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Shortly after moving into our house, I decided to get a small thistle seed bird feeder, to attract birds to our yard. We had the feeder out and usually kept it full for almost a year, and attracted plenty of finches and sparrows.

I mentioned to my mother how it seemed like those were the only birds we got in the cities. I never saw cardinals, bluejays, chickadees, or nuthatches. She suggested I get a sunflower seed feeder, and said it would attract more birds. Since my parents have several feeders out year round, and plenty of birds to go with, I asked if they had any that they didn't use on account of squirrels and they gave me one that had been sitting out in the garage. We hung it up in our back yard and filled it with sunflower seeds and waited.

It has been two weeks, and now we have a variety of birds I didn't see before. Purple finches, way more gold finches, cardinals, and a mourning dove have all become frequent visitors.

With this success, I'm tempted to get a suet feeder, and make some vegan suet, as well as a humming bird feeder, and possibly a mixed seed feeder. I would also like to get a bird bath and see if that attracts even more birds.