Bird Feeders and Bird Baths

Adding bird feeders and a bird bath to your yard is a great way to help the environment and attract birds. Birds are fun to watch and eat unwanted insects in your yard. In our yard we see cardinals, bluejays, bluebirds, woodpeckers, sparrows, starlings, and crows. The crows are the most entertaining. You can also add a few bird houses. If put them in the right place, the birds will use them.
We really enjoy the hummingbirds. They are so territorial and aggressive! We always plant multiple pots of impatiens around the yard and back deck. The hummingbirds love to feed on these easy to mantain blooms. The hummingbirds swoop all around us as we sit on the deck in the afternoon. We also maintain a sugar-water feeder for the hummingbirds. The only problem we have encountered are the ants getting in the feeder. You can remedy that by greasing their approach to the feeder. Some other birds that will visit the sugar-water feeder are orioles, warblers, and woodpeckers, as long as they can perch to drink.