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Welcome to Winter – Get Your Yard Ready with Suet
Rendered safely and made from a number of healthy ingredients, our suet options are seemingly endless and so is the...
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Tools to Keep Grackles and Other Problem Birds Out of Your Feeders
We pride ourselves on creating these pieces of content based on feedback we receive in the store as well as...
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How and Why You Should Offer Suet All Year Long
When it comes to suet, we often associate it as an melting and unhealthy food source during the summer heat...
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Why Our Plant-Based Hummingbird Nectar is the Best!
As we turn the corner into the middle of the month of August (yes, already), many of us are already...
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How to Properly Clean Your Bird Feeders Throughout the Year
Aside from placing window decals to prevent bird strikes, as an example, properly cleaning bird feeders is another way to...
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Choosing a Squirrel Buster Model
While the function remains relatively the same across all models of these innovative bird feeders, there are some slight differences...
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Hot Pepper Bird Seed and its Negative Effects
No matter where you live, the battle between birder and squirrel has been brewing since the advent of backyard bird...
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What to Feed Winter Finches
While many of us look forward to the spring months when our summer birds return from their tropical locales, this...
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How to Choose the Right Bird Feeder
One of the largest cohorts of birders we proudly service in our store is those that have recently decided to...
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Summer Spotlight: The American Goldfinch
From the perspective of striking plumage, not much can compare to the colourful enjoyment that is an encounter with an...
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How to Choose the Right Bird Seed
Birding or bird watching – it’s good for the soul. With millions of birders here in North America alone, it...
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Why a Fly Through Feeder is Great for New Birders
You’ve always enjoyed Mother Nature and everything she has to offer and have found yourself to have a particular affinity...
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How to Attract Finches to Your Yard This Winter
Each season of the year has its own unique draws for most of us in the birding world. While we...
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Where Are All the Birds This Winter?
This is a question we have faced in person in both of our Ottawa stores and online via our website,...
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The 2017 Gilligallou Bird Christmas Gift Guide
Well, here we are. A mere ten days ahead of Christmas and by all accounts, it certainly looks as if...
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Welcome to Suet Season – How to Offer Suet to Your Backyard Birds
For us and many of our valued customers, the true start to winter and suet season is when our good...
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Making the Transition from Fall to Winter Birding
While the early fall here in the Ottawa area was quite tumultuous when it came to weather, things have seemed...
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How to Keep Ants and Other Insects Out of Your Hummingbird Feeder
A problem plaguing birders around the world is unwanted guests, and when you are feeding your birds the very best...
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Three of Our Feeders That Make Maintenance Easy
When it comes to feeding our wild birds, maintenance matters. With the potential for the spread of illness and disease...
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How Birds Use Native Trees and Plants
When it comes to habitat creation, native plants, shrubs, and trees are the name of the game. With the risk...
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Tips for Keeping Your Backyard Birds Safe
The animal kingdom is a wild place, filled with both predators and prey all working in the balance of a...
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Dealing with Grackles, Starlings, Pigeons and Other Problem Birds at the Feeder
While we certainly do not like to discriminate against any bird species, there comes a time when watching your feed...
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A Few Tips on Pole System Placement
For some of us, the battle carries on from season to season as we work diligently in an attempt to...
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The Aggressive Nature of Hummingbirds and How to Deal with Them
Image: Flikr Small, nimble and fast are some of the words we often use to describe our cute little hummingbirds...
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Three Ways to Bring More Hummingbirds to Your Yard
Spring is a magical time of year here in the Ottawa area as our landscape begins to transform into the...