Gilligallou's Blog

Suet can be a great attractor for a variety of birds to your backyard, but as with any type of feed or feeder, there are certain guidelines that should be taken into consideration before setting up. Suet can at times, be a difficult feed to offer your birds, as you will need to select not […]  

Selecting the proper bird seed is something serious birders know, and something you should start practicing as well. Today, there are a variety of seed options to choose from, and what most folks don’t know is some seed on the market today can be quite harmful to your backyard birds. At Gilligallou, we do our […]  

Before we start, make sure that while all of the below feeding ideas are perfectly fine for birds, they are by no means a substitute for seed, and regular feeding. The items listed are to be view more as a treat for your birds, and can even be used to help birds with migration, when […]  

It might be a surprise to some, but these tiny birds embark on one heck of a migration, and often alone, unlike most birds that travel in flocks. There are only a select few species of hummingbirds that actually do migrate, but those that do can migrate for thousands of miles. Backyard birders, with some […]