If you are like me you probably stop and stare at birds when you see them.

At least I do.

Hopefully I'm not the only one and I want more in my garden 24-7 365 so how do we actually get that done?

Well the first thing we can consider is using a bird bath so a lot of people have a bird feeder and skip the bird bath and it

could be a mistake because all birds like water and only some birds like the bird feeder.

So getting a bird watering section, whether that be heated or not,

like a bird bath, is a fantastic, fantastic idea. And that could be as simple as just a bird bath is a fantastic

fantastic idea and that could be as simple as just a little basin

of some kind.

So think about that, but then of course you do have to get

into the bird feeder. You just want one that's going to be easy clean to refill

you don't place it in a location that those seeds are going to germinate all over your garden

which I've done before in fact most of the sunflowers I've grown this year came from a germinated bird seed that had hit the ground and I just picked it up and transplanted it.

So that's a fun little tip. You can use them as a seed starter I guess.

Next you should use food that birds actually like.

So the thing to avoid here is to buy the cheapest birdseed. This is a situation in which you really do want to buy the higher quality stuff because it has a bunch of nonsense in it. So you have wheat, oats, Milo, these things. It's just a filler material and it

makes it extremely cheap to buy, but it doesn't matter if it's cheap to buy if it doesn't

really work, right? So you're still wasting your money. So the things you want, peanuts,

sunflowers, saffflower, niger seed, corn, mealworms, you can get, suet, and of course, nectar, when we're talking about actual liquid bird feeders.

So those are the things you want to see in your bird feed.

That's what's actually going to work.

Next, plant things that birds will either like to use as a food

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