Wild Birds Unlimited

February is National Bird Feeding Month! That's right, an entire month dedicated to our favorite hobby. Who cares that it's the shortest and coldest month of the year, we'll take it! Celebrate with us all month long by feeding and enjoying your birds!

February is National Bird Feeding Month! That's right, an entire month dedicated to our favorite hobby. Who cares that it's the shortest and coldest month of the year, we'll take it! Celebrate with us all month long by feeding and enjoying your birds!

Last week was a very rough and emotional week for me personally. I was at the bedside of my mother in hospice. The facility was like nothing I had ever experienced. The wildlife outside the floor to ceiling wall was truly therapeutic to a hurting soul. While sitting holding her hand my Son looked up and said Mom look an eagle. A beautiful messenger in a time when you struggle to find meaning. For me this beautiful sight represents a very powerful thing. The eagle is a messenger, delivering messages to and from Spirit. So while an eagle sighting may be a message to you, it may also be an affirmation. Do you ever ask for a sign that your prayers and wishes have been heard? An eagle sighting is a confirmation that they have. If you have asked for spiritual guidance, the eagle is your direct connection to the powers that be. The eagle comes with a very clear message that things are indeed about to change and the time to be ready is now. Enjoy and embrace life. It is so very precious- Trisha

It’s Monday. The early bird may get the worm , but coffee makes some of us function just a wee bit better! Why not try a bird friendly coffee !

In winter, White-breasted Nuthatches join foraging flocks led by chickadees or titmice, perhaps partly because it makes food easier to find and partly because more birds can keep an eye out for predators. One study found that when titmice were removed from a flock, nuthatches were more wary and less willing to visit exposed bird feeders.

Happy 42nd Anniversary, Wild Birds Unlimited! Founded in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1981, we're proud to say there are now more than 350 Wild Birds Unlimited locations across North America. Here's to another year of bringing people and nature together!

Happy 42nd Anniversary, Wild Birds Unlimited! Founded in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1981, we're proud to say there are now more than 350 Wild Birds Unlimited locations across North America. Here's to another year of bringing people and nature together!

Meeting at the water cooler! The simple provision of a water source can attract and assist a surprising variety of wildlife!

Winter is a wonderful time to feed the birds. Not only is it a chance to help the birds get the necessary fats for surviving longer nights and colder temperatures, but it's also a good time to see a variety of birds visiting your feeders. For a limited time, Daily Savings Club Members receive a FREE Winter SuperBlend®️ Seed Cylinder with purchase of a bag of Winter SuperBlend®️.

Featured Bird: White-breasted Nuthatch
WBU Food: Winter SuperBlend® Seed Cylinder
Feeder: FeatherWeight Seed Cylinder Feeder

Project FeederWatch turns bird feeding into scientific discoveries. FeederWatch is a winter-long (November-April) survey of birds that visit backyards, nature centers and more. Bird counts help scientists track long-term trends in distribution and abundance. Click here to learn more: http://www.feederwatch.org

Did you know that wild bird populations have dropped by nearly 30% (or 3 billion birds) since 1970? Watching the birds and reporting your findings is one way you can help . When you participate in Project FeederWatch, you can make a difference.

Now through the end of January, our loyal customers can save money while helping to Save the Song Birds. Simply join Project FeederWatch and our partners at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will give you 50% OFF the annual participation fee ($9 value) for the remainder of the season, which runs now through the end of April.

Join now using the discount code: WBUPFW22. Then, count the birds on your schedule. You choose how long and on which days to count the birds, then enter the data online. Hurry! Offer expires January 31 and is valid for US customers only. Have fun counting the birds.

Register here: https://join.feederwatch.org/
More about how to Save The Song Birds: https://www.wbu.com/save-the-song-birds/

Did you know that wild bird populations have dropped by nearly 30% (or 3 billion birds) since 1970? Watching the birds and reporting your findings is one way you can help . When you participate in Project FeederWatch, you can make a difference.

Now through the end of January, our loyal customers can save money while helping to Save the Song Birds. Simply join Project FeederWatch and our partners at The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will give you 50% OFF the annual participation fee ($9 value) for the remainder of the season, which runs now through the end of April.

Join now using the discount code: WBUPFW22. Then, count the birds on your schedule. You choose how long and on which days to count the birds, then enter the data online. Hurry! Offer expires January 31 and is valid for US customers only. Have fun counting the birds.

Register here: https://join.feederwatch.org/
More about how to Save The Song Birds: https://www.wbu.com/save-the-song-birds/

Cardinal birds are a fascinating and beautiful bird species. They have this attractive color, especially the male birds that are pleasing to the eyes. Plus, Cardinal birds are known to be active songbirds that can sing various melodies. Think of how your backyard looks and sounds like if you can successfully attract cardinals into your property.

Aside from its physical and behavioral characteristics, the Cardinals also have many interesting backgrounds associated with them. Do you know any of them? What does a Cardinal mean to you ?

We've had our differences, but maybe it's time to call a truce, even if it's just for one day. January 21 is Squirrel Appreciation Day, and while they can be a menace, they're also pretty darn adorable and fun to watch. So enjoy your day, squirrels, because the truce ends on January 22.

We've had our differences, but maybe it's time to call a truce, even if it's just for one day. January 21 is Squirrel Appreciation Day, and while they can be a menace, they're also pretty darn adorable and fun to watch. So enjoy your day, squirrels, because the truce ends on January 22.

Wild Birds Unlimited updated their information in their About section.

Wild Birds Unlimited updated their information in their About section.

Winter is a wonderful time to feed the birds. Not only is it a chance to help the birds get the necessary fats for surviving longer nights and colder temperatures, but it's also a good time to see a variety of birds visiting your feeders. For a limited time*, Daily Savings Club Members receive a FREE Winter SuperBlend®️ Seed Cylinder with purchase of a bag of Winter SuperBlend®️.

Featured Bird: White-breasted Nuthatch
WBU Food: Winter SuperBlend® Seed Cylinder
Feeder: FeatherWeight Seed Cylinder Feeder

*See Store for Details. Offer valid in-store only thru 1/30/23.

Black-capped Chickadees seldom remain at feeders except to grab a seed to eat elsewhere. They are acrobatic and associate in flocks—the sudden activity when a flock arrives is distinctive. They often fly across roads and open areas one at a time with a bouncy flight.

Winter is a wonderful time to feed the birds. Not only is it a chance to help the birds get the necessary fats for surviving longer nights and colder temperatures, but it's also a good time to see a variety of birds visiting your feeders.

Featured Bird: White-breasted Nuthatch
WBU Food: Winter SuperBlend® Seed Cylinder
Feeder: FeatherWeight Seed Cylinder Feeder

What’s new Wednesday? Share with us by email, post on facebook or tag us! We love to see who is visiting your yard or any interesting birds you see in your travels!!

Birds rely on a high-fat diet to sustain itself during the long winter nights. Check out the latest post to learn how to help your feathery friends survive and thrive this winter: www.wbu.com/helping-to-tame-winter-for-your-birds

Are cardinals a brighter red in winter? Actually, yes! During fall and winter these dusky feather tips slowly wear off, revealing more and more brilliant red. The birds reach the peak of brilliance by midwinter ahead of the spring breeding season. Against snow-covered conifers, it's a feast for our eyes, too.photo credit unknown source.

We're proud to be the Champion for the National Wildlife Federation Certified Wildlife Habitat program, whose goal is to inspire everyone to create a haven for wildlife in their yard. It’s easier than you might think. Click here (https://www.wbu.com/certify-your-yard) to learn more.

For birds, the daily challenge is to find enough food to not only make it through each day, but also to replace their fat reserves for the coming night -- all in the course of limited daylight hours. Offering high-fat foods, such as our Winter SuperBlend®️, SuperSuet®️ and Jim's Birdacious®️ Bark Butter®️, is just one way you can help your birds survive the challenges of winter.

Featured Birds: Carolina Wren & Eastern Bluebird
WBU Food: WBU Seed & Suet Stackables®
Feeder: Mini Cylinder Feeder

Happy Sunday! Here is your weekly funny! Speaking of coffee… have you had a chance to check out the bird friendly coffee we have? And don’t forget about of large selection of mugs too!! ☕️

Tufted Titmouse is No ventriloquist’s dummy! Tufted Titmice have an alarm call that seems to fade off into the distance, giving the impression that the bird is moving from one place to another. Photo credit unknown

Our blends focus on two primary goals. The first is to provide ingredients that benefit birds most in terms of what they’re seeking nutritionally—energy, fat, protein, calcium, etc.—We don’t use fillers or cereal grains, such as milo, oats or wheat, in our blends. Other providers will use cereal grains to cut costs and allow lower retail prices. Since birds aren’t attracted to cereal grains, they get kicked out of the feeder and down to the ground as birds look for their preferred seeds. Most of these kicked-out grains become waste, attract unwanted pests or germinate into unwanted plants under the bird feeders. That is a waste of the customer’s money and makes a mess of the garden area.

The second goal is to use ingredients that birds find most attractive. Most people feed birds because they enjoy that interaction with nature. We want our blends to enhance that interaction and the customer’s overall enjoyment of the hobby. This is reflected in our mission statement, “We bring people and nature together.”

There is a reason you don’t see birds at the gym trying to lose that holiday weight. They want fat! Learn how birds use fat and other strategies to survive long, cold winter nights: www.wbu.com/podcast/fatten-up-your-birds

Let’s have a little fun today!!How many have you seen this month so far? 22 Backyard Winter Birds in New York

Black-capped Chickadee
Northern Cardinal
Blue Jay
American Crow
Downy Woodpecker
Dark-eyed Junco
Mourning Dove
White-breasted Nuthatch
European Starling
House Sparrow
Tufted Titmouse
Red-bellied Woodpecker
American Goldfinch
White-throated Sparrow
House Finch
Song Sparrow
Rock Pigeon
Hairy Woodpecker
American Robin
American Tree Sparrow
Carolina Wren
Northern Mockingbird

It can be difficult for birds to find a natural source of open water in fall and winter. When they are unable to find open water typically birds will eat snow in the winter to get their water. Open water is incredibly important for birds to drink and bath in. Bathing even in the coldest temperatures helps birds keep their feathers in good condition. This is important for insulation (keeping warm in cold temperatures) and escaping predators. For example research has shown that chickadees with well-maintained feathers can sustain a 69° layer of insulation between outside air and skin. Birds also require water in winter to properly digest their food. For all of the reasons offering open water in the winter through a heated birdbath increases a bird’s chance at surviving the winter.

Offering your backyard birds a source of open water in the winter will also enhance your enjoyment of backyard birds. Whereas some birds in our neighborhoods do not eat seed and bird food from our feeders water is required by all birds. Through water you can attract an even greater variety of birds to your backyard including: American Robins, Brown Thrashers, Northern Mockingbirds, Northern Flickers, chickadees, cardinals, nuthatches, doves, woodpeckers, wrens, warblers, redpolls, finches, grosbeaks, jays and sparrows.

We're big fans of caffeine. We're really big fans of bird-friendly, shade-grown coffees that preserve native forests that birds depend on for survival. Click here to learn more: www.wbu.com/save-the-song-birds

I don’t know about anyone else, but I can tell you these days… I run on coffee.. anyone else? Here’s some good news- Coffee is abundant in bioactive compounds that promote health! Plus a few more things! Lowers your risk of type 2 diabetes, Protects your ticker (in quite a few ways), Boosts brain health (if you don't overdo it), Improves your mood — for longer than you’d guess, Gives your workout a measurable assist and May help you live longer! Surprised? And I’d coffee can do all that, wouldn’t it be wonderful to drink a brand that is also looking out for our feathered friends? Bird Friendly® Coffee is coffee that comes from family farms in Latin America that provide good, forest-like habitat for birds. Rather than being grown on farms that have been cleared of vegetation, Bird Friendly coffees are planted under a canopy of trees. These trees provide the shelter, food and homes migratory and local birds need to survive. Now isn’t that cool?