Backyard Certification


Below you’ll find a link to the National Wildlife Federation certification page. You’ll find an application to have your yard/garden become a certified wildlife habitat.

https://secure.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/certify/page1.cfm

I’ll be updating this page adding information you may find useful for completing your certification.

Please feel free to post any questions you may have while working toward certification.

I’ll see you in the backyard!

4 Comments

  1. Comment by Doug Russeau on October 11, 2008 10:07 pm

    I found this chart at http://www.birdwatchersdigest.com

    Backyard Bird Food Chart

    The experts at Bird Watcher’s Digest have compiled this informative food and seed chart to help you attract the birds that you want to your feeders.

    Quail, pheasants

    Cracked corn, millet, wheat, milo

    Pigeons, doves

    Millet, cracked corn, wheat, milo, niger, buckwheat, sunflower, baked goods

    Roadrunner

    Meat scraps, hamburger, suet

    Hummingbirds

    Plant nectar, small insects, sugar solution

    Woodpeckers

    Suet, meat scraps, sunflower hearts/seed, cracked corn, peanuts, fruits, sugar solution

    Jays

    Peanuts, sunflower, suet, meat scraps, cracked corn, baked goods

    Crows, magpies, and nutcracker

    Meat scraps, suet, cracked corn, peanuts, baked goods, leftovers, dog food

    Titmice, chickadees

    Peanut kernels, sunflower, suet, peanut butter

    Nuthatches

    Suet, suet mixes, sunflower hearts and seed, peanut kernels, peanut butter

    Wrens, creepers

    Suet, suet mixes, peanut butter, peanut kernels, bread, fruit, millet (wrens)

    Mockingbirds, thrashers, catbirds

    Halved apple, chopped fruits, baked goods, suet, nutmeats, millet (thrashers), soaked raisins, currants, sunflower hearts

    Robins, bluebirds, other thrushes

    Suet, suet mixes, mealworms, berries, baked goods, chopped fruits, soaked raisins, currants, nutmeats, sunflower hearts

    Kinglets

    Suet, suet mixes, baked goods

    Waxwings

    Berries, chopped fruits, canned peas, currants, raisins

    Warblers

    Suet, suet mixes, fruit, baked goods, sugar solution, chopped nutmeats

    Tanagers

    Suet, fruits, sugar solution, mealworms, baked goods

    Cardinals, grosbeaks, pyrrhuloxias
    (a type of cardinal)

    Sunflower, safflower, cracked corn, millet, fruit

    Towhees, juncos

    Millet, sunflower, cracked corn, peanuts, baked goods, nutmeats

    Sparrows, buntings

    Millet, sunflower hearts, black-oil sunflower, cracked corn, baked goods

    Blackbirds, starlings

    Cracked corn, milo, wheat, table scraps, baked goods, suet

    Orioles

    Halved oranges, apples, berries, sugar solution, grape jelly, suet, suet mixes, soaked raisins, and currants

    Finches, siskins

    Thistle (niger), sunflower hearts, black-oil sunflower seed, millet, canary seed, fruits, peanut kernels, suet mixes

  2. Pingback by The Backyard Gardener » Bird feeding chart on October 15, 2008 4:57 pm

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  3. Comment by Doug Russeau on October 25, 2008 11:21 am

    Here is a link to a bird identification page with photos and lots of other great information, including sound identification.

    http://www.wildbirdguide.com/commonbirds.htm

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