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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.
TIDY DINING SOLUTIONS
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Attract a Variety of Birds With Peanuts
Providing peanuts is a great addition to the choices you offer your backyard birds. Peanuts are a high-energy food and a wide variety of birds really enjoy them. Birds such as woodpeckers, titmice, nuthatches, chickadees, jays and more will frequent peanut feeders. Many of their visits will be to carry peanuts off to store for the winter. We offer a variety of peanut feeders and accessories.
Peanut Pieces || 5 lb. - $10.49
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Attract Insect-Eating Birds with Mealworms
Loaded with protein, mealworms attract a multitude of birds to your backyard. They're a dining favorite of many birds, including wrens, chickadees, bluebirds, mockingbirds, robins, thrushes, thrashers, catbirds and woodpeckers. Place mealworms in a feeder with smooth sides and enjoy the bird feeding frenzy that follows.
Mealworms from $4.49
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Now Every Tree Is A Bird Feeder®
More than 75 species of birds have been spotted eating Jim's Birdacious® Bark Butter®. Created by Jim Carpenter, founder of Wild Birds Unlimited, our exclusive Bark Butter is a tidy food that is easily spread on tree bark or a Bark Butter Feeder to attract birds such as chickadees, nuthatches, catbirds, cardinals, mockingbirds, wrens, woodpeckers, towhees, Brown Creepers, grosbeaks, robins and more.
Jim's Birdacious Bark Butter - $9.99
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IT'S TIME TO TRY TIDY DINING
Dear Friend of Nature,
Admittedly, birds can be finicky and messy.
Just watch them at your feeders. Most birds will use their bills to sweep through the food in a feeder to find the one seed they think is the best to eat. They don't seem to mind that all the other seed is being spilled onto the ground for you to clean up!
Here are some tips to help avoid this messy scenario and to turn your birds into tidier dinner guests.
Rule number one for tidy feeding; avoid using bargain seed blends. They often contain large amounts of cereal grain fillers like red Milo and wheat, seeds that birds don't like to eat and most of which ends up on the ground. By using a high quality food, less of it will be rejected and left under the feeder.
Any remaining spillage can be kept from falling to the ground by placing a tray beneath the feeder. Round trays are perfect to attach to seed tube feeders and rectangular trays are perfect for hopper feeders. Trays also provide a surface to attract birds that usually avoid elevated feeders and typically feed only on the ground.
You can also offer a seed out of the hull such as sunflower chips, or a blend of seeds out of the hulls such as Wild Birds Unlimited No-Mess Blend. Hulled foods leave much less mess and debris below feeders and are especially well suited for use around patios and decks.
We encourage you to try our tidy dining suggestions so you can spend more time watching the birds and less time cleaning up after them.
Deborah & Ronnie Early, Store Owners
COMING SOON...
"How to Have a Tidier Feeding Station" and "New Foods for Your Backyard Menu"
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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.
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