We’re passionate about birds and nature. That’s why we opened a Wild Birds Unlimited Nature Shop in our community.
9887 Montgomery Road
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Phone: (513) 891-2199
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Store Hours:
Mon - Fri: 10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Sat: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Sun: 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
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We are passionate about feeding birds and creating backyard habitat at our home in Cincinnati, let us share our enthusiasm with you!
10/27/08
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8/6/08
August is here and birdfeeding is wonderful! I love summer time feeding, possibly because I can enjoy my birds and backyard for longer hours in the summer. As exciting and rewarding birdfeeding is in the fall and winter, feeding birds in August is awesome!
Hummingbird fledglings are out and about searching for sweet nectar and small flying insects. Activity at our seven hummingbird feeders has tripled overnight and this is the time of year I begin putting feeders up all around our porch. The hummingbirds have not dissapointed this year as the adult males chase their competition (and sometimes their own babies) back and forth. There is nothing better than hummingbirds in August, add another feeder or two and enjoy the backyard mayhem.
We have been field testing bark butter over the past five weeks and our birds (especillay woodpeckers) have developed a liking to this spreadable peanut treat! There is almost always a bird out there eating it. Bark Butter is almost as popular as mealworms in our yard! Try some today, you will be impressed!
Baby birds galore this summer. Our bird population is doubling this summer and birds continue to keep on mating. We know that our Goldfinches are the last birds to nest in the Summer time. Goldfinches are now pairing up and courting their mates as they prepare to nest over the next 4 weeks. However, birds like Carolina Wrens and Carolina Chickadees which start nesting as early as March are still searching for possible nesting sites after several broods hatched already. We have a pair of Carolina Wrens which are persistent that they nest in a hanging flower pot in the garage. After chasing them out of the garage for three days straight, I may just open a window and let them do as the wish. We should have a great flock of birds heading into the Fall.
Check Out the pictures I took in the backyard yesterday! Do you take pictures of your birds? Is there one or two that you are proud of? E-mail them to me and we will start posting them on this website.
Hope you are all enjoying your summer as much as the "Happy" Gilmores out here in Batavia! We look forward to seeing you in the store soon and showing you the progress that we have made on the renovation and expansion.
Great Birding!
Brett :)
July 25, 2008
With construction in the expanded area of the store well underway and a new store sign installed last Friday, I find myself very busy with expansion and remodeling of your Wild Birds Unlimited. I have found much needed solice in the backyard this past month.
Our backyard is full of song (Carolina and House Wren, American Goldfinch, Northern Cardinal, Wood Thrush, Eastern Towhee, Catbird and Brown Thrasher). Not to mention the constant squaking of red-bellied woodpeckers, Blue Jays, Grackles, Titmice and the neighborhood Pileated.
July 2008 has filled my backyard with more baby birds than I can ever remember. Blue Jays, Red-bellied Woodpeckers, House Wrens, Robins, Chickadees and titmice. Hummingbirds have become much more common at the feeders and the dueling and chasing have begun. I suspect I have at least two nesting pairs with one nest of fledglings out and about already. Goldfinch activity is increasing. Our current population fluctuates from 30 to 50 birds (3 finches at the store are becoming regular all day visitors) and with Goldfinch nesting about to begin, I look forward to those numbers tripling into September.
I have been product testing a new exclusive WBU birdfood in the backyard called "Jim's Birdacious Bark Butter". Bark Butter is a spreadable non-melt suet that you put right on the bark of a tree. So far, the woodpeckers, thrashers, Blue Jays and catbirds love it! Steve Maslowski will be out in the next week or so to get some promotional video of our birds enjoying bark butter, ask for it the next time you are in the store!
Naturally Yours,
Brett
July 1, 2008
I have spent the day working outside on the patio and the bird activity in our Batavia backyard has been extremely active all day, which has not been the case the past two months. We have had the perfect Spring. Lots of rain and seasonal temperatures equal beautiful flowers and lots of bugs (not to mention cicadas). Spring has been bountiful this year and it is healthy for our backyard birds to partake in nature's bounty. Today, my backyard is full of diverse species singing their hearts out (still!) and feeding their 1st or 2nd round of babies and looking to do it again.
I can still hear the occasional cicada but that was last months feast. Today's feast is a picture of peanuts, nyjer (thistle), suet dough, Choice Clend, Seed Cylinders and lots of mealworms. Mealworms are always the popular treat and every bird in the yard minus goldfinches, mourning doves, and hummingbirds eat them. I feed them especially for the wrens, robins, catbirds, thrashers and anyone else that shows up. I have had many warbler speices eat them and have been able to coax a wood thrush from the woods with them before.
Coolest thing in the yard today was a male Indigo Bunting, flitting from feeder to feeder. We have been seeing the female alot this summer but the male is always a treat. I love the Summer birds. Hummingbirds of course but the chorus of Grey Catbirds, House Wrens, Brown Thrashers, Wood Thrush with our year round resident chickadees, titmice, cardinals, towhees and goldfinches is music to my ears and makes me so happy that we have followed our passion in the family business.
Have a wonderful July and please stop by the store often!
Naturally Yours,
Brett
Birds in the Yard Today (7/1/08)
1.) Red-bellied Woodpecker (pair)
2.) Blue Jay (20+)
3.) Mourning Dove (20+)
4.) Northern Cardinal (5-10)
5.) Downy Woodpecker (10+)
6.) Brown Thrasher (4)
7.) Tufted Titmouse (6+)
8.) Carolina Chickadee
9.) White-breasted Nuthatch
10.) Carolina Wren
11.) Grey Catbird (6+)
12.) American Robin (20+)
13.) House Wren
14.) Indigo Bunting
15.) Song Sparrow
16.) Chipping Sparrow
17.) American Goldfinch (30+)
18.) Common Grackle
19.) Wood Thrush
20.) Hairy Woodpecker (a juvenile Hairy Woodpecker! note: all red on top of head, same with Downy Woodpecker)
21.) House Finch
22.) juvenile Cowbirds
23.) Eastern Towhee
24.) Chimney Swifts
25.) Cooper's Hawk
26.) Ruby-throated Hummingbird
