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!


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
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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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