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How to Attract Chickadees

Lots of people will tell you that chickadees are their favorite feeder birds. They are easily attracted, and can often be hand-tamed. Cheerful as a Christmas card, chickadees are versatile acrobats who can either perch or hang upside-down to glean seeds from your feeder.

Things You'll Need

Shelled peanuts
Suet
Nesting box
Birdseed
Peanut butter
Black-oil sunflower seed
Bird feeder
Suet feeder

Instructions

- 1
  Plant trees and bushes that attract chickadees. Depending on the species in your area, these can include pine, hemlock and birch trees, and berry-bearing plants.
- 2
  Buy a bird feeder. Because chickadees are so physically versatile, you can use tube, domed, satellite, hopper or platform feeders with equal success.
- 3
  Fill the feeders with black-oil sunflower seeds or shelled peanuts.
- 4
  Put up a suet feeder, or hang pieces of suet in a mesh bag from a tree branch.
- 5
  Make a mix of peanut butter and birdseed and spread it on a tree limb or make "cakes" to hang in a mesh bag.
- 6
  Put up a chickadee nesting box in the spring. Make sure it has the exact dimensions specified for a chickadee.

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