Feeder Birds You Can Attract To Your Winter Backyard | North America

Winter certainly is a great time to see so many wonderful birds close to home. More people over the recent years are realizing how wonderful of a time winter can be for backyard bird feeding. The potential to see a variety of species at winter feeding stations is very promising.

In this video, I’m going to go over a few Backyard feeder birds to see overwinter in North America and brief on what food and feeders you can use to bring them in.

Photos and videos provided by the following
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Birds Walking Down

Bob Carlyle

Joseph Luong

The Bird Garden Channel

The Bird Perch

Allan Dawson
Doug Reynolds
Endless Mountain Birder
Jeff Fortunato
West Coast A.N.

Timestamps:
What each bird likes to eat and the feeders to use
00:00 Intro
00:43 Black-capped, Carolina, Chestnut-backed, Mountain, Boreal Chickadee
01:24 Tufted Titmouse
02:00 Dark-eyed Junco
02:41 Eastern, Spotted Towhee
03:04 American Goldfinch
03:31 Redpoll
03:58 Blue Jay
04:23 California Scrub-Jay, Steller's Jay
04:43 Downy and Hairy Woodpecker
05:00 Pileated Woodpecker
05:23 Red-bellied Woodpecker
05:39 Northern Cardinal
06:26 Carolina Wren, Bewicks Wren
07:03 White-breasted Nuthatch
07:36 Red-breasted Nuthatch
07:57 Annas Hummingbird
08:32 Conclusion
09:06 Helping Birds in Winter

All maps from
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology / All About Birds

Music at Intro/Outro - Natural by EndlessLove
via YouTube Audio Library License

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Three Chickadees with maps (L-R)
1 Birds Walking Down

Three Tufted Titmice at Feeders

Three Northern Cardinal on feeders
Platform Feeder by Danuta Niemiec from Pixabay

3 White-breasted Nuthatches at Feeders

Three Warblers
Yellow-rumped Warbler by LesleytheBirdNerd

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[gettingold]

On a cold February morning you sure know how to cheer up a person. As always a great video. You are the very best

[susana.]

My favorite winter birds are by far cardinals and Blue Jays. They have such colorful plumage that they make the cold, dark winter days feel warmer and brighter. I love Goldfinches too, but I only see them in late summer when they come to feast on my coneflowers and zinnias. I have a platform feeder and a hopper style feeder (the "finch feeder"). Besides for swarms of House Sparrows and Mourning Doves, I am lucky to have White-breasted Nuthatches, Carolina Wrens, House finches, juncos, white throats, song sparrows, and sometimes a Red-bellied Woodpecker. Thank you for putting together another beautiful and enjoyable video, Lesley!

[elizabethanne]

We have nuthatches, woodpeckers of all varieties, juncos, cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, doves, titmice, wrens, but my favorite are our resident murder of crows. They come to my yard every day. There were seven, and someone has recently joined making eight. One of them is missing a foot so we call them Stumpy. Stumpy gets on just fine however and it is so wonderful to see them waddling about in the snow looking for all the scraps and seeds that I leave them. ❤️ I have a “meat” station at one edge of the woods, and closer to my house I have seed stations. And the binoculars are always right by my kitchen window.

[joelmiller]

My wife and I have a very vibrant, thriving backyard bird "sanctuary"! Cardinals, Blue Jays, Juncos, Titmice, 3 different woodpeckers, Chickadees, Mourning Doves, Sparrows, Finches all love their corner of the yard where peanuts in the shell, crushed sunflower seeds, black oil s.f. seeds, safflower, nyjer and suet are on the menu. Chatty and always entertaining, we love our backyard bird gang!!

[mc]

1:09 some extra info. Black-capped Chickadees do have a limited range in the southeast, since elevations in the 4000-6000' range along the Parkway have ecosystems mirroring the boreal forests of Canada. At the lower elevations within this range, Carolina Chickadees are known to hybridize with Black-capped, and the two species are known to mimic each others' songs. The Black-capped Chickadee dominates and is pure bred in this range only in the highest elevations of 5000+ ft. Thanks for the video Leslie, a Baltimore Oriole migrating through my area stopped at one of my Hummingbird feeders for a snack yesterday afternoon. It's awesome out there.

[josephbailey]

Hey Lesley, It’s great to see so many of our buddies featured together. I would have added the house finch. They usually show up in flocks in the winter and their bright colors are so welcome in an otherwise dreary landscape.

[WalkScripture]

So far our feeder birds this year are the typical chickadees, white and red breasted nuthatches, juncos, blue Jays, tufted titmouse, downy and hairy woodpeckers, and a cardinal couple.
We’re in SW New Hampshire and can only put feeders out when the bears are hibernating

[marceld]

Mourning doves, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Black Capped Chickadees, Downy Woodpeckers, American Goldfinches, White Breasted Nuthatches, Red Bellied Woodpeckers, European Starlings, American Robins, House Finches, Northern Flickers, and of course House Sparrows are my childhood birds.

[BrittanyS]

I have 2 that come daily!! I have put out aton of food and had 2 flocks come and eat but the bigger black flock they all sit on a transformer wire 6miles from me lol. And the other flock about 800 or more flew in and I seen them on my main road coming home and that flock is a small bird. I was sitting in my car and that flock came in and swooped to one yard my neighbors next to me. They did a wave like motion over my car I was sitting In lol it was the coolest thing to see ever!!!!they made a wave over my car from my neighbors lawn over to mine lol. When I'm driving down the side street to get to my drive way the blue Jay's just start talking so loud and it will be one talking and than you hear a ton more. They get excited when I pull into the driveway lol.

[minniepalmer]

There are three chickadees at the bird feeder as I am watching this video.😀 Between your stunning photos and beautiful narration, this was a pleasure to watch. Thank you! Love all the feeder birds so much!😀🐦

[cindydufala]

I love your videos, Lesley. And i love the comments from viewers from everywhere. We all share the earth. Peace ✌🕊🦅to all.

[greatalaska]

Watching your vids has inspired me. Yesterday I had around 300 red polls off the front porch in our mayday tree, fighting over our 3 feeders. I was shoveling snow and decided to sit on the steps next to the feeder, when a couple birds decided my hat brim would make a good perch. We even had 4 moose come in one pack and the bull moose was eating the seed the birds had dropped.

[thegunsngloryshow]

When the hamburger pan cools, I scrape off the fat and leave it in the snow. The Chickadees love it.

[AniFam]

They all still look pretty and colorful on snowy days~
Thank you for sharing this video~🤗

[exuberant]

🙋
We have in Ohio Juncos, nut hatches, Cardinals, tufted titmouses, red bellied woodpecker, downy woodpecker, Northern flickers, song sparrow, lots of robins.
The birds make their rounds so we don't see them all the time.
I have put out high energy suet, sprinkled peanuts, and raisins on the ground. Only 1 Junco has discovered the peanuts and raisins on the cement of the patio.
I put the suet in the crevice of trees.
I watched the red bellied woodpecker fill a hole in a tree with his peanuts he'd found. When that was full he flew off toward our woods to hide a peanut else where.
Our cottontail rabbit is leaving prints in the snow every where.
😀

[Terri_Stauffer]

Favorite visitor hands down to feeder is Pileated Woodpecker cause he comes so seldom and is a sight to see trying to eat from suet or feeders. He is more often seen on the fallen trees or digging out cavities getting insects in the trees. But I love them all chickadees, juncos, Titmouse, nuthatch blue jays, cardinals, downy woodpecker, red bellied woodpecker, and mourning dove are all daily visitors. Then I have American goldfinch, white throated sparrow, and red breasted grosbeak, a long with a few unidentified that visit on occasion. But the interaction between Papa cardinal and the blue jay is a sight to watch. Papa cardinal will go after bluejay if he gets too close and if his little warning doesn’t work they go aerial to battle and blue jay flies away. I wish I had video as it’s a sight to see, my friend could not believe it when she witnessed it.

[hankthebirdman]

Tufted Titmice are so CUTE!!! Would love to see one!

[gourdsbyjm]

Yes to all of the above except the western birds. I have them all at one time or another and they each have their very own attraction for me.

[brendapaul]

My favorite is the black capped chickadees. They are cute, tough, and one will land on the container that I bring food out with. I put seed on the ground here as well as the feeders, most of the birds like it especially the mourning doves and dark eyed Juncos.