[Paulyoly]

How can i attract different birds to my yard, i currently have 2 feeder and a hummingbird feeder, i use wild birdseed mix. I get all the usual suspects, tufted tit mice, chicadees, jays, cardinals, woodpeckers. I'd love to attract buntings and bluebirds, but i'm clueless.

[Tammie]

I'm not sure about buntings but I think with bluebirds, you may need to offer mealworms and a bluebird house to make your yard more attractive to them. For other birds, you may also want to consider suet and maybe black sunflower seed.

[Paulyoly]

the bluebird houses i'm allready working on, as for suet will it melt? it gets really hot here, i've read they like peanut butter, but i can't put that out in the summer. How would i offer mealworms?

[Janie]

Walmart here sells no-melt suet, but I don't know how that would hold up to Florida temps in the summer. I mix peanut butter and lard with cornmeal, flour and oats. They love that! Maybe if you freeze it an put out small amounts at a time in the shade you could have some luck with that.

[Euan Buchan]

If you want to attract more birds then put out differnt sourses of foods for the other birds you wish to attract. Keep Birding and Have Fun

[Tammie]

I hang suet out year round and have never had any melt. In the summer, my suet cages are in full sun and it can get upwards of over 90F here. Look specifically for no-melt suet cakes. And like Janie said, peanut butter is okay if it's mixed with cornmeal to give it a base... it won't melt. As for mealworms, you could try offering them in a dish or on a platform feeder. Hope this helps. :)

[Tammie]

Cool! That was my 500th post! Doesn't take much to amuse me.... :)

[seb_seb]

be creative- make your own "specially blend of herbs and spices"(taken from some old el paso advert). dont actually use herbs or spices though!

[ariddle]

Put out a water source if you don't already have one.

[Paul 42]

Afraid I don’t know spit about Hummingbirds or Bluebirds but……Well done Tammie!!! (Doesn’t take much to amuse me either.)

[bcurrie]

Paulyoly, can't add much to what others have already said, but just wanted to extend my welcome to you, though a bit belated. I can only echo what Euan said, use more sources. I used to use those wild bird seed mixes, but not any more. Not that they are inferior, they are just limited. Put out some cracked corn, different types of sunflower seeds, maybe some peanuts, and some fruit. This is not advice for the Bluebirds, just for attracting more birds to your feeder. And do you have an Oriole feeder yet?

Tammie, it gets to 90 degrees F there? On a regular basis? Must be that inland effect. Do you guys get the mosquitoes super bad as well?

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I would like to know what a oriole feeder is or what it looks like , i would love to feed the birds but dont know whats best,

[Paulyoly]

Originally posted by bcurrie
Paulyoly, can't add much to what others have already said, but just wanted to extend my welcome to you, though a bit belated. I can only echo what Euan said, use more sources. I used to use those wild bird seed mixes, but not any more. Not that they are inferior, they are just limited. Put out some cracked corn, different types of sunflower seeds, maybe some peanuts, and some fruit. This is not advice for the Bluebirds, just for attracting more birds to your feeder. And do you have an Oriole feeder yet?

Tammie, it gets to 90 degrees F there? On a regular basis? Must be that inland effect. Do you guys get the mosquitoes super bad as well?

No oriole feeder yet, but according to my bird book the only orioles that inhabit my neck of the woods are orchard orioles.

[Tammie]

Hi Brian,
Yes, it most definitely does reach 90F here in the summer, usually for good portions of July and August and can be really brutal if it turns into a humid summer like last year. Fall hits fast by the end of August though and our first snow fall usually comes in September. As for the mosqitos... well, maybe they should be the national bird for Northern Ontario!!