WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:09.279 Oh, I am alive it, don't you know? Litting nothing all major 2 00:00:09.359 --> 00:00:16.839 look, I major look. I'll make you double taste as I call up 3 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:20.920 your Kira practice doesn't get your next well, good Sunday morning. Tell you 4 00:00:21.559 --> 00:00:25.000 hey, I am. I am excited about this next hour. I've been 5 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:28.440 talking about this morning. But from eight to nine, Uh, we are 6 00:00:28.480 --> 00:00:32.880 gonna talk birds. And that doesn't that sound fun? I mean we are 7 00:00:32.920 --> 00:00:37.159 gonna We're gonna talk about everything birds. I've been talking this morning about the 8 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:46.320 advantages and the ways that birds bring another another factor to our backyard gardening experience, 9 00:00:46.399 --> 00:00:50.520 the visual and the audio and everything like that. And uh, I'm 10 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.600 We're fortunate to have Rich Eddie from wild Birds Unlimited this this morning, and 11 00:00:54.679 --> 00:00:57.960 Rich, I want to welcome you to the show. Thank you very much. 12 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:00.520 Good to be here. It's good to have you. We're gonna pick 13 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:03.039 your brain today. So if you guys, if you guys have a phone 14 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.599 question, you want to call in with a question about birds, that's what 15 00:01:06.719 --> 00:01:08.480 we're here far for this hour. So if you've got a question about gardening, 16 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:11.560 otherwise, we're gonna ask you just to hold onto that and we're gonna 17 00:01:11.560 --> 00:01:15.560 we're gonna stay on the topic of birds between now and nine o'clock. And 18 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:19.439 so we got Rich and here we go. We can we can pick his 19 00:01:19.519 --> 00:01:26.680 brain. Rich I got one of the wild Birds unlimited squirrel excluder feeders. 20 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:32.879 Oh, all back right, and I'm telling you it gives me deep great 21 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:38.760 joy to frustrate squirrels. They've tried everything and they cannot get into that. 22 00:01:38.120 --> 00:01:42.599 I watch a guy on YouTube that sets up obstacle courses for squirrels. I 23 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:47.000 don't know if you've ever seen what I have. Oh, it is entertaining 24 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:49.799 because the squirrels figure it all out. I mean, they're awesome, not 25 00:01:49.920 --> 00:01:53.159 this feeder. They're very smart. But those feeders are very effective. So 26 00:01:55.079 --> 00:01:57.439 I've got customers who really love the squirrels. Yeah, and I have customers 27 00:01:57.480 --> 00:02:00.959 who really don't want them on their feeder. So I know. So, 28 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:06.120 but the eliminator and the fundamentals either one of those are great feeders to keep 29 00:02:06.159 --> 00:02:08.120 them off. That's good. Yeah. Yeah. I have to be careful 30 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:13.479 because you know, I can't say things like tree rats. I can't say 31 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:16.560 that some people like squirrels. Oh, I just said it. I just 32 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:21.680 said it. Yeah, But I enjoy the birds. I mean the squirrels 33 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:23.439 are Okay, they're there. They're gonna be there anyway. But I've got 34 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:28.039 a garden, I've got tomatoes over there, and they're just little marauding vandals 35 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:30.919 when it comes to my garden, they are. I have a little bit 36 00:02:30.960 --> 00:02:35.080 of a caddyshack attitude toward the star. Well, this, this hot, 37 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.639 dry weather too, is really pushing them places that they may not normally go. 38 00:02:39.240 --> 00:02:42.240 Well, and I and I, you know, I feel mercy for 39 00:02:42.280 --> 00:02:46.639 any creature out there that's diana thirst. It's hot. Everybody needs water. 40 00:02:46.039 --> 00:02:49.919 Heard you're talking about the bees earlier. Yeah, yeah, I mean they're 41 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:53.639 definitely collecting around the bird baths in the fountains. That's true. That's true. 42 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:57.560 Well, let's talk a little about bird watering. Tell me about you 43 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:00.960 know, of course everybody knows living things have to drink, but tell me 44 00:03:00.960 --> 00:03:04.840 a little bit about watering for the birds in the backyard. Yeah. So, 45 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.199 you know, we have a saying in our store. Yet not all 46 00:03:07.240 --> 00:03:12.120 birds will come to a feeder, but all birds need water. And so 47 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:16.319 if you want to get a wide variety of really just any kind of wildlife, 48 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:21.560 adding water to your backyard is really important. So it could be a 49 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.439 bird bath. It could be a pond, there's always great fountains. Anything 50 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:30.800 moving water will help attract them. But having water, particularly in the migration 51 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:34.280 times in the spring in the fall. Again, those birds that are coming 52 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:38.680 through, they may not go to feeders, but if they see water, 53 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:40.919 they're going to make a stop because they need water to make their journey. 54 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:46.599 So yeah, it's very important, and right now really really important because it 55 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:51.800 is just dry. There's no standing water really anywhere, right And so I've 56 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:55.719 got five bird baths and fountains in my yard just kind of all over the 57 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:00.520 place, and they're all busy, so I'm very busy. That's awesome. 58 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:02.560 Uh yeah, I you know, when I go down into wallbirds, it's 59 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:06.039 like a toy store, a candy store or something for me. But I 60 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:10.919 was looking at you guys have beautiful bird baths. I mean they are they're 61 00:04:11.360 --> 00:04:15.879 you know, just like a focal point of the landscape. They're so pretty. 62 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:18.040 And then and then look gadgets, like there's something you guys have that 63 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:21.879 it like moves the water and causes ripples. So the mosquitoes don't lay egg 64 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:26.240 they don't like they want stagnant water. They don't want that's rippli water, 65 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:28.839 So tell me about that. Yeah. So moving water. So we've got 66 00:04:28.920 --> 00:04:30.759 a couple of different things. One of it is called our dripper mists, 67 00:04:30.959 --> 00:04:34.519 and so it's a it's a device that hangs on the side of your bird 68 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:41.199 bath and it will constantly drip and so that moving water will drown the mosquito 69 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:45.319 larvy. And that's why moving water not only kills the mosquito arvy, but 70 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:49.199 it also attracts the birds. So having moving water like that, so the 71 00:04:49.240 --> 00:04:54.040 dripper mist is good. Um. It has a misting tip that you can 72 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:58.800 put in it. So with the hummingbird season coming up, humming birds they've 73 00:04:58.839 --> 00:05:01.800 got to clean their feathers just like other birds do, but you know, 74 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:04.639 heavy drips and things like that are a little harder on them. So they 75 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:09.279 love to fly through the mists and get themselves wet and then go off and 76 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.839 preen their feathers. That's cool. I've seen video of that and that's pretty 77 00:05:12.879 --> 00:05:15.519 neat. So this is a little device, like he said, it hangs 78 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:17.399 on the bird bath, but it's actually a little tube that comes up and 79 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:20.839 bends over and either drips or as you say, miss or miss Yeah, 80 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:25.160 and you just attach it to an outdoor faucet. So yeah, so those 81 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:28.720 work really well. And then we've also got little solar bubblers. So the 82 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:31.319 solar bubblers work really well as long as their sun, which we've had no 83 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:38.480 lack of over the last couple of months, and those those will recycle the 84 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:41.839 water and keep it moving as well. Well, good, well, we've 85 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:45.360 got Marty in Fairfield. We're gonna go listen to a bird question. Okay, 86 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:47.560 so here we go. If you're if you have a bird question, 87 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:51.560 the number seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Well, 88 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:57.360 good morning, Marty, good morning. I just wanted to ask while birds 89 00:05:57.360 --> 00:06:02.759 and lapses, it's Richard, it is, Yes, okay. I I 90 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:08.759 love y'all's stores. They're so cool and I just can't get enough of all 91 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:11.839 the products. But I do want to have a question about, um, 92 00:06:12.079 --> 00:06:17.560 how do I keep the trash birds from hanging around and keeping the good birds 93 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:23.959 away? Yeah? So yeah, are you talking like starlings and grackles? 94 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:29.959 Probably yeah, yeah, yeah, So a couple of things about well, 95 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:35.040 starlings are a different problem than grackles. Grackles or they don't particularly like safflower, 96 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:40.560 So people who want to keep blackbirds grackles off of their feeders. If 97 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:45.639 you go to a straight safflower, UM, they don't particularly like it, 98 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:48.120 so they'll move on. That's that's one thing that you can do. UM. 99 00:06:48.279 --> 00:06:53.480 The other thing is is that we do have predator guards that you can 100 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:57.720 put over your feeders. We've got one. It's like a cage. It's 101 00:06:57.759 --> 00:07:00.600 got a two inch opening, so they'll let birds cardinal sizing down in. 102 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:06.120 Now that won't keep starlings out. We've also got a new device in that's 103 00:07:06.120 --> 00:07:11.839 actually more ornamental and it's got chains that drape down over the feeders so it's 104 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:16.120 not quite as intrusive looking, and that also works very well to keep the 105 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:20.439 big birds from coming in and dominating the feeder. Hey, Marty, we're 106 00:07:20.480 --> 00:07:24.120 gonna have to take a break here, but I just need to cut in. 107 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:26.439 If you want to hang on after break. If if there's more to 108 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:28.920 your question, that's fine. If not, thank you so much for calling 109 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:31.839 in. I appreciate that. Hey. Our phone number is seven one three 110 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:36.519 two one two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight 111 00:07:36.680 --> 00:07:41.639 seventy four. We're here with rich Eddie from Wall Birds Unlimited, and we're 112 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:43.879 talking birds all day. When we come back. I think we're gonna talk 113 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.560 about hunting birds. I've been wanting to get to that one. But hang 114 00:07:46.600 --> 00:07:55.399 around, we'll be right back, katrh Garden Line does not necessarily endorse any 115 00:07:55.399 --> 00:08:00.279 of the products or services advertised on this program. Welcome to Kate the r 116 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:26.720 H Garden Line with Skip rictor just watching as well. Good morning. You 117 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:31.040 are listening to garden Line this morning. Hey, if you are interested in 118 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.200 a new tree for your place and you're looking for a good deal and a 119 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:37.960 good tree and people that know how to plant it, that would be Verdant 120 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:41.519 Tree Farm. You know. Verdant has three locations are out there on Barker 121 00:08:41.559 --> 00:08:46.720 Cypress. They've got a location down in um U Gosha. Can't even say, 122 00:08:46.840 --> 00:08:50.279 I just went blank for a second. Thank you, in the pair 123 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:54.360 Land on Broadway Street, and then up in the Heights where Yo comes into 124 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:58.320 I ten, there's a Verdant location there. Here's the deal right now for 125 00:08:58.519 --> 00:09:03.759 July, there's a Christmas in lil ten to fifty percent off the trees when 126 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.080 you purchase them with an install, and you need to buy them with an 127 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.720 install because they know how to plan them and you get a big old tree 128 00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.279 in there. You got to have somebody who knows what they're doing. And 129 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:16.039 plus you know, I keep making the comment about you got to disappoint your 130 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:20.840 chiropractor by not trying it yourself. Right, Well, they ten to fifty 131 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:22.600 percent off. That's for the tree. Now the install separate. You pay 132 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:26.679 for the install separate. But what a deal. I mean, if you're 133 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:30.240 looking for a quality tree, that's what they grow. If you're looking for 134 00:09:30.279 --> 00:09:33.919 people that know how to effectively establish it so it survives, that would be 135 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:39.240 verdant tree form. Well, we're here today with Rich Eaty and we are 136 00:09:39.279 --> 00:09:43.960 talking all kinds of things birds, but I want to kind of shift gears 137 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:48.159 a little Rich and talk about hummingbirds. I just think they are among the 138 00:09:48.200 --> 00:09:52.639 most amazing. You mentioned the little mister thing you guys have that the hummingbirds 139 00:09:52.679 --> 00:09:56.559 love to fly through preen their feathers and things. But let's kind of get 140 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.240 an overview of some things that you think people need to be aware of regarding. 141 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:05.519 Yeah, so we have two distinct migratory seasons for hummingbirds in the Houston 142 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:11.000 area. So they in the spring March through May. Those little birds, 143 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:13.799 believe it or not, across the Gulf of Mexico and make their way through 144 00:10:13.840 --> 00:10:18.720 the Houston area. So they're they're coming north out of Mexico, Costa Rica, 145 00:10:18.799 --> 00:10:24.360 Central America where they winter, so they're coming north and they're moving up 146 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:28.360 into their breeding ground. So some folks here in Houston are lucky enough to 147 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:31.799 have them all through the summer. Most of them move on. So even 148 00:10:31.879 --> 00:10:35.360 just as close as you know, Columbus, aust In, that area of 149 00:10:35.399 --> 00:10:39.360 folks there have hummingbirds all summer long. Wow. Yeah, but they go 150 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:41.679 all the way up into Canada, up into you know, the mountains of 151 00:10:41.759 --> 00:10:45.240 Colorado, all the way to the east coast, So I mean just the 152 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.720 United States is covered in them. And now the fall migration, we're about 153 00:10:48.759 --> 00:10:52.000 ready to get started on it. As a matter of fact, as over 154 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:56.200 at Edith Moore home of Houston Audubon and it saw hummingbird over there the other 155 00:10:56.279 --> 00:11:00.639 day hitting the turk's cap. So so there's just signs of them starting to 156 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:05.200 show back up. So the big months for us here in August September. 157 00:11:05.240 --> 00:11:09.200 October September is the biggest month. So not only are we getting the birds 158 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:15.000 that came north in the spring, now we're going to get all the birds 159 00:11:15.039 --> 00:11:20.320 plus the offspring coming back through to my great back to the south. So 160 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:22.840 yeah, so we'll have a lot of birds starting in August, September, 161 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.759 in October. And so when would you consider again the first like, when 162 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:30.919 would you put feeders out in the in the early season for you, Yeah, 163 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:35.039 so March, beginning of March, So March April may kind of tails 164 00:11:35.080 --> 00:11:39.080 off, but now I always sell folks first of August. Put your feeder 165 00:11:39.159 --> 00:11:43.679 up. If somebody is interested, if they've got a backyard that's got a 166 00:11:43.679 --> 00:11:46.320 lot of the nectar bearing plants like the salvia, turks cap, things like 167 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.159 that, you might start to see them on your flowers. If you start 168 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:52.440 seeing them on your flowers, go ahead and put your feeders out. Okay, 169 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.519 you are talking about the turk's cap and the salvias and things like that, 170 00:11:58.600 --> 00:12:03.120 And of course we're gonna talk about feeders and birds and birdhouses and all 171 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:07.080 kinds of things. But uh, planting for the birds is an important thing. 172 00:12:07.120 --> 00:12:09.879 And one thing I like. You know, we talk about buchanans here 173 00:12:09.919 --> 00:12:13.679 a lot. One thing I like about buchanans is they really focus on native 174 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:16.600 plants, and so things like a turk's cap, things like the native salvia, 175 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:22.799 some of the burying bushes, but even just good shrubs that provide birds 176 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:26.080 cover around the landscape. You know, you can do that. I was, 177 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.279 I was at Buchanan's the other day looking at some of the turks cap 178 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.559 they had and some other blooming things, you know, with the long salvia 179 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:37.159 like flowers and other red tubular flowers that attract them. And boy, that 180 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.159 that is something you need to do too, if you're gonna, if you're 181 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:43.879 gonna take care of your birds. Yeah. Absolutely, So we encourage all 182 00:12:43.919 --> 00:12:50.279 of our customers that we talked to to get your yards certified through National Wildlife 183 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:54.559 Federation. Okay, people can get their yards certified very easily. Um, 184 00:12:54.039 --> 00:12:58.360 all it really takes is, you know, to have um bird a place 185 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.840 for the birds eat, to drink, to raise their young, like a 186 00:13:03.000 --> 00:13:07.200 nest box or whatever. And then cover birds need cover to get away from 187 00:13:07.200 --> 00:13:11.360 harm. Right, So, when when the local cooper's talk decides to make 188 00:13:11.440 --> 00:13:16.399 his presence known in the backyard, having a thick shrub like um place for 189 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:20.720 them to dart into, it is important to give them a place to be 190 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:22.279 safe. That's good to know. Yeah, good to know. We'll tell 191 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:26.399 us some more things about hummingbirds. Uh, you know, having success with 192 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:30.240 hummingbirds, taking care of them and just to bring them in. Yeah, 193 00:13:30.440 --> 00:13:31.639 i'd like to. I'd like you to get you a dress. As you 194 00:13:31.679 --> 00:13:37.559 answer that, the idea of dyeing the sugar water red, you know, 195 00:13:37.879 --> 00:13:41.320 don't always been something people thought they needed to do, but but go ahead. 196 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:43.320 Yeah, no, we don't want you to do that. So when 197 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:48.639 you make your hummingbird nectar, we encourage folks just to use regular white table 198 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.320 sugar. And it's four parts of water to one part of sugar. So 199 00:13:52.360 --> 00:13:56.159 it really just depends on how much you want to make. Um all that 200 00:13:56.200 --> 00:14:00.639 sounds like what people do to their iced tea here in the South, exactly, 201 00:14:00.759 --> 00:14:03.480 right. So yeah, So I have a court jar and I feel 202 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.600 that. So it's four cups of water and I just put one cup of 203 00:14:07.600 --> 00:14:09.600 sugar in there. I just fill it with hot water. You don't need 204 00:14:09.639 --> 00:14:13.919 to boil the water, but just get it hot enough so the sugar will 205 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.759 dissolve well, right, and so and then I use what I need and 206 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:22.519 I put the rest in a refrigerator. So in the summertime, particularly this 207 00:14:22.600 --> 00:14:26.799 year, if you're putting out sugar water, you need to replace it every 208 00:14:26.200 --> 00:14:30.879 three days or so, because once if you put it in, it's gonna 209 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.600 look really nice, clear and bright. Within a couple of days, you're 210 00:14:33.600 --> 00:14:39.200 going to start to see that turn and so that'd be good to turn sour. 211 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:41.399 So that becomes not healthy for the birds. So you need to dump 212 00:14:41.399 --> 00:14:46.080 it, rinse it out, and refill it with clean nectar. Dyeing the 213 00:14:46.200 --> 00:14:48.120 nectar red. We do not want you to do that. It's proven that 214 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.200 the red food coloring is actually harmful to the birds. Most of the feeders 215 00:14:52.240 --> 00:14:56.159 nowadays have lots of red on them anyway, So it's the color of the 216 00:14:56.159 --> 00:15:01.440 feeder more importantly than the color or of the nectar. So yeah, well, 217 00:15:01.559 --> 00:15:05.519 I mean think about well, think about turk's cap. You got a 218 00:15:05.519 --> 00:15:07.960 big green bush and there's a red flower on it. You don't have to 219 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.360 paint the bush red together hummingbirds down, that's exactly right. Yeah. So, 220 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:16.960 and certainly if you have things in your yard like the salvia, turk's 221 00:15:16.039 --> 00:15:20.919 cap, lantana, milkweed, things like that that the hummingbirds love anyway, 222 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:26.960 they're gonna find your feeder almost automatically. So a lot of folks don't realize 223 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.240 too hummingbirds when they're coming through here. They're eating a lot of insects. 224 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:33.720 They've got to really fatten themselves up. So if you think about that little 225 00:15:33.720 --> 00:15:39.039 bird making a twenty hour trip across the Gulf of Mexico, they've got to 226 00:15:39.159 --> 00:15:43.279 really bulk up and get ready for that trip. And so wow, yeah, 227 00:15:43.360 --> 00:15:45.799 so they're eating a lot of insects. Of the nectar that's in the 228 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.600 feeders is giving them the energy that they need to continue to forage. That 229 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:54.159 is great information. If you're just tuning in, we're listening. We're talking 230 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:58.919 with Rich Eaty from wa Birds Unlimited about all kinds of things birds this hour. 231 00:15:58.000 --> 00:16:00.840 So he'll be with us all the up the nine o'clock. Give us 232 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.759 a call seven one three two one two five eight seven four. Rhin will 233 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.600 get you on the boards and we will talk birds with you when we come 234 00:16:07.639 --> 00:16:18.679 back. Black but singing in the dead of nine. Take these broken wings 235 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:30.159 and learn to fly all your line. You were only waiting for this moment 236 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:33.840 to run. Hey, we're glad you're listening to Garden Line today. We're 237 00:16:33.879 --> 00:16:40.080 here talking birds today. I have fortune of having a Rich Eaty with me 238 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.840 from wild Birds Unlimited, and we are going to be continued to talk all 239 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:45.960 kinds of things birds during break. We were just talking about hummingbirds. You 240 00:16:45.960 --> 00:16:51.120 know, think about this. You're you're a tiny little hummingbird, I mean, 241 00:16:51.919 --> 00:16:56.519 just little bitty things, and your wings beat sixty times a second, 242 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.039 and you're gonna fly all the way across the Gulf of Mexico with nothing to 243 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:04.480 land on. Just let you let your brain absorb that. How much I 244 00:17:04.519 --> 00:17:08.200 would have to take a truck load of energy bars with me for the trip 245 00:17:08.319 --> 00:17:11.880 just to survive it. It's just a miracle that they can do that. 246 00:17:11.400 --> 00:17:15.440 That's really cool stuff. Yeah, it is. I find it amazing. 247 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:19.519 There are guys that work in the offshore rig platforms and stuff. They'll see 248 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:23.200 humming birds as are making migration. It's not uncommon as well. Wow, 249 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:26.599 but yeah, I mean it's a it's a tough trip for them. I 250 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:30.000 mean they're they're putting their lives at steak to make that journey every year. 251 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:34.119 No kidding, that is cool stuff. We got a couple of questions in 252 00:17:34.160 --> 00:17:37.839 here, by the way, our phone number seven one three two one two 253 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:41.079 fifty eight seventy four. We're gonna go out to Parland first, Hey, 254 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:44.799 Kevin, I believe you've got a question about birds. Hey, good morning 255 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:49.000 guys. I just really got into birds in the past couple of years and 256 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:56.839 I've been buying my food at wild Birds Unlimited in Parland and it's just quite 257 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.200 enjoyable just watching them, you know, come and feed and I don't all 258 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:03.599 the different species and everything, but I've noticed last year that we had a 259 00:18:03.640 --> 00:18:08.759 lot more hummingbirds and this year I'm not seeing on my I mean when is 260 00:18:08.920 --> 00:18:14.960 technically humming bird season? Yeah, so yeah, so you're seeing Jeff down 261 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:17.920 there in the Parlance store. Just also got a new store over in clear 262 00:18:17.960 --> 00:18:22.720 Lake as well. Right now, you're not going to see very many hummingbirds. 263 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:26.319 It's just starting for the fall migration. So have your feed, are 264 00:18:26.400 --> 00:18:32.000 ready, watch your yard. But August September, October September is going to 265 00:18:32.079 --> 00:18:36.440 be the busiest month for seeing them in your backyard. Even in the springtime, 266 00:18:36.519 --> 00:18:38.240 you're not going to see as many. Even though the birds are coming 267 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:41.839 through, they've pretty much got one thing on their mind and that is making 268 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:47.799 it to their breeding grounds to the north. So for us right now Houston, 269 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:52.680 it's August September October September being the busiest month. That's when that's what 270 00:18:52.759 --> 00:18:56.079 I encourage folks. If you've ever noticed, the hummingbirds will fight over a 271 00:18:56.200 --> 00:19:00.200 feeder. One bird will guard that feeder like crazy. So if you think 272 00:19:00.200 --> 00:19:02.599 about it, they're trying to get ready to make that journey. So if 273 00:19:02.599 --> 00:19:04.960 they find an energy source like that, they're going to protect it. And 274 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:10.079 so I always tell people put up one more feeder than you have birds. 275 00:19:10.119 --> 00:19:14.519 So so you know, in my yard, I'll put up five or six 276 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:18.240 feeders, and so that gives the birds an opportunity to guard their own feeder. 277 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:22.079 But then I still get to enjoy a lot of activity in the yard. 278 00:19:22.119 --> 00:19:26.000 I get to watch them fight and bicker and carry on. So yeah, 279 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:30.960 so you're really just starting to go. So during the months of June 280 00:19:30.960 --> 00:19:33.880 and July, you're not really going to see many hummingbirds in our area. 281 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:41.200 Some folks do, but but that's not the not the prevailing. Yeah knowledge 282 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:45.319 for everybody. Well, I appreciate it very much, man, Thank you 283 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.240 all, Bret Show you bet, thanks for call. Appreciate that. Kevin 284 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:52.119 h We're gonna head now over to Claire Lake City and talk to Steven Well. 285 00:19:52.160 --> 00:19:59.119 Good morning, Stephen, Good morning, sirs. Apparently you knew what 286 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:04.440 I was going to ask about my significant other and I live in two different 287 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:10.759 places and we've put up as many as three feeders in each place, and 288 00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.000 there's that one garden dog bird just chases all the other birds away. Yet 289 00:20:15.079 --> 00:20:21.319 we were in a ranch down near Fredericksburg that has a ton of feeders. 290 00:20:21.400 --> 00:20:26.759 They've banned the birds even and didn't see any of them fighting down there. 291 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:32.680 Um, is there anything else you can do other than yeah? Unfortunately, 292 00:20:33.240 --> 00:20:37.079 Yeah, Unfortunately for us in the Houston area, as they're getting ready to 293 00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:41.319 make that migration, they're they're pretty hondry and pretty protective of a food source 294 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:44.839 that they find. When you're when you're in their breeding grounds and they're they're 295 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:48.480 raising their young and things like that, it's very common to see multiple birds 296 00:20:48.519 --> 00:20:52.400 on one feeder. So um, So, like I said, unfortunately in 297 00:20:52.440 --> 00:20:56.519 Houston, that's gonna be that's going to be your experience, by and large. 298 00:20:56.640 --> 00:21:00.279 Every once in a while, you'll you'll be able to see a couple 299 00:21:00.319 --> 00:21:03.279 of birds decide to tolerate each other and land on the same feeder. But 300 00:21:03.400 --> 00:21:07.519 again, putting up more feeders is a way for you to see more birds. 301 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:11.640 Any other thing, too, is to is to put them at least 302 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:15.440 ten feet apart if you can. So if you can scatter them around your 303 00:21:15.480 --> 00:21:17.759 yard, certainly put them where you can enjoy them. I mean, that's 304 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:21.079 why we put feeders out right, is to enjoy seeing the birds. Speaking 305 00:21:21.119 --> 00:21:23.559 of enjoying them, it's kind of entertaining to watch them fight with each other 306 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:29.319 they dive bomb. But it's kind of sad in the other hand, because 307 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:33.000 good birds that want to drink. Oh yeah, for sure. Well though 308 00:21:33.279 --> 00:21:37.039 they're doing okay, so I mean they're but yeah, they're they're just being 309 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:40.519 very protective. But yeah, hummingbirds. You know, they can fly upside 310 00:21:40.519 --> 00:21:42.799 down, sideways, backwards, I mean, and they can go full speed 311 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:45.559 and just no time. So yeah, I mean they are. They are 312 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:49.759 a fascinating bird. So good. I hope our military is learning from how 313 00:21:49.799 --> 00:21:55.119 they fly. Then, okay, thanks very much, Yeah, Stephen, 314 00:21:55.200 --> 00:21:56.839 thank you for Hey, you're lucky Stephen to be out there and clear like, 315 00:21:56.880 --> 00:22:00.839 that's the newest wallbird store. Jeff as I that right, it is. 316 00:22:00.880 --> 00:22:03.720 So there's seven of us around town. So there's a landing page WBU 317 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.839 dot com slash Houston, and you find the find the store nearest to you. 318 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:11.519 So and you're located over on the Katie side, right. Yeah. 319 00:22:11.519 --> 00:22:15.319 So I've got two stores. I've got one up in Cyprus which is at 320 00:22:15.359 --> 00:22:18.920 Barker Cypress in two ninety and the other one is in Memorial at the Memorial 321 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:22.039 and Kirkwood intersection. Good. I think I've been in the Memorial one. 322 00:22:22.200 --> 00:22:25.039 Yeah. Yeah, I always tell folks that's right next to those tios. 323 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:27.000 Everybody knows where those tios is over there. So well, I mean, 324 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:30.960 what a good day. I mean, you go get you some good Mexican 325 00:22:30.039 --> 00:22:33.559 food and you pick up your bird supplies and everybody gets to eat. That's 326 00:22:33.640 --> 00:22:38.000 right, that's good. Hey, our phone number seven one three two one 327 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:42.880 two five eight seven four seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four 328 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:48.559 give us a call. We are visiting with rich d from Wile Birds Unlimited 329 00:22:48.599 --> 00:22:52.480 today. So you got some bird questions, let's talk about that. We've 330 00:22:52.559 --> 00:22:56.799 got the expert here to kind of direct traffic and put us in the right 331 00:22:56.839 --> 00:23:00.839 direction on anything related to birds. You know, there are a lot of 332 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:03.559 there are misconceptions out there about birds, Like we're talking about the red dye 333 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:08.039 and the hummingbird feeders and things. What would you say, Rich would be 334 00:23:08.200 --> 00:23:11.720 some of the just the basic ABC's. Maybe somebody goes, you know, 335 00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:15.519 I love my landscape. I remember thought about bringing songbirds in, you know, 336 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:19.000 because I like to talk about the fact that they visually are pretty, 337 00:23:19.039 --> 00:23:22.440 but there they add music to the air. I mean, going out in 338 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:25.680 the morning with a cup of coffee is just wonderful. So to hear the 339 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:27.079 songs of the birds. What would you say, are kind of some of 340 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:32.200 the abcs that someone should know if they would like to start moving in to 341 00:23:32.359 --> 00:23:33.400 birds. And then, by the way, I have to warn listeners, 342 00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:37.799 it's addictive. Yeah, I mean this is you know, a hummingbird feeder 343 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:41.599 is just it's the gateway drug. Okay, so it's a great addictive though 344 00:23:41.640 --> 00:23:45.759 it's a wonderful, wonderful hobby. But anyway, yeah, I mean the 345 00:23:45.839 --> 00:23:49.200 most important thing if you think about what birds need, that birds need insects, 346 00:23:49.359 --> 00:23:55.039 right, So making sure that you focus on the native plants to Texas 347 00:23:55.200 --> 00:23:59.599 is super important. We always tell folks if you want to attract chickadeese plant 348 00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:04.720 and oak tree. An oak tree is a host plant for hundreds of different 349 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:11.880 types of moths where they'll lay their eggs, which turn into pupe and caterpillars, 350 00:24:11.920 --> 00:24:15.519 which the chickadees need to feed their young. I always tell folks chickadees, 351 00:24:15.599 --> 00:24:19.200 if you have chickadees nesting in and around your house, you've got a 352 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:26.920 great habitat. Because chickadees will collect almost three hundred caterpillars a day. Let 353 00:24:26.039 --> 00:24:30.559 that to think, to feed their young. And they've got to do that 354 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:34.160 for twenty eight days, so they've got to collect about ten thousand or more 355 00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:38.559 caterpillars. And they do all of that within you know, a hundred yards 356 00:24:38.680 --> 00:24:44.079 or less of the nests. And those those caterpillars are important because as important 357 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:48.000 as like bird seed and stuff is when it's nesting time, having that those 358 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:51.480 proteins, those rich sources of food, that's really critical. I mean, 359 00:24:51.519 --> 00:24:53.440 you guys have like a dried meal, worms and products and other things we 360 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:59.039 can supplement with. But there these birds are working for you. Oh yeah, 361 00:24:59.119 --> 00:25:02.839 no, they they absolute we are. You know, backyard bird feeders 362 00:25:02.960 --> 00:25:07.920 themselves are probably only about fifteen percent of their overall diet necks, right, 363 00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:11.279 So the feeders are really for our enjoyment. It's to pull the birds into 364 00:25:11.400 --> 00:25:15.839 your yard. Now, it's also important during nesting time while the birds are 365 00:25:15.880 --> 00:25:21.160 out collecting insects to feed their young. They're coming to the feeders to feed 366 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:25.599 themselves. That's why our nesting super Blend is a great feed even right now 367 00:25:25.720 --> 00:25:29.319 while the nesting season is starting to wrap up. The high fat, the 368 00:25:29.440 --> 00:25:32.279 high protein that's in there. If you've noticed, birds are going to start 369 00:25:32.319 --> 00:25:36.039 going through their molt pretty quick. Yes, there's some pretty pretty shaggy looking 370 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:38.599 cardinals and blue jays flying around right now, and what they're doing is they're 371 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:41.200 getting rid of their old feathers. They're going to grow some new feathers to 372 00:25:41.240 --> 00:25:45.200 get themselves ready for winter. And your nesting blend is just the perfect for 373 00:25:45.319 --> 00:25:48.279 that. Yes, it's the perfect blend with the high fat, the high 374 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:52.319 protein. It'll get them through that season. We've been talking about the different 375 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:56.119 kinds of birds that even we're still nesting going on into summer. That's right 376 00:25:56.160 --> 00:25:59.119 for a good while and then hoo comes the molt season. So that's just 377 00:25:59.240 --> 00:26:02.680 a good cover you're summer, I guess yea. So having the having the 378 00:26:02.759 --> 00:26:06.240 insects in your yard, which means to have the insects, you've got to 379 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:10.880 have the native plants. If you plant exotics, then then the insects aren't 380 00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:12.920 going to come naturally and so super important. You know, Rich, I 381 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:17.759 read a book I guess a couple of years ago. I kind of lose 382 00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:22.799 track of time on that, but it was the most recent eye opening book 383 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:26.680 related to the natural world of our landscapes that I've ever read, and it 384 00:26:26.839 --> 00:26:32.200 was by Doug Talamy called Bringing Nature Home. Absolutely what you're talking about. 385 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:34.680 An oak tree has a ton of caterpillars up there in it, and they're 386 00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:37.960 not going to kill your uk tree. You may even not even notice a 387 00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:41.880 little bit of disfoliation that's happening. But how important that is for birds. 388 00:26:41.920 --> 00:26:45.200 And you've alluded to it several times talking about the importance of native plants. 389 00:26:45.759 --> 00:26:48.799 You know, we bring things in. A lot of our landscapes are from 390 00:26:48.839 --> 00:26:56.759 Asia, you know, the lagustrum and the red tip photinia is the pitosporeums 391 00:26:56.799 --> 00:26:59.240 and just a lot of things. And if you look at those, we 392 00:26:59.279 --> 00:27:02.359 don't have catipullurs all over them, no, but our native plants do. 393 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:07.000 And if you haven't read Bringing Nature Home, I would highly recommend it. 394 00:27:07.119 --> 00:27:12.559 It is an unbelievable book. There's a thing going on called Hometown National Park, 395 00:27:12.839 --> 00:27:17.279 USA. Right, Yeah, that's a dougtolomy thing. Yeah, trying 396 00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:22.400 to turn every yard into a national park. Is that while we look at 397 00:27:22.440 --> 00:27:26.680 the mass of our natural parks, which they're great, right, our national 398 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:30.240 parks all over the US. The ideas that you know, the the Audubon 399 00:27:30.440 --> 00:27:37.240 or Cornell had estimated we'd lost three or four billion birds since the late seventies, 400 00:27:37.599 --> 00:27:40.319 and a lot of that has to do with land sprawl, development things 401 00:27:40.359 --> 00:27:45.200 like that, losing habitat and the ideas to not you know, I just 402 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:47.839 don't want people to freak out and think, oh my god, what have 403 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:51.160 we done. Start in your own yard. Start with you and your neighbors. 404 00:27:51.200 --> 00:27:55.279 Start with your neighborhood. And if everybody takes these things into account, 405 00:27:55.359 --> 00:28:00.440 and you you think about planting for the nature in your area, because what 406 00:28:00.599 --> 00:28:03.319 we do here is going to be different than it is in Austin and it 407 00:28:03.480 --> 00:28:07.039 is in Dallas, right right, But everybody's got their native plants, and 408 00:28:07.160 --> 00:28:10.720 so yeah, start start in your own yard instead. A good example that 409 00:28:11.400 --> 00:28:14.200 is great. We're gonna take a break here in just a little bit. 410 00:28:14.440 --> 00:28:18.640 Our phone number though is seven one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. 411 00:28:19.039 --> 00:28:22.799 You know, I know you as a listener a garden Line. I 412 00:28:22.960 --> 00:28:26.599 just believe that we have a lot of compassion, of people that care about 413 00:28:26.640 --> 00:28:30.400 other people that listen to the show, and of all the causes that are 414 00:28:30.480 --> 00:28:33.200 out there, one that just really hits home to me. As a Star 415 00:28:33.240 --> 00:28:37.119 of Hope mission here in the Houston area. Star of hopes have been around 416 00:28:37.160 --> 00:28:41.160 a long time. I mean it was several decades ago my wife and I 417 00:28:41.319 --> 00:28:45.680 first volunteered at a Star of Hope mission. They make a difference. You 418 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:48.359 know, it's one thing to hand somebody on the corner who's panhandling a few 419 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:52.039 bucks to get by. 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The number seven one three two to fifty eight seventy four 437 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:11.480 in all the Days Long song, all the little Birds on Deep Birds Steet, 438 00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:18.400 don't do it. The Robin Gold tweet tweet good Sunday morning. Appropriate 439 00:30:18.599 --> 00:30:22.119 music for today. We're visiting with Rich Eat from wild Birds Unlimited about all 440 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:26.079 things birds. If you'd like to give us a call seven one three two 441 00:30:26.160 --> 00:30:29.680 one two five eight seven four And we are not going to waste time and 442 00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:33.160 go straight out to the NASA area and talk to Matt. Good morning, 443 00:30:33.200 --> 00:30:37.799 Matt. What's your question? Hi, good morning guys. UM. I 444 00:30:37.960 --> 00:30:41.759 was living down in Corpus for quite a while and there were some really bright 445 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:47.559 green colored humming birds, almost a metallic or iridescent color, and I haven't 446 00:30:47.559 --> 00:30:51.440 seen them here in the Houston area to sitting it was a different species, 447 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:56.039 or yeah, to Houston it is. It's called the buff bellied hummingbird UM 448 00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:00.759 and they're they're very common in South Texas. They're in the Yary freeze. 449 00:31:00.799 --> 00:31:04.559 A few years ago, I actually had a buff bellies show up in my 450 00:31:04.680 --> 00:31:08.599 backyard. Oddly enough, he was knocked off course a little bit, I 451 00:31:08.720 --> 00:31:12.240 think, But yeah, the buff bellies are pretty common down in that area, 452 00:31:12.640 --> 00:31:15.559 and they're they're a beautiful bird, very they're they're a bigger bird. 453 00:31:15.880 --> 00:31:19.480 And yeah, they've got that real dark green, metallic look to them. 454 00:31:22.039 --> 00:31:23.400 Okay, Yeah, this was kind of curious. I tried to look it 455 00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:26.480 up on my own and I wasn't able to. Yeah. Yeah, well, 456 00:31:26.519 --> 00:31:30.720 we mostly get here are ruby throated humming birds. Those are going to 457 00:31:30.759 --> 00:31:33.839 be the birds that are migrating through UM but also in the winter. We 458 00:31:33.880 --> 00:31:37.799 always encourage folks too. After the ruby throated of left. And by the 459 00:31:37.839 --> 00:31:41.400 way, there's another myth out there that says you have to take your feeders 460 00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:45.599 down. Other words, otherwise the birds won't migrate. It's not true the 461 00:31:45.680 --> 00:31:48.319 birds. The birds are on their own clock, so they're gonna leave when 462 00:31:48.319 --> 00:31:53.119 it's time to leave. But I encourage folks to leave one small feeder out 463 00:31:53.799 --> 00:31:59.640 all the way through the holidays because we get rufous hummingbirds that will winter here. 464 00:31:59.759 --> 00:32:04.559 So those birds are up in the Pacific Northwest, up in the Oregon, 465 00:32:04.799 --> 00:32:07.960 Washington, up into Canada. That's their breeding ground. And then when 466 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:12.480 they migrate, they'll go down the west coast. They won't cross the rockies, 467 00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:15.920 they'll follow the coast lying down and then once they get down to the 468 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:20.200 desert southwest, some will peel off and head up the Gulf coast and winter 469 00:32:20.319 --> 00:32:23.359 here in the winter. So yeah, so keep one. I keep one 470 00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:29.160 small, like a four ounce feeder out and if you get one, you'll 471 00:32:29.200 --> 00:32:31.759 notice that the nectar will start dropping because they're they're they're a little bit more 472 00:32:31.799 --> 00:32:37.039 shy and they'll be on their own so um, but not uncommon for folks 473 00:32:37.039 --> 00:32:40.000 to have roof of humming birds all winter. Nice hey, thank you for 474 00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:45.119 the question, Matt, I appreciate that that was good. Good to know, 475 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:49.079 good to think about. Let's head out now to the gallery area and 476 00:32:49.400 --> 00:32:52.440 we are going to talk to Paula. Hello, Paula, Hi, good 477 00:32:52.519 --> 00:33:00.000 morning. I have excuse me and enclosed since then patio and have a bird 478 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:09.039 bath and a fountain, and I cannot attract birds or eating or butterflies or 479 00:33:09.079 --> 00:33:15.359 eating beans. I'm growing really right now. The only thing I have blooming 480 00:33:15.640 --> 00:33:22.240 are mandavilla. But I don't but no birds. Is it because my sense 481 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:25.319 is too high? I mean, can they not see or smell or however 482 00:33:25.440 --> 00:33:30.960 they detect water and food? Well, you know it. Probably I could 483 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:34.400 probably help you a little better if if you were you could send me a 484 00:33:34.640 --> 00:33:37.920 picture of your backyard. Send it to my email at at Houston, t 485 00:33:38.240 --> 00:33:45.000 x WBU at aol dot com. Let me see it. I think a 486 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:49.680 lot of it just comes down to is there something in your yard that's entrusting 487 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.720 to the birds? They'll find it um So I think it's a matter of 488 00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:57.799 it's like anything, right. So when folks put up a brand new feeder 489 00:33:57.920 --> 00:34:00.400 for the very first time, they some will call me in a couple of 490 00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:04.519 days and say it's not working. The birds aren't coming to my feeder. 491 00:34:04.759 --> 00:34:08.679 It's gonna take time, right, So when folks put up feeders for the 492 00:34:08.719 --> 00:34:12.239 first time, sometimes you've got to give it a month or so for the 493 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:15.559 birds to really find it. Birds are like people. They're they're creatures of 494 00:34:15.639 --> 00:34:20.239 habit and they've got a forage pattern that they go through. Uh. And 495 00:34:20.400 --> 00:34:24.519 so really it's a matter of your yard getting on a bird's forage pattern. 496 00:34:25.079 --> 00:34:29.599 If you've got something interesting back there, the water is a great start, 497 00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:35.679 and sometimes you can put things out like a little yellow or little yellow flags 498 00:34:35.760 --> 00:34:38.840 tom that wave in the wind. Birds are kind of nosy, and so 499 00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:43.599 if they see something like that, they may come see what that's all about. 500 00:34:44.760 --> 00:34:47.119 But that's sometimes it's just difficult, and you got to give a time. 501 00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:52.000 I don't know how long you've had your mandavilla in your water in your 502 00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:54.119 backyard. But again, it really it just takes time. Do you have 503 00:34:54.199 --> 00:34:59.519 a lot of trees or no? H no, No. I live in 504 00:34:59.639 --> 00:35:05.280 a townhouse and so I'm basically I'm surrounded by other fence, you know, 505 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.800 other fenced in patios right right, So I would I would submit it's just 506 00:35:09.400 --> 00:35:14.320 you know, my my mother she lived in an apartment for twenty years on 507 00:35:14.400 --> 00:35:16.800 the ground floor. And I would have never guessed in a million years that 508 00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:21.239 she would attract birds to her patio because she backed up to a parking lot. 509 00:35:21.840 --> 00:35:24.480 But what she ended up doing is she put out it's called a seed 510 00:35:24.599 --> 00:35:29.840 cylinder feeder, so it's just a block of seed and she puts we put 511 00:35:29.920 --> 00:35:34.199 safflower out there for her because the grackles won't eat it. Um. But 512 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:39.440 she attracted cardinals and chickadees and wrens and house finches right to her backyard, 513 00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:44.360 right on the parking lot of an apartment building. And she did it while 514 00:35:44.920 --> 00:35:47.360 Yeah, and the hummingbirds coming out as well with that, Manda Villa, 515 00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:52.000 I wouldn't be surprised if the hummingbirds find that. So you might think about 516 00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:54.360 putting a hummingbird feeder out as well in the next week or two. Okay, 517 00:35:54.840 --> 00:35:58.719 okay, perfect, all right, thank you so much. That is 518 00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:00.519 great information. Thank you very much. We're going to go to Sharon in 519 00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:04.000 West Chase. Hey, Sharon, we got about a minute till break. 520 00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:08.079 How can we help hey, I wouldn't would you please go over again? 521 00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:14.000 Just the list of the flowers, flowers that attract the hummingbirds. And there's 522 00:36:14.039 --> 00:36:15.760 a flower that I remember, but I can't think of the name. And 523 00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:22.760 it has orange, bright orange blossoms on it, and I used to have 524 00:36:22.960 --> 00:36:28.000 those, but maybe I don't have them anymore. Well, the orange could 525 00:36:28.039 --> 00:36:30.079 have been like trumpet creeper, that's one that they may go to. No, 526 00:36:30.199 --> 00:36:34.239 it was something like fire. It had another name like fire in it, 527 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:42.639 firebush. Firebush. Amelia pattens is heat tolerant, and it has these 528 00:36:42.719 --> 00:36:45.559 tubular red orange flowers kind of have a little yellow loop that they like. 529 00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:51.159 And you said Amelia. Is that what you said? Amelia patterns pat Amelia. 530 00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:52.320 That's the name I remember. Yeah, okay, yeah, I tell 531 00:36:52.320 --> 00:36:55.639 you another that And it did attract the hummingbird, Yeah it does, it 532 00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:00.320 does. And we got so many flowers that we should be growing here that 533 00:37:00.400 --> 00:37:02.800 we can. Yeah, at please we view the flowers again. And also 534 00:37:02.920 --> 00:37:07.119 I just wanted to say that I attract the cardinals by going out in the 535 00:37:07.119 --> 00:37:14.960 afternoon later when it's not quite sublazing hot into water in my patio area with 536 00:37:15.119 --> 00:37:17.639 a I have a spray nozzle and it'll shoot far up in the air, 537 00:37:17.760 --> 00:37:22.119 so I'll put it. I'll shoot it up in the air and it'll fall 538 00:37:22.280 --> 00:37:25.360 back down through my trees like I've got lugustrium and holly and everything that have 539 00:37:25.480 --> 00:37:31.239 grown into trees. And the cardinals would just come flying in and I'll hear 540 00:37:31.280 --> 00:37:37.239 them. They'll start tweeting and and they love to just get inside the foliage 541 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:43.199 and flutter their wings and bathe in the in the water. They love sound 542 00:37:43.360 --> 00:37:45.239 like a dog. And I go outside, they hear us come out, 543 00:37:45.599 --> 00:37:49.599 and they'll fly in and wait for me to turn on the hose. That's 544 00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:52.880 good. Sounds like the word on the street with the birds as Sharon's places 545 00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:55.400 a place to go hang out. My neighbors have oaks too. We all 546 00:37:55.440 --> 00:37:59.920 have trees, so we have a little bit of a sanctuary circle around. 547 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:01.840 Well, Sharon, thank you for the call. I appreciate that we're gonna 548 00:38:01.840 --> 00:38:06.119 have to take a break here. We're talking with rich Ed from wild Birds 549 00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:08.440 Unlimited. We'll be right back after break. Our phone number seven one three 550 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:13.119 two one two fifty eight seventy four and Joan, you'll be first up when 551 00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:30.760 we come back. Well, you are listening to garden Line. I'm your 552 00:38:30.800 --> 00:38:34.880 host, Skip Richter, and we are with rich Ed from wild Birds Unlimited. 553 00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:37.440 Wildbirds Unlimited. There's seven stores across the Houston area. Just go to 554 00:38:37.760 --> 00:38:44.239 WBU dot com forward slash Houston and you can find all the wild birds right 555 00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:47.679 here. And we've been talking all kinds of things birds today, and the 556 00:38:47.840 --> 00:38:51.679 last couple of callers we were talking about some plants that they might like. 557 00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:54.119 And you know, there are long lists of plants that hummingbirds like, but 558 00:38:54.239 --> 00:38:58.840 one that I've noticed in my yard that they just love are a lot of 559 00:38:58.920 --> 00:39:04.199 the salvia's. There's a salvia called Salvia gara nitica. Sometimes it's called a 560 00:39:04.320 --> 00:39:08.039 nie scented sage. Sometimes it's called hummingbird saite. That's another colloquial name for 561 00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:13.239 it, but it reminds me of something rich. Then we were talking about 562 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.119 during break that it doesn't have to be a red tubular flower for a hummingbird 563 00:39:16.159 --> 00:39:19.679 to be interested in it. A lot of these blue, purple and other 564 00:39:19.760 --> 00:39:23.119 salvias are really popular. Absolutely, yeah, No, I've got purple salvia 565 00:39:23.239 --> 00:39:28.119 in my backyard in front yard and they love that stuff. And again, 566 00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:34.320 remember while it can be a nectar bearing plant that it's important they're also harvesting 567 00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:39.239 spiders and mosquitoes and gnats. They're eating a lot of insects. Okay, 568 00:39:39.320 --> 00:39:43.360 So it's anything that will host these little insects, they're gonna love it. 569 00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:47.199 So yep, that's nice. That is good to remember. They aren't just 570 00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:52.400 entertaining our eyes. They are actually helping us with the oil mosquitoes. Boy, 571 00:39:52.440 --> 00:39:57.119 we could use a few less mosquitoes around the Grem area, that's for 572 00:39:57.239 --> 00:40:00.320 sure. Hey, there's some events coming up. Who are regarding h birds? 573 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:01.400 Will you tell me a little more about Yeah, for sure. So 574 00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:06.280 everybody loves hummingbirds, I mean, by far the most popular bird. When 575 00:40:06.320 --> 00:40:09.280 we get to the season, our customers certainly get really excited. But we 576 00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:15.360 wanted to make sure everybody were aware of three pretty big events in our area. 577 00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:20.360 And they're all in September. September ninth, there's a hummingbird festival at 578 00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:23.639 club Woods, which is a Harris County park. It's up at twenty nine 579 00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:28.639 twenty in Mushki. If you've never been to Clubwoods, highly encourage you to 580 00:40:28.719 --> 00:40:31.280 go. It's a beautiful old homestead home by the name of the guy was 581 00:40:31.360 --> 00:40:37.199 club Wood, and it's beautiful year round. But they will have a hummingbird 582 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:43.119 festival on Saturday, September ninth. They'll do the hummingbird banding. An interesting 583 00:40:43.199 --> 00:40:46.400 note on that people wonder if hummingbirds came back to the same place every year 584 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:52.559 they captured the same female Rufus hummingbird, like seven years in a row after 585 00:40:52.679 --> 00:40:55.840 they banded it. So they banded it, and then subsequently seven years in 586 00:40:55.920 --> 00:41:01.239 a row they captured the same bird and checked the band So that's a really 587 00:41:01.320 --> 00:41:06.239 good one. There's another one that will be down Everybody probably knows about the 588 00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:09.760 Rockport Festival that's down at Rockport, Texas. That's from the fourteenth to the 589 00:41:09.880 --> 00:41:15.559 seventeenth. That's a huge festival and they've got all kinds of stuff going on. 590 00:41:15.760 --> 00:41:19.360 It's a nice easy drive down there. Strongly encourage you to go. 591 00:41:19.559 --> 00:41:22.719 They have personal homes that are on a walking tour. There's a lady. 592 00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:27.440 The word I got one time is that she'll go through forty pounds of sugar 593 00:41:27.519 --> 00:41:30.800 a week feeding humming birds because it's a big staging area for the birds getting 594 00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:35.639 ready to head back across the Gulf of Mexico. So the Rockport Festival is 595 00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:39.480 awesome. That's the fourteenth through the seventeenth of September. And then a little 596 00:41:39.480 --> 00:41:45.000 bit closer to home then is Lake Jackson. The Gulf Coast Bird Observatory right 597 00:41:45.079 --> 00:41:49.440 down there on the coast, just outside Lake Jackson. They're gonna have it 598 00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:53.239 on two Saturdays, September sixteenth and September twenty third, and that's going to 599 00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:58.440 be from eight in the morning till noon of those two saturdays. And again 600 00:41:58.719 --> 00:42:01.559 it's a place to go see the birds and they'll be doing banding and things 601 00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:06.000 like that. And if you've never been to Gulf Coast Birding Observatory, you 602 00:42:06.039 --> 00:42:07.559 can go back and look at our Facebook page. Back in April, we 603 00:42:08.280 --> 00:42:14.440 saw some beautiful migratory birds come through there this last spring. Red tanagers, 604 00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:21.840 Baltimore orioles, walnut chested warblers are sited. So yeah, so if you've 605 00:42:21.880 --> 00:42:24.360 never been another, it's really easy drive down there. It's not a huge 606 00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:28.360 place, so you can walk around, but it's beautiful. You can get 607 00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:30.880 some good pictures as well. You know, as you're getting into being interested 608 00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:36.119 in birds and bringing them to your backyard, it's good to have good resources 609 00:42:36.159 --> 00:42:40.280 to learn more about them in rich your Wallbird websites are just just awesome for 610 00:42:40.480 --> 00:42:44.920 providing information, but also when you walk in a store, you got people 611 00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:47.480 helping you that really know what they're talking about, and then kind of direct 612 00:42:47.559 --> 00:42:51.840 you. Absolutely. Yeah, no, all our all of our team members 613 00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:55.719 go through what we called a certified bird feeding Specialist program, so they'll ask 614 00:42:55.800 --> 00:42:59.880 you the questions. If you've got a particular problem you want to get solved, 615 00:43:00.159 --> 00:43:01.960 uh, tell us what you're trying to figure out, or if you're 616 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:06.639 just getting into the hobby, we can we can help you every step of 617 00:43:06.719 --> 00:43:08.639 the way. And if you're trying to solve a problem, like one of 618 00:43:08.679 --> 00:43:13.559 the earlier callers, pictures always help. If you've got a particular problem you 619 00:43:13.639 --> 00:43:15.360 want to solve, we can take a look at that and make some recommendations. 620 00:43:15.480 --> 00:43:20.039 That's good, that's good information. Uh. And plus you know, 621 00:43:20.159 --> 00:43:24.119 I coming from not knowing about birds. I had I have had a long 622 00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:28.960 educational process. I got a long way to go still. But one of 623 00:43:29.000 --> 00:43:30.199 the thing is, you know, you see bird seed for sale everywhere, 624 00:43:30.280 --> 00:43:35.599 and it's full of those little red babies. And when you when you look 625 00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:37.400 at it, you go, oh, that's cheap bird seed. I can 626 00:43:37.880 --> 00:43:42.119 afford that. And and then you bring it back and you realize birds don't 627 00:43:42.159 --> 00:43:45.480 really like to eat those little red babies. They're hard and they're you know, 628 00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:49.559 they get kicked out on the ground till they finally maybe some doves drop 629 00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:53.360 down there because they're starving or right, But you guys have seed that's directed 630 00:43:53.519 --> 00:43:57.480 for different times of the year, different kinds of birds, different goals. 631 00:43:57.559 --> 00:44:01.079 And you also have the meth free seeds, that's right. So instead of 632 00:44:01.360 --> 00:44:05.480 you know, breaking up the black oall sunflower or whatever and dropping the shells 633 00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:07.880 everywhere, right, you can get just go to the straight seed. I 634 00:44:07.920 --> 00:44:10.039 have your staff flower seed that's like that that I'm using my feeders right now. 635 00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:14.280 Yeah, so that's our no mess blend and so yeah, So you 636 00:44:14.400 --> 00:44:16.599 know, as much as we would love to sell everybody all their bird seed 637 00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:22.239 all the time, we realize you're gonna buy elsewhere. I just encourage folks 638 00:44:22.239 --> 00:44:24.159 if they're buying a songbird blend of any kind, if you look at the 639 00:44:24.400 --> 00:44:30.920 ingredients and you see corn, milow, wheat, those are ingredients that birds 640 00:44:31.000 --> 00:44:35.840 absolutely positively will not eat. They're going to kick it to the ground and 641 00:44:36.000 --> 00:44:38.920 so everything. And we have no cereal fillers in our feed like, we 642 00:44:39.039 --> 00:44:44.719 get seed in every week so it's fresh and so yeah, and we've got 643 00:44:44.840 --> 00:44:49.480 different blends and different types of seeds to target specific things that you that you 644 00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:52.840 want to feed well. And I think the point too that I'm making is 645 00:44:52.400 --> 00:44:57.159 you may look at something and think, well, that's that's a good price 646 00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:01.719 on bird seed, but when what half of it is getting not eaten, 647 00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:05.079 that's right? Is that a good price on bird seed or not, You're 648 00:45:05.199 --> 00:45:07.280 you're doubling what it costs you essentially, you know, and I know it's 649 00:45:07.320 --> 00:45:09.920 exactly. I think it's even like up to seventy percent. It can be 650 00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:13.800 up to seventy percent for sure, And so yeah, the birds are gonna 651 00:45:13.840 --> 00:45:15.280 kick it to the ground, and then with that laying on the ground, 652 00:45:15.320 --> 00:45:21.000 you're going to attract probably some some things that you're not interested in seeing as 653 00:45:21.039 --> 00:45:23.800 well. So the no masses are great because it's there's no shell moss on 654 00:45:23.880 --> 00:45:28.360 the ground. One hundred percent of the seed that's in the bag is edible, 655 00:45:29.119 --> 00:45:31.719 and it's highly improbable that it will germinate as well, so you're not 656 00:45:31.800 --> 00:45:36.320 going to get some flower seeds popping up under your feeders in your yards. 657 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:38.519 So it's a nice tidy way of feeding your birds. Yeah, And I'd 658 00:45:38.599 --> 00:45:43.760 noticed in the past when I first was going and using a cheap bird seed, 659 00:45:44.880 --> 00:45:47.079 you would just watch the bird seed level just drop real fast, that's 660 00:45:47.159 --> 00:45:50.039 right. And then you look in the feeder and it's like, oh, 661 00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:52.360 I said, the red babies the milo you're talking about, right, corn, 662 00:45:52.840 --> 00:45:57.280 and and they're just basically going through it trying to find stuff they can 663 00:45:57.360 --> 00:46:00.039 eat, right whereas I put out the sapphire thing, and my gosh, 664 00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:04.760 the birds are there all the time. But the level is dropping very slowly, 665 00:46:05.360 --> 00:46:07.119 not putting out as much feed. Yeah. I convinced the guy one 666 00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:10.599 time. He came in and said he insisted on buying this cheap blend at 667 00:46:10.679 --> 00:46:14.559 a at a box store. He said, ooh, they just love it. 668 00:46:14.639 --> 00:46:16.559 They ripped through it, and so you know, I told him, 669 00:46:16.599 --> 00:46:20.360 I said, I said, do me a favor, try a five pound 670 00:46:20.440 --> 00:46:23.159 bag of the snow mouse, and then you tell me what the difference is. 671 00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:28.920 And he converted to a full time bird seed customer because he realized all 672 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:30.320 of it was going to the ground. There you go, there you go. 673 00:46:30.519 --> 00:46:32.800 That's that's a good point. Hey, we're going to head out to 674 00:46:32.880 --> 00:46:37.199 Waller now, Joan, thanks for waiting. What kind of question can we 675 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:39.840 help you with today? Yes, yes, good morning gentlemen. And I'm 676 00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:44.079 a first time caller. So I appreciate being able to get in well. 677 00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:47.559 Thank you. We have acreage and waller on that acreage. We do have 678 00:46:47.800 --> 00:46:52.519 an egg wildlife exemption because we do feed the birds. We take care of 679 00:46:52.599 --> 00:46:58.840 the birds every year. We have a private company either do a winter birds 680 00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:02.199 survey or a breeding bird survey in the springtime. And you're right, the 681 00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:07.280 populations are declining, both in terms of sure numbers of the birds and species. 682 00:47:07.719 --> 00:47:12.159 But my question today is related to a property that we've owned for the 683 00:47:12.280 --> 00:47:15.960 last eight years in Georgetown, Texas, because it's in a restricted fifty five 684 00:47:16.039 --> 00:47:22.000 plus community which shall remain nameless for now. And to make long story short, 685 00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:29.079 I've tried for eight years doing the organics with the corn gluten fertilizer, 686 00:47:29.280 --> 00:47:32.519 no pesticides, despite our neighbors on all sides, you know, having the 687 00:47:32.639 --> 00:47:37.719 landscape companies that pour on the pesticides and the herbicides as well. But during 688 00:47:37.760 --> 00:47:42.320 those eight years, I had violets that came up, I had dandelions, 689 00:47:42.880 --> 00:47:45.719 I had what my mom used to call digitalis, which I think is like 690 00:47:46.039 --> 00:47:51.800 called a liar back something. And we had hummingbirds and also had blue bonnets 691 00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:55.719 that escape from the flower beds onto the lot itself, and one of the 692 00:47:55.800 --> 00:48:00.960 things was this particular h well it's called a sea. It's not an hoa 693 00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:05.360 yet. But they allowed the blue bonnets, which was great because we also 694 00:48:05.440 --> 00:48:10.079 had butterflies as well as birds, blue blue birds. We even had woodpecker 695 00:48:10.199 --> 00:48:14.639 that tried to make a home out of our porch post, so that was 696 00:48:14.760 --> 00:48:17.000 kind of discouraged by us. Say Joan, I wish, I wish we 697 00:48:17.079 --> 00:48:21.719 had another hour because this is sounding fun, but we actually have about fifteen 698 00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:24.440 seconds left. So to make a long story short, I've had to go 699 00:48:24.639 --> 00:48:29.920 now with chemicals and we're not seeing the birds because the h or the CIA 700 00:48:30.119 --> 00:48:34.920 was going to start giving me violations. And I guess it's just a question. 701 00:48:35.039 --> 00:48:38.199 Is it a matter of time before the politics of the world change and 702 00:48:38.280 --> 00:48:43.199 allowed people to have native All right, well, we're gonna we're gonna go 703 00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:45.119 to break here. We'll come back. Maybe I'll have a comment or so 704 00:48:45.320 --> 00:48:49.199 on that. Thank you so much, Rich for being with us today. 705 00:48:49.280 --> 00:48:52.760 Rich Edie from wild Birds Unlimited. Go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston 706 00:48:52.920 --> 00:48:54.760 for more information. Thank you, byebye.