How to Feed Wild Birds the RIGHT Seeds for Less Wasted Money to Attract Wildlife in the Bird Garden

[@Livingsamsara]

I [South Carolina, Zone 8A/B] leave my dead/dehydrated flowers; zinnias, sunflowers, marigold, oh all of them, and ever since I began doing that I've gotten birds I've never had before. I dislike the unkempt look of it but it makes me happIER to see the birds in the bush having fun, eating, & enjoying themselves in the brush (and hiding from the hawks) so I don't do a clean up until nearing end of winter. Naturally I buy different versions of seeds for placement about the yard, but I like the idea of nature giving back to nature.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

@@Livingsamsara that is great! ❤️❤️❤️

[@cherylj7460]

I never thought of this! Thanks!

[@sonflowersue.CHOOSE.L0VE]

Thanks for the info Robbie. You have pleasant weather you can do that with. It's below freezing every night here in Southern Idaho now, so no plants for the birds, but I do feed them wild bird seed, finch seed, dove and quail seed and the nyger socks for my four gold finches. I mainly get house sparrows (lots), house finches, mourning doves, pigeon like doves, and maybe a Robin and a woodpecker. I have two birdbath heaters so there'splentyof unfrozen water for the birds and squirrels, and lots of birdseed on the ground. Those house sparrows have no manners 😅. Take care.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

All this is so wonderful ❤️❤️❤️ you are a blessing to your local wildlife 😊

[@MomPuff-b9w]

Dear beautiful Robbie thank you so much for making my day!! God bless you, Gary & Zoe 🙌🏻🫶🏻🤗🦋🙏🏻

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Thank you so much❤

[@donnatiller4215]

Thank you Robbie. Just started feeding our finches, blue jays and hummers. More are starting to come and I'm so happy. Bought the right stuff and more hummers are here in Southern Oregon. Don't care if it rains or snows because I've got covers for all. Thanks!!

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Wonderful! The birds there love you ❤️

[@melindaroth5796]

Oh this is going to be great information 😊❤

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

I hope so 😊Thanks❤

[@jess65963]

In Maine too, squirrels everywhere!! Red ones gray ones large and small.😅😅😅 . I live on the coast so I must include seagulls. They eat EVERYTHING!

[@coldspring624]

Very good. Here in the northern great lakes area I use 2 types plus cracked corn. White millet, and black oil whole and chips. The corn is turkey , grouse and dove. The white millet is all ground feeders . I had to stream line the feed types as we go through one and a half to two tons a year and it is not going down in price here.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

That is true, seed is not going down in price. Thanks for all the info here very interesting❤ again thank you

[@VioletG629]

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[@JulieMelberg]

It's always a joy to watch you two!

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Thank you so much ❤️

[@pandorafox3944]

If I have leftover chicken feed, I give it to the wild birds. They love it! 😊

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Good to know!❤ Thanks for sharing this

[@Beckery49]

What is left over chicken feed? Mine eat anything and everything they can reach.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

@ 🤣❤️

[@fingerlakespreppergrl]

​@@Beckery49I was wondering the same thing

[@susanm7354]

Thank you. The straight thistle seed is expensive! I’ll switch to the finch mix and parakeet seed. Again thank you

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Try different seed mixes until you find an affordable one that your birds like❤

[@susanm7354]

Thank you

[@makeupaddict4197]

Love your channel and your love for birds. I have a similiar set up in my yard and made bird baths from one of your videos. 😅.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

That is so wonderful ❤️ Thank you so much 😊

[@graceinthegarden9151]

Thank you. Great information to have.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Our pleasure!❤ Thanks

[@Mo-mr8vv]

Ty! I would have never thought to do this!

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Thanks 😊

[@christinabalas3218]

For all my Canadian bird lovers please visit Pick of the Birds. They are in Manitoba and I buy them through RONA shipped to my door. I buy the shelled sunflower seeds and raw peanuts. They are expensive but worth every penny. The birds absolutely love them! It's also nice to support a local grower. The finches eat at the feeders and the juncos eat the small pces that fall below. Very little mess or discarded seeds. Easy to clean up to deter rats - they also love them :)

[@Mckersnoopy]

Hi Robbie,I started watching your videos about 2 years now. You inspired me to do so many things for the birds and the garden. I put a fountain in my backyard because I have several hummingbirds, and this summer, I have yellow finches Bought food for them 2 weeks ago, but they're not eating it Can you please give me some info on how to attract them to the food?🙂🌻Thank you! for everything you do for the wildlife

[@shirleywilhelm1495]

I don't use millet. When I use up shelled sunflower, peant pieces. I'll be using Nutrasaf. Plus I feed in shell peanuts for Blue Jay's.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Interesting thanks for sharing

[@geniusatwrok]

Hi Robbie, can you make a video talking about your experience with protecting birds that visit your yard from hawks, as well as minimizing risks of salmonella and other illnesses?

[@susanjordan2130]

I love birds and used to feed them, lots of them in my garden including a few hummingbirds which were my favorite. I still put out bird food, but the small birds have quit coming around the last year and a half. I guess it is because a beautiful young feral cat adopted us and my daughter fell in love with this cat. He is a sweet cat, but now we have no birds. He does keep the mice and rats away, which I am happy for. But sad to have no more small birds, only doves and big birds. 😥

[@Angelface11]

Get him fixed and put him inside....you can also keep feeders super high

[@betht390]

Hey Robbie do you have a video on how you construct one of those platform feeders for the wire racks? I get pigeons hanging off my feeders even after hanging chains thinking they’ll be afraid of getting their wings caught- nope they eat and spill most of the seed out. Thanks for the tip of using cage bird seed because most of the seed is dropped and tossed out by the sparrows. Thanks Robbie!!

[@EarthWarZone]

Hello Robbie! I am in SoCal too. I started feeding the hummingbirds this winter. I started at about 16oz of sugar water every 4 days. In the summer I had to up it to 28oz every 2 days because so many would start coming. Now the last couple of weeks I'm doing 48oz every day. There is so many! I wish my neighbors would help! When can I expect activity to die down? I heard migration to Mexico starts in the winter but I know some of the hummingbirds stay here year round.

[@cathymarshall366]

Hi.We live in lower NY state and I grow some sunflowers along a fence.I noticed these yellow birds land on them and pick the seeds right out of the heads and I realize now they are finches,so they apparantly are very able to split them open and eat the insides.Between the finch and the squirrels -they ruin the sunflowers but thats ok.Ty for your great info on feeding birds!

[@LVSpeedweLL]

Fantastic info! I’ve moved to NM from east of the Mississippi and I’m learning which birds are here. Adding to landscape to make it attractive for more birds Sub’d🙏🏼🪶Your 🐦feeders are brilliant 👍🏼

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

What you are doing there is wonderful, the birds will love you for all that, and stick around to take advantage of it😊❤️😊

[@carolthomas3875]

Insect eaters eat suet in cold weather. I get warblers and kingets on my suet feeder in the winter.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Great info! Thanks for sharing this! ❤️

[@leahpitman2731]

Have you found a good price anywhere for millet?

[@toomanythoughtsinmyhead]

Hi Robbie, regarding celery, could you or maybe one of your other viewers please refer me to any video you've done with information on growing celery? I have a few plants that survived the summer and they're HUGE and inedible now, but I noticed some new growth. I have never grown celery before and as you know there's precious little GOOD info on gardening in our climate (I'm in the IE). So, what do I do with the celery? Leave it alone? Pull it? Trim it? Cut it back hard? Thanks so much!!!!!!

[@LibbysBackyardWildlifeHabitat]

Great video!

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Thank you so much 😊

[@LibbysBackyardWildlifeHabitat]

@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy You're welcome!

[@MellowWind]

Parakeet, finch, sunflower. Thanks.

[@debbiekozak2232]

I love your cages. Did you make them yourself?

[@BobbieJo-p3h]

How do you keep the bees off the hummingbird feeder?

[@claireledoux1681]

Thank you❤

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

You're welcome 😊❤️

[@venusolson7816]

Love your videos. ❤️ this year I have mice. So I have to take down my bird feeders. HELP!!

[@peggyewoniuk1478]

Where are the squirrels - here in VA the birds hardly stand a chance at bird feeders.

[@petekeefe3249]

I love it I do it but it can get expensive

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

Walmart got a bag of wild birdseed. It’s cheap and the birds like that too.

[@bambismomkelly7423]

Where did you get your bird feeder? It looks like it is squirrel proof. Did you make it or buy it?

[@lovewillwinnn]

How do you keep squirrels out/ away

[@ganymeade5151]

Beautiful birds.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

They are Thanks❤

[@Angela-f4g]

Just read Pepper trees get hollow in time and bees move in!?

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

We have had bees move in, not usually an issue though 😊❤️ thanks

[@TheAAnne123]

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[@cynthiarobinsmith3712]

Robbie, you may know, birds are dying because there is not enough of their own local, native plants - which produce caterpillars. Caterpillars are the MAIN bird food. (See Dr. Doug Tallamy+Audubon Society) This might be news to many folks here? Only a very small population of birds survive on seeds. Even though all birds will eat seeds -- birds are starving. (One baby bird needs (30) caterpillars each day until fledged, or they starve. Scientists have found dead baby bird nests filled with seed, btw.) PLEASE---just because birds are attracted does NOT mean they are receiving what they need to survive! Please, pass the word about this. I know you love birds and have a wonderful garden AND hopefully you have lots of local, native plants (Toyon, Coyotebrush, White Sage, Buckwheat and oak trees, are staples.) The Audubon Society's "Gardening for Birds" is a great, free resource. My own bird habitat, "Conejo Ridge Native Garden" is a resource in So CA L.A. County. Respectfully, I wish you and all here will learn more about this important issue.

[@TupeloHoney6104]

In the spring I put lots of meal worms and black soldier fly larvae out for my birds here in So. California. I've had blue birds and northern mockingbirds use my feeders for their nestlings and even bring the babies to visit once they have fledged. I keep some out year-round for my wrens and crows.

[@rogermartin404]

Blah! Blah! Blah! Blah!.... Blah! Blah! 🤣

[@mnp870]

Birds? The squirrels or crows get to it sooner than birds.

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

The crows and ravens don’t both the bird feed here. Squirrels do, I can slow them down😊

[@garysmith7832]

Can you still put Bird seed out when it rains. Is wet bird seed okay. Learn a lot from your videos.. Thanks

[@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy]

I forgot to talk about that in this video, I have talked on this subject before… now you are going to make me do I another on this 🤣 Yes, wet seed from rain is fine, make sure trays have drainage holes

[@garysmith7832]

@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy ok great thanks. Sorry