Birdfeeders

Plain white bread is great to add to your backyard feeding assortment. l love to stop by the discount grocery stores and pick up the cheap loaves and stick them in the freezer to use as needed. The birds that most commonly visit our yards love to find broken up pieces in our platform feeders. Robins, mockingbirds, house sparrows and grackles just love to find this treat, but there are many other baked goods that are also welcomed. What a great way to use up those stale donuts, muffins or other breads like cornbread, zucchini bread or banana bread. How about that last piece of cake that you were about to throw out? Give it to the birds! Insect eating birds like wrens, mockingbirds, thrashers and woodpeckers will quickly grab chunks to take away and hide. I know people put baked goods right on the ground and this is fine, but in our yard, we prefer putting them in the hanging platform feeders so they are not taken by “the creatures of the night”. Any dry baked goods are perfectly fine to feed to the birds, but throw away any that are moldy. The birds will just avoid them.