Or at least one step beyond 101. I've been reading a book about bird feeding and it's a lot more involved than I thought. Mike and Missy gave us the bird feeeder we have on the corner of the deck so I just bought a couple types of bird seed and we throw that in there and watch the birds. Fortunately it was the right type for most of the birds we see here. But there are special feeders and special seeds to attract particular birds. The easiest for us was to try a tube feeder with nyjer seed to attract goldfinches. It worked!! We've got four feeders now plus a suet feeder and we've got four kinds of seeds. We put the sunflower seeds in a squirrel proof feeder and use safflower seeds in the platform feeder and that cuts down the expense of feeding bird seed to squirrels. In the cold of winter, the birds appreciate the diet supplement and we've always got a bunch of them.
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