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hello. if i was to buy a few bird feeders and hang them up. will it
attract birds that will eventually make nests in the trees? is there any
particular bird that eat flying insects like mosquitos and gnats and perhaps
small spiders? if so what type of bird and what food would i need to add to
the feeder to attract them?

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Almost all birds eat bugs. Most eat ants and small spiders. If you bring
birds into your yard, they will eat bugs too. Put out tube feeders with
black oil sunflower seed for the small birds like chickadees and
goldfinches, mixed wild seed on the ground for sparrows, suet for
woodpeckers. Let's see what you get. BTW, planting sunflowers will bring
the birds in too... they act as natural feeders.
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Tammie
Zone 2b-3a Far Northern Ontario
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hello. if i was to buy a few bird feeders and hang them up. will it attract birds that will eventually make nests in the trees? is there any particular bird that eat flying insects like mosquitos and gnats and perhaps small spiders? if so what type of
bird and what food would i need to add to the feeder to attract them?

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Have you looked into putting up some bat houses? Bats feed themselves
on the very insects you want to get rid of.

[...]

Along with the feeders, don't forget to add a source of water. A birdbath
or small pond is great, but even a small bowl that you keep filled with
fresh water will attract a lot of birds. The larger birds and ground
feeders, robins and doves and such, visit my pond, but I keep a dog bowl
filled up on my deck, and get a lot of songbirds there.

Shrubs that provide cover, and berries for food, are a good investment, and
birdhouses also are a good idea.

Sue

Zone 6, Southcentral PA


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particular bird that eat flying insects like mosquitos and gnats and perhaps
small spiders? if so what type of bird and what food would i need to add to
the feeder to attract them?

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If you fancy them, Purple Martins are acrobatic. If you put up a proper
hose for them and wait a year or so, it should start filling up - if you
have enough bugs for them. They don't eat else, so they do a job.

Flying spiders?

Martins don't land on the ground, so they aren't going to eat anything that
doesn't fly. Maybe a variety of birds would be your thing.

Martins are sometimes hated by bee keepers, so if you have any of them in
your neighborhood they may not be such a great thing.

Tom Ellison


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attract birds that will eventually make nests in the trees? is there any
particular bird that eat flying insects like mosquitos and gnats and perhaps
small spiders? if so what type of bird and what food would i need to add to
the feeder to attract them?

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Ken Schumm wrote in message
Have you looked into putting up some bat houses? Bats feed themselves
on the very insects you want to get rid of.

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I seconded that......I'm going to attempt to attract some this year. I know
I can build a bat house.....but how to attrack them is another problem.

Cheers,
Jim

"Tom Ellison" wrote in message
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If you fancy them, Purple Martins are acrobatic. If you put up a proper
hose for them and wait a year or so, it should start filling up - if you
have enough bugs for them. They don't eat else, so they do a job.

Flying spiders?

Martins don't land on the ground, so they aren't going to eat anything
that
doesn't fly. Maybe a variety of birds would be your thing.

Martins are sometimes hated by bee keepers, so if you have any of them in
your neighborhood they may not be such a great thing.

Tom Ellison

This is Turtle.

I have been told that a Martin can eat his weight in fling insects everyday.
hard to believe but I've heard it a bunch of time through the years. Purple
Martin type now.

TURTLE

The most important piece of bird attraction is water. I provide water, food in
the way of native plants (seeds in winter) a place to raise their young (plenty
of vines, trees, shrubs in a wide variety) and cover, as a result of the shrubs
I select.

You can put out suet feeders, but in summer the suet can become rancid quickly.
Birds which eat many insects are mockingbirds, martins, barn swallows. If you
have those, you will have birds which eat flying insects, grasshoppers and
spiders. Hummingbirds eat a lot of spiders, as well.



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hello. if i was to buy a few bird feeders and hang them up. will it attract birds that will eventually make nests in the trees? is there any particular bird that eat flying insects like mosquitos and gnats and perhaps small spiders? if so what type of
bird and what food would i need to add to the feeder to attract them?

thank


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In article , Requester wrote:

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hello. if i was to buy a few bird feeders and hang them up. will it =
attract birds that will eventually make nests in the trees?

The vast majority of nesting birds are territorial so if you have inviting
trees suitable for nest-building, you will likely have one por or perhaps
at most two couples nesting, but birds rarely nest extremely close to
feeding stations which are too "busy" for the large comfort zone needed
for nesting purposes, & if you have a collection of nesting boxes
scattered around the place, only one or at most two boxes are ever apt to
be used. You don't have to have a lot of nesting birds to have a lot of
birds visiting to eat insects, berries, & seeds from your garden. Many
birds have extensive territories, others are on their way north or south &
are only going to be around for a few days at best, so the trick is to
make your garden so bird-friendly there is a continuous flow of visitors,
some more or less local residents, the majority in transit.

is there =
any particular bird that eat flying insects like mosquitos and gnats and =

Though even seed-eating birds will eat some garden insects, few eat eat
gnats & midges & mosquitos. Those which do so include nighthawks,
swallows, a few others that mostly will never land nearby but could be
fluttering about the house at dusk & dawn -- & most especially: BATS! You
should read up on bat-boxes & try to attract bats to your garden. They're
harmless & helpful to have about.

perhaps small spiders?

Spiders are garden pals. They eat harmful insects.

If so what type of bird and what food would i =
need to add to the feeder to attract them?

For feeding purposes, birds are most comfortable in an area that is
enclosed by trees or very high bushes on two or three sides. They need the
trees to escape to quickly in case something disturbs the feeding stations
(cat, dog, person, hawk...) & vastly fewer birds will visit a feeding area
that is exposed on more than two sides.

They also very greatly need a birdbath or pond area, & a pond will attract
more insect-eating birds which aren't interested in the seeds. Worm- &
insect-eating birds will appear most numerously in the garden during or
immediately after the garden has been watered, & even the seed-eaters seem
to get more numerous & happy after a good wetting.

-paghat the ratgirl

--
"Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher.
"Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature.
-from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers"
See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/

Watch out the cats!

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In article nk.net,
SugarChile wrote:
Along with the feeders, don't forget to add a source of water. A birdbath
or small pond is great, but even a small bowl that you keep filled with
fresh water will attract a lot of birds. The larger birds and ground
feeders, robins and doves and such, visit my pond, but I keep a dog bowl
filled up on my deck, and get a lot of songbirds there.

If you do this, dump the water out and refill at least weekly, or it
will become a breeding ground for the mosquitos you don't want.

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