If you’re looking for a place to spend that time off work… how about
looking right in your own backyard? With the help of Wild Birds
Unlimited and just a few accents and nature-enticing additions, your
backyard has the potential to be a place of relaxation and excitement.
Our wide variety of seasonally-appropriate bird food and feeders, wind
chimes, bird baths, garden accents and more – everything you need to
make the most of your backyard.
Bird Food Sale!
Select Bird Food Sale - Now thru 6/15!
Supreme Blend
The best mix of black oil and striped sunflower, safflower and sunflower chips.
Supreme Blend 20 lb. Bag || $20.23
No-Mess Blend
No shells or mess. A blend of Sunflower Chips, Hulled White Millet, and Shelled Peanuts
No-Mess Blend 20 lb. Bag || $26.33
Safflower Seed
The problem solver. Songbirds love it. Squirrels and blackbirds don't.
Safflower Seed 20 lb. Bag || $24.63
No-Melt Suet Doughs
We have a variety of no-melt doughs that will beat the heat and delight your birds.
No-Melt Suet Dough || from $2.19
Fathers Find Role for Raising Young
Dear Friend of Nature,
This month, your yard will become home to a new generation of birds.
But as you're watching fledglings chase their parents, beg for food and learn the necessary skills to survive their new world, look for the presence, or absence, of father birds.
Adult male birds' roles in raising their young differ greatly from one species to another.
For example, male hummingbirds do nothing to help raise the young, their only contribution is to mate with the female.
Chickadee and nuthatch males feed their mates while they are incubating and brooding, but both adults feed the young.
The Bird Father of the Year Award goes to the Downy Woodpecker. Though they share daytime nest duties with their female counterparts, only males incubate and brood at night and roost in the nest until their offspring fledge.
Downy males will also help feed the young after they leave the nest and assist in leading them to food sources such as backyard bird feeders.
Help your birds with high-protein foods like mealworms, peanuts, Jim's Birdacious® Bark Butter® and suet.
These energy-packed foods will entice your birds and their young back to your yard. The young birds will learn the location of your bird food and begin to make return trips on their own.
We carry all the foods you need to help your birds and their fledglings fill up. Stop by the store during our Select Bird Food Sale, June 1-15, for the best prices on the best bird food in town.
~Deborah & Ronnie Early, Store owners