder. The finches want their own space. Also be sure your seed is fresh. Never buy more then what you can use in a month.
• Did you know that Thistle seed is not seed of Thistle. So you will not grow thistles! The Goldfinches do however use the thistle plant fluff to line their nests late in the summer, so they carry seeds in with the fluff and that may grow thistles in your yard.

• They usually arrive on April 15th (Tax Day).
• Put out your nectar feeders and keep the solution fresh if you want activity.

• Put out your feeder at the end of April.
• They can be fed nectar, orange halves, or grape jelly.

• Arrives around the first of May.
• Fill your feeders with Black Oil Sunflower or Safflower.

• These little friends also start to arrive around the first of May.

• Increases the variety of birds you will see in your yard.
• Once you have the bath the only cost is a little effort on your part.
• Electric heated baths in the winter have only a small electrical load and care for our little friends through the coldest winter.

Cardinals Blue Jays Chickadees Downey Wood Peckers Red Bellied Wood Peckers Hairy Wood Peckers Flickers Mourning Doves Brown Creeper

House Finches Gold Finches (changed color) Juncos House Sparrows White Throated Sparrows White Crowned Sparrows Starlings Red Breasted Nuthatches White Breasted Nuthatches

• If you’ve been feeding Safflower in the Summer then you will want to add some Black Oil Sunflower for the added fat the birds need in the cold weather, everyone loves Black Oil Sunflower, and those nasty Grackles are gone for the Winter.
• The Nuthatches come back to our feeders when it gets cold again:
• A peanut feeder is a great feeder to add for both the Wood Peckers and Nuthatches.
• Keep your Thistle Feeders out for the Gold Finches, you won’t get as many and they change colors (all look like females) but you will get them all winter long and your seed stays fresher in the cold.
• The birds don’t mind the seeds getting a bit wet in the snow but they don’t want them soggy. Try putting out smaller amounts of seed more often. This will keep it dry.
• Also, seed still in the shell, like Whole Sunflower, will not stick together when it gets wet like those out of the shell like Chipped Sunflower.
• It’s about that time of the year to be thinking of heated birdbaths. I have several kinds available; One that will clamp on to a deck rail and others that stand-alone. I also have heaters to put into existing baths. All the heaters have thermostats in them; this allows them to only come on when it’s below freezing.

• Move the bath closer to the house, so you won’t have to trudge through the snow to fill and clean.
• When you plug your extension cord to your bath heater wrap electrical tape around the plugs, this will keep them dry.
• If you are using a heater in a concrete bath: make sure to keep the heater covered with water.