How to Attract Birds This Holiday Season

Seasonal Needs

 As the nights are  getting longer and colder this time of year the birds require high-fat, quick-energy foods to stay active and warm.  The insect-eating birds are looking for more fats and fruits.  While the seed-eating birds are searching for high-oil seeds and nuts.

 Have you happen to notice how ravenously the birds eat at your feeders, especially early in the morning and just before dusk? Chickadees can gain as much as 10% of their body weight each day and lose it all again during a cold winter night.

Recommended Foods

 To attract more birds this holiday season and meet their dietary needs add one or more of the following to your feeding setup a Wild Birds Unlimited Christmas Seed Wreath, Christmas Blend, a Christmas Seed Cylinder and Christmas Cake™ Suet. Each has high-fat, quick-energy ingredients like black oil sunflower, peanuts, almonds, suet nuggets, and cherries or cranberries.

 Our Christmas Seed Wreath (pictured right) is a dining delight for birds, and it can add festive cheer to any yard. Use it as a decoration, or hang it near your existing feeders that are busier than ever these days.

Recommended Feeders

 We recommend serving Christmas Blend in our EcoTough™ Classic or Classic Too hopper feeder. Birds can easily find the food and comfortably eat while some of the food will be knocked to the ground for winter ground-feeding birds, such as juncos and various sparrows.

 Offering a Christmas Seed Cylinder in a Seed Cylinder Feeder is an easy way to provide birds with essential calories throughout the holidays. Nuthatches can be seen prying seeds loose and sometimes flying off to store them for retrieval later in the same day or a quick source of food the next morning.

 Our EcoTough™ Tail Prop Suet Feeder is perfect for the Christmas Cake Suet and lets birds eat in a natural way. The paddle simulates a tree trunk, allowing you to see woodpeckers use their stiff tail feathers for extra support while they feed. This feeder holds one suet cake, is easy to fill and hangs anywhere.