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By JANE BANGLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Bird feeding is a hobby that allows a person to watch nature while he or she contributes to helping a part of nature live a healthy life.
Some people who feed birds think about the best ways to feed and what sorts of mixes the birds will like better, and others approach the hobby more casually. How and what the birds are fed is important to consider, though.
In The Backyard Naturalist column, Craig Tufts writes that different seed mixes will attract different birds. To attract birds like cardinals, juncos and sparrows seed mixes with “proso millets (small white or red beady seeds) and sunflow'er seeds as well as some peanut kernels and fine cracked com” are needed.
A local bird feeder, Clarissa Velasquez, provides wild bird feed and sunflower seeds for her bird visitors. She said that this combination attracts many kinds of birds.
“We see finches, chickadees, nut hatches, woodpeckers, cardinals, juncos, sparrows, cat birds and other kinds,” Velasquez said, “We also keep water available for them close by, which is very important.” She identifies the different birds by using a book of birds that she keeps handy.
Velasquez feeds the birds in bird houses hanging from a tree and on the
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