Did You Know?

There are 17 species of Mockingbird but the Northern Mockingbird is the specie found in North America.

The Northern Mockingbird is considerate the state bird of Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas.
They like to eat from Platform Feeders or Suet Feeder. They eat berries, dried grapes or dried raisins, figs, apples, oranges and dogwood. ]]> http://site.outdoorbirdfeeders.com/blog/2010/06/10/the-northern-mockingbird/feed/ 0 http://site.outdoorbirdfeeders.com/blog/2009/12/27/cliff-swallow/ http://site.outdoorbirdfeeders.com/blog/2009/12/27/cliff-swallow/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:03:38 +0000 marina http://site.outdoorbirdfeeders.com/blog/?p=43 Swallows nest in colonies that may contain from 12 to 500 nesting pairs. They build their nests close to buildings, bridges and other structures.  They use mud, hair, grass and feathers to build their nests,  sometimes when they are lazy to build a nest they lay their eggs in another swallow’s nests.  They spend most of their time catching insects, and the only time they are on the ground is to collect mud for their nests.

The House Wren can be found around cities, suburbs, towns, and any open area environments creating more opportunities for us to view them.

House Wren eat insects, snails, and spiders. They capture their food in the shrubs, the trees and on the ground.

They use the woodpecker holes or bird houses for their nesting sites.  The nest is built with dry, small sticks and others materials such as, feathers, hair, wool, spider cocoons, moss and trash.  After the male house wren builds his nest the female will inspect it. If she doesn’t agree with the construction of his nest she will throw all unwanted building materials to the ground.

Hummingbirds eat both nectar and the small insects found near the nectar. They eat every 15 to 20 minutes and may visit around 1,000 flowers per day. They are only found in North America and South America, but just 16 types of hummingbirds breed in the United Sates.

Generally, in spring, the gray squirrels live on whatever buds, roots, bulbs, and flowers are available plus buried stores from the prior season. Natural food sources are your yard plants and trees that provide forage. Supplemental food, such as in a bird feeder is good, but natural foraging sources are even better.

The human help that the critters need is water, (Water can come from a bird bath or very slowly dripping faucet), natural food sources, (such as buds, roots, bulbs, flowers, seeds, berries, and nuts), and shelter, (Squirrels find shelter within the massive branches of the white oak trees that we can plant in our yards.)