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Duncraft Decorating your yard for the holidays? Add festive touches that look great and provide food for the birds!

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This year, why not decorate a special Holiday Tree for the birds with bird-edible ornaments and tasty treats? It can be a tree bare of leaves or a beautiful evergreen.Either way, bird trees look festive and charming in your yard and attract a lot of bird-attention!
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Duncraft As a great way to reconnect with nature, bird watching is becoming increasingly popular and can even be done from the comfort of your own home.

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As a great way to reconnect with nature, bird watching is becoming increasingly popular and can even be done from the comfort of your own home. Jim Nordgren, executive director of the Bedford Audubon Society, has some valuable suggestions for attracting feathered friends to your backyard.
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Sheila I have been a Duncraft customer for years and have found their seed to be the best around -- my bird-visitors think so too!

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Duncraft One way to help the birds stay warm is to leave your bird houses up all winter. Stuffing cotton nesting materials and dried grasses inside will help insulate them, and the box will serve as a cozy place for birds to get out of the elements...

Diana Stockert
Diana Stockert
I have been looking at getting a couple of these but have a couple questions ... how high off the ground? Near a tree or away from a tree?
Fri at 7:21am
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Hi Diana, If you are only going to use the box as a roost in winter, then a tree would be fine because predators like snakes won't be trying to access the roost. About 10 feet up would probably be about right.
However, if you are going to convert the house to a nesting box in spring, it would be best to mount it as you would a bird house. Mounting... Read More on a pole is best so you can use a pole baffle to keep predators away and not so close to trees that predators can jump to the top of the box. Here's a link to our Bird House Guide that will give you more information:
http://www.duncraft.com/Before-Buying-a-Bird-House-W79C167.aspx
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Duncraft Be Green! Top 10 things you can do for birds...

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There are countless ways to create habitat for birds in your backyard. Perhaps the easiest is to let things go wild in one part of your property. Chances are the plants that grow in your wild area will be natural sources of food for the birds. ...
Karen Clontz-Patterson
Karen Clontz-Patterson
Advice well taken a long time ago. My birds and bunnies and others love my yard. Its more wild than manicured. Hubbie does not appreciate it but....he understands.
November 19 at 7:19am
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Duncraft eBird announced the launching of two new projects to help gather data on bird populations--you can help!

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From its inception, the grand hypothesis of eBird has been that the observations of birders can make a valuable contribution to understanding broad-scale patterns of bird distribution and abundance. With ...
Kathy Libby
Kathy Libby
Heading over now to sign up wit them.. Thanks for sharing!
November 18 at 10:18am
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Duncraft Like all owls, Barred Owls are carnivores and eat mammals such as mice, rabbits,
bats, fish and snakes. They eat the entire animal and in the process, they
swallow a lot of material they can’t digest, such as bones and fur...

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The first time I heard Barred Owls was on a camp-out.Two of them were trading calls in the middle of the night from each side of a wide field. The sound was positively eerie!And two times in the last week, I’ve heard a Barred Owl calling at about 4:30 a.m in my back yard. ...
Leigh
Leigh
We saw 2 barred owls over a period of a month. They make a variety of sounds besides the typical "Who cooks for you". A raptor site I found mentions "sounds like whistling, baying hounds, barking dogs, humans screaming in agony, cackling, yells, & maniacal laughter". The first time we heard them late at night we thought they were drunk people. lol

http://www.raptorrehab.org/raptors/barred.htm
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Leigh
Leigh
BTW I love your FB page....very interesting articles :)
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Duncraft Position your bird feeders for easy viewing from your favorite rooms inside your home...

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Too often, bird feeders are hung on the handiest tree in the yard.That’s great if the tree is close to the house and near a window that you look out often. But if your view is mostly ...
Diana Stockert
Diana Stockert
The only problem I have with this is that our best viewing window is on the west side of the house .... our winter winds come from the northwest. I would hate to leave my feathered friends hanging in the wind!
November 17 at 1:15pm
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Diana, try a window feeder. You can put those on any window in the house!
November 19 at 7:50am