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We all love toys. Adults love their electronic gizmos, their cooking toys, gardening toys, sports and fitness toys. Kids love every kind of toy from play stations to jungle jims. We know too that it is vital to a child’s social and cognitive development to be stimulated by different kinds of toys.

The same is true for birds. Bird toys play a crucial role in the mental and physical well-being of birds. Hanging toys made out of different colors and materials stimulate motor skills and reasoning ability. Music CD’s and sing-a-long jukeboxes encourage creative mental exercise where your bird can whistle and sing along to the melodies.

Are you a sports nut? Your bird could be! Challenge your favorite bird with cool, sports-themed bird toys to bring out the athlete in your bird. Increase their mental and physical exercise. (Be your bird’s personal trainer!) Help develop their motor skills and coordination. Watch as your bird uses his/her beak to grab and manipulate the toy parts as they move. See if they possess the mental toughness to compete!

How about bird bowling? Watch as your bird rolls the bowling ball into the hanging pins, stimulating its auditory and visual senses. Birdie Basketball will challenge your bird to net two-pointers into the closed end basket!

And yes! Birds can pump iron! Birdie Barbells let your bird display its muscle power by lifting and lowering the barbells like the best power bird weight lifters!

But do be diligent about safety when your bird plays with its toys. Some bird toys are not suitable for certain birds and can be very dangerous, even life-threatening. Bird toys that are suitable for small birds can be dangerous for bigger birds, and vice versa. Large parrots possess very powerful beaks and can easily destroy toys meant for little birds. Pieces of damaged toys can cause intestinal blockage, choking, and internal bleeding.  Read more...

A wild bird feeder in the cold weather can bring the birds closer to your window for watching also as becoming an excellent source of supplemental food for the birds. Ever hear the expression “eat like a bird”? Its pretty misleading as birds really eat lots, up to their own body weight in a day. In the the winter months especially they have to eat a whole lot to keep their energy up and their stamina high to keep warm.

Birds need food high in energy rich foods in the cold weather and that’s exactly where you come in. Keeping your wild bird feeder stocked with these foods gets the birds to your feeders where it is possible to look at them close up. Fill feeders with foods such as black oil sunflower seeds, safflower seeds, suet cakes, peanuts and Nyger (thistle) seed. Bags of mixed seed are often a waste. They have a lot of filler in them that the birds won’t eat that just gets scattered around. The more pricey feed which you know the birds will eat is basically less costly and much less wasteful in the long haul.

Don’t be concerned that by feeding the birds in the cold weather that you are making them reliant on you and they won’t forage for themselves. That is a fallacy. You’re delivering extra food that is simple to get for the birds during the cold months when natural food is in short supply. Given the choice between sunflower seeds and a nice fat worm or berries, the bird prefers the worm or berries.  Read more...

The Bird Houses and Bird Feeders Techniques
Posted in Crafts Hobbies and House and Garden

Swallows and Bluebirds prefer an uncovered area for their bird house location. And the Robins wish their nest underneath eaves in the trees. Now the nut-hatches and wrens are drew in to their bird house on deep down a tree line. Wooden bird houses are ideal for wrens, bats and also bluebirds. We can likewise add in a decorative bird houses to accent your yard and/or garden.

Bird houses for the bluebird are deeper than the nutcrackers, accepts, and wrens. Whereas, another thing for them is how it amazed me all the time are the birds inadequacy of working together from other birds in using the right bird house.

Likewise, most birds like to invade the people domains while they are free fleeing around. The simple solution to this is to place predator guard duty below or above your birdie house, that is, if you have troubles with so much predatory animal. A predator guard could consist of a thin sheet of tin about 18 to 24 inches high rapped around a post, pole, or tree. At the moment there are many know-hows used but I have found this to be the easiest solution.

There are numerous of different distinctive in bird feeders. We have seed feeders, thistle feeders, window feeders, globe feeders, hummingbird feeders, haven and cage feeders, decorative bird feeders and the brand-new squirrel-resistant roller feeder.

Remember to provide water for your wild birds. As bird baths are an excellent way to attract backyard birds. And always clean the birdbaths once you add or change the water to prevent the birds from passing diseases to each other.  Read more...

With spring almost upon us, pest birds will be scouting out new locations for nesting and roosting. They can do a lot of damage to your store. Here’s one area of your store that may be particularly vulnerable and what you can do to protect it.

Problem: Store signage—whether it’s constructed of glass, metal, plastic or even a composite material—is attractive to most pest birds.  Signs are usually elevated and often have a number of nooks and crannies where birds can conceal themselves from predators. Birds also like the warmth many signs offer, which comes from the lighted bulbs inside.  During daylight hours, sun filters into glass and plastic and acts like a solarium for birds, keeping them nice and toasty.

When birds build nests in signs, they leave droppings, feathers and other debris in and around them. This material is perfect kindling for starting a fire. But even if they don’t start a fire, these materials are unsightly and block out light. Eventually, the droppings will eat into the signage materials and destroy the sign. Either way, you’re faced with some very expensive repair and cleanup costs.

Associated with birds nesting in signs is the problem of bird droppings right below the sings. This can lead to dangerous slip-and-fall hazards for both employees and customers. The legal liability here can be ruinously expensive.

The Solution: The are a number of ways you can keep pest birds away from your signs. One of the best ways is to use bird netting. This is a far better alternative than bird poisons or BB guns—the former presents a health problem; the latter can leave holes in your sign.

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Building a bird house is very interesting thing to do. Everybody loves birds and you can provide these birds a place to live at your backyard. The bird house saves the birds from their enemies and provides shelter to them. Bird houses give an attractive look to the backyards with stylish painted bird houses. Keeping different color combinations attract different birds. And it also helps to witness some beautiful colored birds in your backyard and getting a chance to become one with the nature.

Birds like their nests at a height and you don’t have to worry if you don’t have a tree. The bird houses should be made at a height of six feet from the ground level which helps in attracting more birds. There are some species of birds those prefer a height of maximum twenty feet high from the ground level. By nature these birds are like that only that they prefer making their homes at such an elevation as they feel safer.

An appropriate bird house should be able to provide cover and protection for the birds. The bird houses should be able to protect them in all weather. It should also provide proper exposure to air. During the summer weather the bird houses should be kept shaded as the eggs needs proper temperature to get hatched. The bird houses should have the roofs that overhang at the entrance. The bird houses should be hinge gap from the base so that it could easily get cleaned.

Here are some guidelines before you make a final decision:

First and foremost it is very important to decide which type of birds you want to keep, so that the shape is appropriate. Keeping the openings small will attract small birds.  Read more...