Wild Things!

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.

 
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Mini Butterfly Bungalow
$14.99
Experience the magic of metamorphosis with this Butterfly Bungalow! The mini tent pops open with ease and gives you enough room for three live Painted Lady butterflies. This kit includes a care and instruction guide bursting with fun and interesting butterfly facts.
Live Butterfly Garden
$19.99
Our best seller for 40 years! The Butterfly Garden® brings the color and wonder of live butterflies right into the home in a beautiful reusable habitat. Watch nature at work as caterpillars turn into colorful Painted Lady butterflies – then release them into the garden!
Ladybug Land
$19.99
A metamorphosis kit for ladybugs! See live pink-spotted ladybug larvae grow into adult beetles.

 


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Defy the Doldrums with Goldfinches

Dear Friend of Nature,

Many outdoor activities may fall prey to the “summer doldrums” during these warm and steamy months…but backyard bird feeding is not one of them.

If you don't feed the birds in the summer, you will miss out on a growing cast of birds that are displaying their most dazzling plumage and interesting behaviors. High on the list for entertainment value is of one of our most luminous backyard birds — the goldfinch.

During July, long after most birds have started their families, the American Goldfinch is just beginning its nesting process for the first and only time of the year. You do not want to miss this exciting time of vibrant song and fascinating courtship behavior.

Lesser Goldfinch populations also nest in mid- to late-summer. However, coastal populations of Lesser Goldfinches nest in the spring to early summer.Goldfinch nesting coincides with the availability of plant down for nest construction and the abundant supply of their preferred food to feed their young.

Young goldfinches are dependent on their parents for at least three weeks after fledging. Their energetic begging, chasing and harassment of their parents for food at your feeders are truly some of the biggest payoffs of participating in the bird feeding hobby.

Goldfinches love to eat fresh, dry Nyjer® (thistle), and they also enjoy sunflower chips. Make sure you have plenty on hand to take advantage of one of the most exciting times of year to feed birds…it’s a sure cure for the summer doldrums!

Click here to download our guide on How To Attract Goldfinches.
  
 
Nature Happenings!

• June 12: New Moon, June 26: Full Moon

• June 14 - 16: Lyrids meteor shower

• June 21: Summer solstice - the sun is at its highest point in the sky. It's the longest day of the year and the first day of summer.

• June 26: National Wildlife Federation's The GREAT AMERICAN BACKYARD CAMPOUT™

• June is Perennial Garden Month & National Rivers Month

• Hummingbirds are attracted to the orange flowers of Trumpet Creeper vines when they bloom.

• Look for Teasel and Field Thistle blooming in open areas.

• Bird migration is finished. Birds that are here now are summer residents that nest.

• As the month progresses, feeders can become busy with visiting parents and fledglings.

• House Wrens are nesting in the northern part of region.

• Eastern species (Cerulean Warbler; Scarlet Tanager) are breeding at their western limit in the Ouchita Mountains of eastern Oklahoma.

• Snapping Turtles emerge onto land to lay eggs.

• Young raccoons emerge and venture out with their mothers.

• Bullfrogs begin calling.