Bird Feeders
Ace Hardware &
Hearth's helpful pros know that the people in
our community love to feed the local birds.
Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay region are home
to hundreds of species of bird and water fowl.
In our Pasadena store, we carry a wide variety of bird food including
seed, suet, edible yard decor and more.
Want to know how to attract certain birds
to
your yard?
Click below for a
list of regional birds, what they feed on, and
what types of feeders we carry that they'll come to!
The species you attract is determined primarily
by the seeds you offer. Black oil sunflower
is the hands-down favorite of all the birds
that visit tube and house type feeders. White
proso millet is favored by birds who visit
platform feeders (doves and sparrows). Ducks,
geese and quail will eat corn.
Many of the cereal grains (corn, milo,
oats, canary, wheat, rape, flax and buckwheat)
in mixed bird seeds are NOT favorites of birds
that visit tube feeders.
Watch a feeder filled with a seed mix and you'll
see the birds methodically drop or kick out most
of the seeds to get to their favorite --
sunflower. Birds will also kick out artificial
"berry" pellets, processed seed flavored and
colored to look like "real" fruit.
Seeds that wind up on the ground are likely to
be contaminated by dampness and bird droppings.
If the birds don't eat them, rodents will.
The most effective way to attract the largest
variety of birds to your yard is to put out
separate feeders for each food:
- starling-resistant suet feeder
- a house feeder for sunflower
- a bluebird feeder
- a wire mesh cage feeder for peanuts
- a nectar feeder
- a tube feeder for thistle
- a stationary or tray fruit feeder
- a house or platform feeder for millet
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