• Northern Cardinal in Dan & Melissa’s yard (October 2025)

    The new Hey There Mr. Chickadee Feeder is a type of tray-based bird feeder. Tray feeders can be fun. They are usually your birds' favorite type of feeder.

    October 2, 2025
  • Common Grackles in Vermont (June 2025)

    Common Grackles can bully smaller birds at your feeders in spring and early summer. Learn how to protect your bird feeders from them.

    July 3, 2025
  • Purple Finch, Mourning Dove, and American Goldfinch

    Bird feeding can help backyard birds or expose them to new threats. Learn simple changes that keep the birds at your feeders safe.

    February 20, 2025
  • Downy Woodpecker (male) in Dan's yard (September 2021)

    Birds will come to bird feeders at all times of the year, but be prepared to see a slow-down in their food consumption over the next few weeks.

    October 3, 2024
  • Pileated Woodpecker in Lehigh County (October 2023)

    Fall is hard on birds. Help them with high-fat foods, safer windows, lights off at night, fewer pesticides, native plants, and cats kept indoors.

    September 26, 2024
  • Ruby-throated Hummingbird

    Get your hummingbird feeders ready!  Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are working their way north on their annual spring migration. 

    April 4, 2024
  • Dark-eyed Junco

    Dark-eyed Juncos leave the Susquehanna Valley for nesting grounds to the north by mid-April. Learn how spring migration changes your yard.

    March 28, 2024
  • Eastern Bluebird (male)

    If you want to see Eastern Bluebirds nesting in your yard this year, you should make sure you have a nest box set up ASAP.

    March 21, 2024