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Post by Hannah on Oct 20, 2016 13:15:47 GMT -5
Ollie and the budgies love to talk to birds outside and right now there are a few lost birds in the neighborhood and city so I want to put food outside to attract them. The budgies and Ollie seeds are out of question b/c my mom would kill me but a while back we bought organic hemp hearts from Costco and we never eat them and I also sometimes have left over seed at night in their food dishes that I normally just throw out. We also have a lot of raisins. My mom doesn't like feeding wild birds because we live near wolves, coyotes and wild cats so she's worried about them dying.
I'll bring the lost birds back to their owners if I find them, but will this attract them? It's just when I opened the window today the budgies were chirping to a bird that sounded like a budgie or cockatiel. Currently there's budgies, cockatiels, and Linnie's missing so just small birds so what can I do?
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Post by easttex on Oct 21, 2016 5:36:54 GMT -5
It's hard to attract just birds when you put food out, let alone specific birds. I put out lots of bird seed, but I know I'm also sustaining opossums, raccoons, armadillos, deer, foxes, coyotes, squirrels, and who knows what else. I don't have to worry about wolves, though. I'd recommend that you find a spot close to your house, but not accessible to the worrisome animals, like on a second story window ledge, for example, and place some food there. A tame bird will be more likely to come in close for it. If I could put out only one thing in your situation, it would be water. A visually appealing bird bath might do as much as food to attract birds.
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Post by Caseysmom on Oct 21, 2016 22:06:39 GMT -5
I too have a big bird feeder pole out front and at my side door I do through out the old finch seed each day. Like Easttex said there are no guarantees as to who you are feeding I've never seen a domestic bird but a big variety of wild ones. I am always running with my camera to grab pics
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