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Bird Oasis
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Maintained by:
mybirdoasis ( 4653 )     
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Attract more birds to your yard with bird feeders, birdhouses and birdbaths. We carry feeders for hummingbirds, bluebirds, woodpeckers, finches, orioles, and yes, even squirrels. You'll also find birdhouses, birdbaths, bat houses, binoculars, bird-themed gifts and more.
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Get ready for winter! Wild birds are already preparing for the harsh winter ahead and here's how you can help:
- Give all of your feeders a good, thorough cleaning before it gets too cold.
- Clean out nest boxes thoroughly as many birds use these in the winter for roosting sites during cold nights. You may want to add an inch or so of dry grass or straw on the bottom for insulation.
- Keep your feeders filled. Having a consistent, ready supply of food for wild birds is the most effective way to establish a population of winter resident birds in and around your yard. A well stocked feeder may also attract migrating species you don't normally get to see. And don't forget the suet!
- Offer a variety of food in a variety of feeders. Platform feeders, tube feeders, mesh feeders, suet feeders, etc. all attract different birds.
- Water should be consistently offered throughout the coldest winter months not only to avoid dehydration, but because many backyard birds must bathe year 'round to maintain their feathers for both effective and efficient flight. A de-icer can be added to an existing birdbath, or there are many good quality heated birdbaths available in our store.
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Bird Oasis, Your Backyard Birding Store!
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Bluebird Babies.
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We help people create a backyard oasis for wild birds and test many of the products that we sell on our 17 acre bird oasis. Together, Carol and I have over 40 years of retail management and customer service experience.
Our feeders are often visited by chickadees, gold finches, crossbills, purple finches, redpolls, grosbeaks, nuthatches, towhees, house wrens, juncos, bluebirds, quail, magpies, blackbirds, flickers, hairy and downy woodpeckers, and of course hummingbirds, lots of hummingbirds.
We live in eastern Washington on several acres, some of which are a portion of a lake. Our lake is home or a rest stop for many wild water fowl. We have Canada geese, swans, mallard ducks, wood ducks, redhead ducks, common mergansers, hooded mergansers, common goldeneyes, American wigeons, ruddy ducks, blue herons, and even a couple of bald eagles. Others who have stopped by to visit include moose, white tail deer, mule deer, raccoons, porcupines, coyotes, wild turkeys, skunks, and... so far... only one squirrel!
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Wood Duck Eggs
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> The wood ducks just hatched a few days ago, late June 2007. We saw mom with 20 chicks following behind her. I haven't been able to get photos of them yet. To the right you can see a picture of the wood duck nest in a nest box I built after one of the female wood ducks sat on one of our roosting boxes and kept looking in our window. Whenever we would look her way she would peck at the side of the box as if to say, please put a hole right here. Well I thought ok, maybe I should make a nest box, but soon got busy with other things and forgot. Well a few days later the same female wood duck, I'm assuming she's the same one, walked 150 feet uphill from the lake to our side yard, walked through our flower garden and started walking up the stairs to our front door. I kid you not.
When Carol opened the door the wood duck flew away, but Carol says that she was trying to tell us that she needed a nesting box so I was sent to the barn to build one.
Can you believe she flew in it right after I put it up. Those eggs must have been screaming to get out. A few days later, another female wood duck was sitting on the same roosting box with her husband pecking at the side again. Now I thought maybe it was the same one until I saw Miss Pushy Duck flying up to the box I already built. So I had to go back to the barn and build another box. Now we're experiencing the joy of what a contractor must feel when he sees children playing in the yard of one of the homes he built
Above is a photo of the bluebird nest out by our greenhouse. I was amazed at how neat mama bluebird kept those eggs. After they hatched, boy were they hungry. They've all flown the coop, now hungrily chasing their parents around.
We have a few domestic animals as well. \Two rescued cats, Jasper and Max. Jasper shares the barn with our eight rescued llamas: Horizon, Cruiser, Kiwi, Joker, Blizzard, Frodo, Sam and Oliver, and 3 rescued CL goats: Chloe, China and Moon, and their 3 babies: Sandy, Ty and Brandy.
We hope you've enjoyed reading about us.
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We're also working on more articles so check back soon.
John & Carol PatrickBirdOasis.com18118 S. Cherokee Ct.Cheney WA 99004509-714-7260
info@birdoasis.com
GO COUGS!
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